Professor Paul Makeham is Head of the School of Media, Entertainment and Creative Arts in the Creative Industries Faculty at QUT. He has previously been Head of Drama, and from 2002 to 2006, was Course Coordinator of the Bachelor of Creative Industries, the world’s first Bachelor program of its type.

His PhD study of discourses of landscape in Australian drama was completed at the University of Newcastle, Australia, in 1996. He publishes internationally on a range of theatre and performance-related topics, and is Chair of the Board of La Boite Theatre. Paul is also a past President of ADSA, the Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies. For eight years (2004-2011), he was a Chief Investigator on the ARC-funded AusStage project.

Paul has an extensive record as a producer, writer, presenter and performer. He leads a range of commercial consultancies which incorporate Applied Theatre techniques. Typically this work has a training and professional development focus, and it implements an original Applied Theatre model termed a ‘Prophetical’. Commissioning clients include Queensland Health, the Queensland Government, the former Carrick Institute, and numerous clients within QUT and externally.

For more details about his experience and publications please refer to http://staff.qut.edu.au/staff/makeham/