Thea Brejzek ​

Thea Brejzek (PhD) is Professor in the Interior and Spatial Design Program at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and teaches regularly at the Institute for Theatre, Film and Media Studies at the University of Vienna. Thea has a background in opera stage directing and theatre studies and until 2012 was a Professor at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), Switzerland and the Director of the practice-informed PhD program Scenography in a collaboration between Zurich and the University of Vienna. Thea Brejzek was the Founding Curator for Theory at the 2011 Prague Quadrennial for Performance Design and Space (PQ), Prague, and publishes and lectures widely on the history and theory of scenography and performative environments with a particular interest in transdisciplinary practices and the politics of space in performance. Thea chaired a panel discussing Free Theatre's Doctor Faustus (2010) for the Platform Arts Festival and headed a studio of her UTS scenography students for Canterbury Tales (2013).