Professor Matthew Reason

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Professor Matthew Reason

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M.Reason@yorksj.ac.uk

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School of Performance & Media Production

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Professor of Theatre

Biography:

Matthew Reason is Professor in Theatre and Performance in the Faculty of Arts. His work engages with audiences, theatre for children, liveness, performance documentation and reflective practice. He has a particular specialism in developing research methodologies for qualitative audience research, including the use of creative (for example drawing or writing) based research techniques. He is also interested in cultural policy, contemporary performance practice and performance writing.

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Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236 (2020) Creative Doodle Book. Mind the Gap/York St John University, Bradford.
Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236, Conner, Lynne, Johanson, Katya and Walmsley, Ben, eds. (2022) Routledge Companion to Audiences and the Performing Arts. Routledge
Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236 (2022) Inclusive online community arts: COVID and beyond COVID. Cultural Trends. pp. 1-18.
Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236 and Ward, Charli (2021) Improving, Achieving, Excelling: Developing Inclusive Assessment Processes for a Degree-Level Learning Disability Arts Programme. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 27 (1). pp. 137-146.
Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236 and Schuitema, Karian (2021) Theater for Children and Young People. In: Montgomery, Heather, (ed.) Oxford Bibliographies in Childhood Studies. New York, Oxford University Press
Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236 (2022) Playful Research. In: Snyder-Young, Dani and Omasta, Matt, (eds.) Impacting Theatre Audiences: Methods for Studying Change. Routledge
Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236, Gibson, Joanne, Wilson, Harriet and Noret, Nathalie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4393-1887 (2021) Theatre Hullabaloo Baby Play Pack Evaluation. Project Report. Institute for Social Justice.
Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236 (2020) Spectatorship and Diversity: The Role of the Audience in Seeing Difference. In: Water, van de Water, (ed.) Diversity, Representation and Culture in TYA. South Afrtica, ASSITEJ, pp. 1-14
Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236 (2020) Where in your body? In: Performance Design 15 Years Celebration. Roskilde, Denmark, Roskilde University, pp. 92-97
Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236 (2018) Ways of Watching: Five Aesthetics of Learning Disability Theatre. In: Hadley, Bree and McDonald, Donna, (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Disability Arts, Culture and Media. Abingdon, Oxford, Routledge, pp. 163-175

My Most Viewed

#	Item title
1	Theatre Audiences and Perceptions of ‘Liveness’ in Performance	1855	1338
2	Storytelling, story-retelling, storyknowing: towards a participatory practice of storytelling	408	363
3	‘Asking the audience: audience research and the experience of theatre’	355
4	Writing the Embodied Experience: Ekphrastic and Creative Writing as Audience Research	260	119
5	Participations on Participation. Research the “active” theatre audience	252	2017
6	The young audience: exploring and enhancing children’s experiences of theatre	197
7	Applied Practice: Evidence and Impact in Theatre, Music and Art	182
8	Experiencing liveness in contemporary performance : interdisciplinary perspectives	164
9	Thinking Theatre: Enhancing Children’s Theatrical Experiences Through Philosophical Enquiry	147	109
10	Archive or memory?: the detritus of live performance	139