Nic Fryer

Senior Lecturer (Practice) in Learning and Teaching

Education

Middlesex University

Creative education, Group work, Drama, theatre and performance education, Applied theatre, Reflective practice, Performance philosophy and the philosophy of Jacques Rancière

Nic is a lecturer, teacher and theatre director. He has taught in a range of educational settings, including working in drama departments in universities for fifteen years and secondary schools for thirteen years, where he led one of the largest Drama cohorts in the UK. Nic has won various awards for his teaching and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He founded the award winning Small Change Theatre, whose productions Long Wave, Red Velvet and Making the Difference amongst others have toured nationally to a range of venues including BAC, Latitude Festival and Birmingham Repertory Theatre.

Diploma in Group Work with Groupwork Practitioner Status, Institute of Group Analysis. December 2021. PhD (Education, Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies). Thesis: Towards a Pedagogy of Devised Theatre Praxis. University of Warwick. December 2013. Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. December 2013. Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) – Beds County Council. June 1997. Certificate of Further Professional Study (CFPD) – University of Cambridge Institute of Education. April 1997. MA Theatre Studies. University of Leeds. June 1994. BA Hons Drama. University of Bristol. June 1992.

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  1. Fryer, Nic ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7060-9290 (2010) From reproduction to creativity and the aesthetic: towards an ontological approach to the assessment of devised performance. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 15 (4) . pp. 547-562. ISSN 1356-9783 [Article] (doi:10.1080/13569783.2010.512189)
  2. Fryer, Nic ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7060-9290 (2015) The ‘third thing’: Rancière, process drama and experimental performance. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 20 (3) . pp. 331-336. ISSN 1356-9783 [Article] (doi:10.1080/13569783.2015.1059258)
  3. Fryer, Nic ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7060-9290 and Boot, Michelle (2017) Beyond you and I: role play and reflection-in-action in communication training. Reflective Practice, 18 (1) . pp. 112-122. ISSN 1462-3943 [Article] (doi:10.1080/14623943.2016.1251413)
  4. Edwards, Sharon Lorraine, Fryer, Nic ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7060-9290, Boot, Michelle, Farquharson, Michael, McCormack, Samantha, Sluman, Kelly and Tigar, Katherine (2018) Results of cross-faculty 'capstone' assessments involving nursing and performing arts students. Nursing Management, 25 (4) . pp. 22-29. ISSN 1354-5760 [Article] (doi:10.7748/nm.2018.e1777)
  5. Fryer, Nic ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7060-9290 (2021) ‘Apart, we are together. Together, we are apart’: Rancière’s community of translators in theory and theatre. In: Rancière and Performance. Fryer, Nic ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7060-9290 and Conroy, Colette, eds. Performance Philosophy . Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, pp. 101-121. ISBN 9781538146576, pbk-ISBN 9781538148419, e-ISBN 9781538146583. [Book Section]
  6. Fryer, Nic ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7060-9290 (2021) Rancière’s theatrocracy within and beyond the theatre. In: Rancière and Performance. Fryer, Nic ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7060-9290 and Conroy, Colette, eds. Performance Philosophy . Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, pp. 1-14. ISBN 9781538146576, pbk-ISBN 9781538148419, e-ISBN 9781538146583. [Book Section]
  7. Fryer, Nic ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7060-9290 (2022) Hope and helplessness in the post-Covid drama, theatre and performance classroom. In: TaPRA, 12-14 September 2022, University of Essex. . [Conference or Workshop Item]