Naomi Boyce (New York, 1992) is currently a doctoral researcher at the Collaborative Research Center 1512 “Intervening Arts” at Freie Universität Berlin. Her dissertation project examines the dynamics of participation and dissociation in contemporary activist performance. From 2015-16 she was a Fulbright Fellow at the Freie Universiät Berlin, where she also completed her MA in Theatre Studies with a thesis titled “Violence, Theatre and Other Devised Acts”. From 2018-2022 she worked as a Student Assistant for the International Research Centre “Interweaving Performance Cultures”, also at the Freie Universität Berlin, where she was involved in the copyediting of several edited volumes. In addition to her academic work, she is also a translator of German-language contemporary plays and performance texts.

WiSe 2023/24

Einfürhung in die Aufführungsanalyse (Introduction to Performance Analysis) (together with Dr. Torsten Jost, Freie Universität Berlin, Insitut für Theaterwissenschaft)

WiSe 2022/23

Einfürhung in die Aufführungsanalyse (Introduction to Performance Analysis) (together with Dr. Torsten Jost, Freie Universität Berlin, Insitut für Theaterwissenschaft)

SoSe 2022

Einfürhung in die Aufführungsanalyse (Introduction to Performance Analysis) (together with Dr. Torsten Jost, Freie Universität Berlin, Insitut für Theaterwissenschaft)

Journal Articles

"Entscheidungsfindung und Gewalt-Tun: Wie devising dissoziiert und kollektiviert [EN: Decision-making and Doing Violence: How devising dissociates and collectivizes"], in Ludger Schwarte und Matthias Warstat (Hg.), Entscheidung - Intervention - Kollektiv [EN: Decision - Intervention - Collective] (Paragrana: Internationale Zeitschrift für Historische Anthropologie 2023, Volume 32, Issue 2), Berlin: de Gruyter 2023, 186-199.

Short Texts

"Thornton Wilder besucht Berlin" and "Brecht-Forschung in Westberlin". In: Front – Stadt – Institut. Theaterwissenschaft an der Freien Universität 1948-1968. Edited by Peter Jammerthal and Jan Lazardzig. Berlin: Verbrecher Verlag 2018, 157-165.

Translations

Mansha, Tian and Torsten Jost (Eds.). Directing Theatre and Performance in China Today: Twelve Directors’ First-Hand Accounts. Translated from the German by Naomi Boyce and from the Chinese by Stefan Christ. London: Routledge 2023 (forthcoming).