Equity & Access
are at the heart of my creative practice. 

Liselle Terret's work as a performance artist and director foregrounds her identification as neuro-divergent, disrupting theatrical norms through a radical crip, feminist, queer and collaborative  approach across her solo work (as Doris La Trine), mentoring, consultancy, teaching, writing and directing. Her research and its impacts are intertwined and cumulative. Practice-based research in the form of theatre-making is complemented by writing grounded in the same ethic of care and collaboration, to bring the lived experience of learning disabled and autistic artists to the centre for emancipatory self-representation. Liselle's Practice as Research is conducted collaboratively with disabled and neuro-divergent artists, co-constructing radical and political questions about continued exclusion and discriminatory assumptions around binaries of 'ability/disability'.  

Liselle is an Associate Professor in Performance at University of East London.  Prior to UEL Liselle was a lecturer in Applied Theatre at Royal Central School of Speech & Drama where she co- founded with Access All Areas, the Diploma in Performance Making for adults with Learning Disabilities & Autism that won the Guardian University Award for Student Diversity and Widening Participation in 2015. She originally began as a drama and SEN teacher, before working at Half Moon Young People's Theatre and the Unicorn Theatre as well as freelancing and working internationally.