Staff Directory
Doona, Liam
Department:
Department of Art and Design
School / Functional Area:
School of Creative Arts
Job Title:
Head of Department
Contact Telephone Number:
+353 1 2394765
Email Address:
liam (dot) doona (at) iadt (dot) ie
Academic Qualifications:
Diploma in Art and Design
Birmingham Polytechnic 1983
BA Hons.Theatre Design
Trent Polytechnic 1986
Society of British Theatre Designer
Irish Society for Theatre Research
Area of Expertise:
Design for Performance in educational and professional contexts.
External Examining/Consultancy
The Arden School. Manchester. (University of Manchester) 2001- 2005
Performance Design and Management BA (Hons)
Central School of Speech and Drama Revalidation Panel June 2002
Theatre Practice BA (Hons)
Croydon College (London Metropolitan University) 2002-2005
Theatre Design BA (Hons)
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama (University of Wales )
Theatre Design BA (Hons.) 2005- Present
Currently Teaching:
Production Design
Research Interests/Activities:
My research and professional practice centre around the role of the scenographer in both contemporary and historical contexts.
My educational research has focussed on how the transdisciplinary challenges of performance design can be articulated within both undergraduate and post graduate curricula and what opportunites may exist for the transferal of these strategies to other subject domains.
Professional Practice Interests:
I have over twenty years of expereince as a theatre designer, staging work in many of the UKs leading venues and working with a number of leading touring and regional companies including; York Theatre Royal, Hull Truck Theatre, Nottingham Playhouse, Liverpool Everyman, Sheffield Crucible, Compass Theatre Company, Pilot Theatre Company.
My profressional practice as an educator combined with commercial theatre design practice has enabled me to work in a wide variety of education institutions in the UK HE sector . These include
1993-1996
University College Bretton Hall. Leeds School of Drama Lecturer
Main responsibilities included development and delivery of new B.A. Hons Course, Theatre Design and Technology with particular responsibility for;
Undergraduate Theatre Design Practice
Supervision of project work across Drama and Design courses
Devised Visual Performance Level Two
Production Management and Realised Design Mentoring
Technical Theatre
Designed “Powerhouse Theatre” Wakefield a 200 seat thrust theatre space .Conversion of extant retail outlet .
1995 Coordinated Prague Quadrennial Student Exhibition entry.
Resigned from post to join University of Central England as Senior Lecturer, Director of Studies in the School of Theatre Design.
1996 – 1999
University of Central England, Birmingham Institute of Art and Design (B.I.A.D)
Head of The School of Theatre Design , Course Director M.A. Scenography.
Senior Lecturer.
Main Responsibilities
B.A. (Hons) Theatre Design
B.A. (Hons) Performance Design and Communication
P.G.Cert. /P.G.Dip./ MA. Scenography
Course co-ordination, Management and Representation
Course Development.
Budget Control [E.S.F. Fund Holder]
I.P.R.
Line Management
Timetables
Assessment
Professional liaison including
Royal Opera House
Royal Shakespeare Company
Birmingham Repertory Theatre
Birmingham Royal Ballet
Midlands Arts Centre
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Institute Experience
Member of B.I.A.D. Management Team
Academic Monitoring Committee
Health and Safety Committee
B.I.A.D Validation and Scrutiny Panel for Revalidation and Review
Matrix of Masters Degrees Panel
Faculty Electives Co ordination
Promoted to Head of School in 1997.
Successfully led School through QAA inspection in 1999.
Re designed and expanded undergraduate programmes including removal from the Department of Three Dimensional Design and re location in the Department of Visual Communication.
Authored:
Scenography: PG Cert/PG Dip/ MA
Performance Design and Communication BA hons.
Re validated Theatre Design BA hons
Coordinated 1999 Prague Quadrennial Student Entry
Resigned from post in December 1999 to take up Senior Lectureship at Nottingham Trent University
2000 – 2003
Nottingham Trent University
Senior Lecturer, Programme Leader; Theatre Design.
Head of BA (hons) Theatre Design Programme
Senior Lecturer MA Theatre Arts
Department of Visual and Performing Arts Management Group (DAMG)
Health and Safety Representative
Successfully led programme area through QAA inspection 2000/1
2003 – Promoted to Principal Lecturer and Subject leader (HOD) for newly constituted organisation of undergraduate and post graduate programmes in Spatial Design incorporating;-
Theatre Design
Interior Architecture
Design for Television
INTADAP
Member of SASQ – School Academic Standards and Quality
Member of School Management Team
2004 – Promoted to Academic Team Leader
School of Art and Design Management Team
Principal Lecturer, Academic Team Leader for programmes in the subject area “Narrative and Interactive Arts “
Led re-design and internal validation process for programmes in ;-
BA (Hons) Design for Film and Television
BA (Hons )Theatre Design
Ba (Hons) Multimedia
BSc (Hons) Multimedia
MA Theatre Arts
July 2006 resigned to take up Head of Department of Art and Design at IADT Dun Loughaire.
Ma Visual Arts Practice
Ma /MSc Digital Media
Ba Hons Visual Communication
Ba Hons Photography
Ba Hons Visual Arts Practice
Led design and validation of Ma/MSc Digital Media
Other Responsibilities
Quality Assurance Group
Academic Management Group
Institute Management Team
School of Creative Arts Executive
Publications:
Extensive design experience in the UK working with a wide range of theatre companies and heritage and exhibtion projects.
Other research work includes;
Digital Scenographics ; Performance, design and new technologies .
The British Computing Society Loughborough University, Autumn 2002
Jo Mielziner and New American Stagecraft; Hope, hopelessness; presence and absence.
Theatre Design Research 1, Autumn 2003
Staging Goya; Devised Theatre as a Model of Transdisciplinary Practice.
Taipei University of the Arts/British Council, Taiwan Summer 2003
On Some Possible Futures. Shaping Art and Design Education.
Association of Courses in Theatre Design Conference, Nottingham Trent University September 2004
Issues in Theatre Curricula.
OISTAT Symposium, Nottingham Trent University September 2005
Terence Gray, Irish theatre and European modernism. Conference paper,
Irish Society for Theatre Research. Queens University , Bellfast ,. April 2007
Peter Brook A Bibliography by Michael Kuzow.
Reviewed for The Society of British theatre Designers Blue Pages Spring 2005
Teapots and Gizmos .CAD4Theatre .
ABTT seminar report for Blue Pages Spring 2005
The Broken Circle. The Performance Spaces of Peter Brook by Jean Guy Lecat.
Review for The Society of British Theatre Designers, Blue Pages. Autumn 2005 .
The White Album : Reflecting on the integration of projected and physical scenography.
Article for Blue Pages Spring 2006
Conference Organisation.
The Next Stage: Association of Courses in Theatre Design Nottingham Trent University Summer 2004 –
OISTAT Symposium Nottingham Trent University October 2005
