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Performance Artist

Teacher
Liselle is an Associate Professor and Co-Programme Leader BA (Hons) Drama, Applied Theatre and Performance, that combines socially-engaged performance practice with contemporary theatre as well as the processes, ethics and politics of making performance for and with specific audiences, often in the margins.
Prior to teaching at UEL Liselle worked 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. Liselle has also worked at Coventry University, Brunel University and NYU. She originally began as a drama teacher, before working at Half Moon Young People's Theatre and the Unicorn Theatre as well as freelancing and working internationally.
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Liselle Terret is currently a co-programme leader and a senior lecturer at the University of East London, where she also publishes and presents on her performance-practice. She has more than twenty years of experience within the field as a teacher, facilitator and manager of Applied Theatre related projects within and outside of the UK working with a diverse selection of groups.
Terret's career began as a drama teacher and then moved to fulfilling a role within a special needs school. Following this she took a role at the Central School of Speech and Drama leading a Performance Making Diploma for learning disabled students. The diploma was a partnership with Access All Areas a company that makes urban, disruptive performance with learning disabled and autistic artists. Their role at the Central School of Speech and Drama spanned eight years. The Performance Making Diploma program won the 2015 The Guardian University Award for Student Diversity and Widening Participation.
Furthering their role within the educational system she took a role at Coventry University teaching Applied Theatre as a senior lecturer.
From 1998 until early 2000s Terret joined Half Moon, where she was Education Officer.
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