Giuliano Campo
  • Northlands Road, Magee Campus

    BT48 7JL Londonderry

    United Kingdom

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Biography

About

Giuliano Campo is a performer, director, author, and Lecturer in Drama at Ulster University (UK). He pursued his international doctoral research on Simone Weil and Theatre in Rome and Paris, and trained with the founding members of ISTA, the International School of Theatre Anthropology, directed by Eugenio Barba. He collaborated for several years with Jerzy Grotowski’s Teatr Laboratorium actors Zygmunt Molik and Rena Mirecka, and published the books Zygmunt Molik’s Voice and Body Work: The Legacy of Jerzy Grotowski (2010) with Routledge, translated into multiple languages, and Acting the Essence: The Performer’s Work on the Self (2022).

He has published extensively on Grotowski as part of the British Grotowski Project (University of Kent, directed by Paul Allain, 2006–2009) and beyond, covering topics such as acting, voice and body, directing, and ritual arts, in multiple languages.

Giuliano has been a Visiting Professor at MXAT - Moscow Art Theatre School (2008), and in Brazil at the Federal Universities of Rio de Janeiro (2017) and Bahia (2023). His teaching philosophy is deeply rooted in integrating research into practice-based learning, as demonstrated in innovative modules like Theatre and Ritual and Commedia dell’Arte. The Brazilian book Grotowski: Estados Alterados de Consciência (2020), edited by Joice Aglae Brondani, draws extensively on Brazilian colleagues’ reflections on his pedagogical work, alongside his texts. This is the second edition of a successful book originally published in 2015.

Administrative Duties

Giuliano is the Course Director of the Drama BA (Hons) courses at Ulster University.

General Professional Practice

He convenes the Working Group ‘Performance, Religion, and Spirituality’ at the International Federation of Theatre Research (IFTR) and collaborates with international artists and researchers in Japan, Brazil, Ghana, India, the Philippines, the US, and beyond.

Editorial board member: Voz e Cena (University of Brasilia, Brazil), Repertório (PPGAC/UFBA – Salvador de Bahia), and Rascunhos (University of Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil).

He is a member of EASSH – European Alliance for Social Sciences and Humanities – Task Force for Green and Digital Transition, the Irish Humanities Alliance (IHA) Environmental Humanities Working Group, the Voice and Speech Trainers Association (VASTA), the Ulster University Faculty of Arts Sustainability Working Group, and Costituente Terra, the Promoting Committee of the International Network of Constituent Earth. He was also selected as a VQR panel member (the Italian equivalent of the REF) for two research cycles.

Supervision

Giuliano has served as an external examiner, referee, and has successfully supervised PhD and postdoctoral research projects to completion. He is currently supervising two international students on Grotowski studies and Kurdish cinema. He is eager to supervise in areas related to Theatre and Performance Studies and their intersections with film, as well as his core areas of expertise: ritual arts, theatre anthropology, contemporary performance, actor and performer training, directing, practice as research, and the legacies of Grotowski and Stanislavski, and vocal practices.

Current and Recent Grants

January 2023: £2350 from Serviço Público Federal Universidade Federal da Bahia (for Visiting Professorship)

Current and Recent Grants

2022-23: £1350 from LUXe for The World of Luxe. ‘Christmas Lights Switch On’ PaR, Parades, Landscape and Ritual Performances

Current and Recent Grants

2022: £613.32 from EASSH – European Alliance for Social Sciences and Humanities (Brussels). EASSH Green and Digital Transition task force.

Current and Recent Grants

2022: £1,300 from the Parastudio Association and the University of Budapest for ‘Jerzy Grotowski’s Legacy – Zygmunt Molik’s Method: Work with Voice and Body’, a conference and series of activities in Budapest coinciding with the publication of my book in Hungarian.

Current and Recent Grants

2021-22: £3000 from Daiwa Foundation for ‘5 Imperfect Beauties’ A performative exploration of parallel Japanese and Northern Irish aesthetic and spiritual principles. with Reisa Shimojima and Kedagoro Dance Company, Derry, Belfast and Tokyo, Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation (London)

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 1 - No Poverty
  • SDG 2 - Zero Hunger
  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
  • SDG 4 - Quality Education
  • SDG 5 - Gender Equality
  • SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
  • SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
  • SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
  • SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
  • SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production
  • SDG 13 - Climate Action
  • SDG 14 - Life Below Water
  • SDG 15 - Life on Land
  • SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
  • SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals

Education/Academic qualification

PhD, Il Teatro di Simone Weil, Universita Roma Tre

15 Sept 200215 Apr 2006

Award Date: 15 May 2006

External positions

External Examiner for the BA and MA Courses of Acting for Stage and Screen , University of East London

1 Oct 202130 Sept 2026

Keywords

  • BH Aesthetics
  • GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography
  • LC5201 Education extension. Adult education. Continuing education

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