Helen Gilbert

Helen Gilbert is Professor of Environmental Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London, and co/author of influential books and essays in postcolonial and intercultural theatre. Her current research investigates climate change activism as mobilised through puppetry, site-responsive performance and live arts concerned with environmental justice. She is the project leader of CoastARTS, a multi-country initiative recently funded by HERA–CHANSE  to investigate performance-making engaged with ecocultural crises in coastal zones in the north Atlantic and Caribbean regions. Her earlier collaborative work, including the ERC-funded ‘Indigeneity in the Contemporary World’ project (2009–14), explored Indigenous performance constellations in the Americas, the Pacific, Australia and South Africa. In 2015, she won a Humboldt Prize for lifetime achievements in international theatre and performance studies.