Bruce Barton

Bruce Barton is a performance maker and research-creation scholar. He works extensively as a professional director and dramaturg, and is the Co-Artistic Director, with Pil Hansen, of Vertical City Performance. As a playwright, Bruce’s works have been performed across Canada, received multiple awards and nominations, and been anthologized. He is the author or editor/contributor of seven books focusing on dramaturgy and artistic research, including Performance as Research: Methods, Knowledge, Impact (Routledge 2018), Mediating Practice(s): Performance as Research and/in/through Mediation (U of Winchester P, 2013), and At the Intersection Between Art and Research (NSU 2010). Bruce received his PhD in Performance from the University of Toronto, where he was a faculty member for 15 years, followed by 10 years as the Director of the School of Creative and Performing Arts at the University of Calgary. He is also the co-convenor of the Artistic Research Working Group of Performance Studies international (PSi).