About Naomi
Dr Naomi Paxton is a performer, writer and researcher.
Naomi trained as a perfomer at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (now the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland). After ten years as a professional actor, she started a PhD. Her doctoral research at the University of Manchester explored the work of the Actresses' Franchise League and the contribution of theatre professionals to the suffrage campaign.
In 2013 she edited The Methuen Drama Book of Suffrage Plays (Bloomsbury) which launched at a Platform event at the National Theatre entitled Suffragettes on Stage. Other publications include Stage Rights! The Actresses' Franchise League, Activism and Politics 1908-1958 (Manchester University Press, 2018) and a second edited collection, The Methuen Drama Book of Suffrage Plays: Taking the Stage (Bloomsbury, 2018).
A confident, engaging and creative public speaker, Naomi was one of the AHRC/BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinkers for 2014-15. She appears regularly on BBC radio and television, and has spoken at the National Theatre, Bristol Old Vic, the Barbican, the National Archives, the Hay Festival and Latitude Festival, amongst others. Naomi is the regular MC for Museums Showoff and the V&A Museum's Carry on Curating shows,
Naomi is an Associate Fellow of the School of Advanced Study, University of London, an Associate Artist of feminist production hub Scary Little Girls, and most recently worked at Parliament on an AHRC funded project entitled What Difference Did the War Make? World War One and Votes for Women.
In 2018 she was nominated for a Parliamentary Diversity and Inclusion Award for her work with the Vote 100 team.
She performs at comedy, cabaret and variety nights as her character Ada Campe. Ada won the prestigious New Act of the Year Show (NATYS) in 2018, and the 2018 Old Comedian of the Year competition. Naomi has contributed to two recent books about women in comedy, The What the Frock! Book of Funny Women (2015) and Stand Up & Sock It To Them Sister (2016).
You can follow Naomi on Twitter @NaomiPaxton, follow Ada Campe on Twitter @AdaCampe
Naomi trained as a perfomer at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (now the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland). After ten years as a professional actor, she started a PhD. Her doctoral research at the University of Manchester explored the work of the Actresses' Franchise League and the contribution of theatre professionals to the suffrage campaign.
In 2013 she edited The Methuen Drama Book of Suffrage Plays (Bloomsbury) which launched at a Platform event at the National Theatre entitled Suffragettes on Stage. Other publications include Stage Rights! The Actresses' Franchise League, Activism and Politics 1908-1958 (Manchester University Press, 2018) and a second edited collection, The Methuen Drama Book of Suffrage Plays: Taking the Stage (Bloomsbury, 2018).
A confident, engaging and creative public speaker, Naomi was one of the AHRC/BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinkers for 2014-15. She appears regularly on BBC radio and television, and has spoken at the National Theatre, Bristol Old Vic, the Barbican, the National Archives, the Hay Festival and Latitude Festival, amongst others. Naomi is the regular MC for Museums Showoff and the V&A Museum's Carry on Curating shows,
Naomi is an Associate Fellow of the School of Advanced Study, University of London, an Associate Artist of feminist production hub Scary Little Girls, and most recently worked at Parliament on an AHRC funded project entitled What Difference Did the War Make? World War One and Votes for Women.
In 2018 she was nominated for a Parliamentary Diversity and Inclusion Award for her work with the Vote 100 team.
She performs at comedy, cabaret and variety nights as her character Ada Campe. Ada won the prestigious New Act of the Year Show (NATYS) in 2018, and the 2018 Old Comedian of the Year competition. Naomi has contributed to two recent books about women in comedy, The What the Frock! Book of Funny Women (2015) and Stand Up & Sock It To Them Sister (2016).
You can follow Naomi on Twitter @NaomiPaxton, follow Ada Campe on Twitter @AdaCampe
About Naomi: RESEARCH
Naomi completed her doctoral thesis:
Re-evaluating the Actresses Franchise League: actresses, politics and activism from 1908-1958
in the Drama Department of the University of Manchester in 2015.
Her supervisor was Professor Maggie Gale.
Re-evaluating the Actresses Franchise League: actresses, politics and activism from 1908-1958
in the Drama Department of the University of Manchester in 2015.
Her supervisor was Professor Maggie Gale.
Naomi was one of the AHRC/BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinkers in 2014-15 and has extensive public engagement experience.
Her research interests include:
Her research interests include:
- Performative presentations of feminism and political activism, particularly in the women's suffrage movement
- The involvement of theatre professionals in the suffrage movement
- Networks of suffragist and feminist activists in the first half of the twentieth century
- Cultural histories of political and feminist theatre
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- Actor training, especially physical theatre and movement based practices
- Applied theatre practice, especially puppetry with non-verbal/autistic spectrum participants
About Naomi: COMEDY
As well as MC-ing nights like Museums Showoff and the V&A Museum's Carry on Curating as herself, Naomi performs professionally as her comedy character ‘Ada Campe’ at comedy, variety and cabaret nights.
Ada Campe won the prestigious New Act of the Year show (NATYS) in 2018 and the 2018 Old Comedian of the Year competition.
Click here to find out more about Ada Campe and her upcoming gigs
About Naomi: ACTING
Naomi trained in Acting at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (now the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland). She has been working professionally as an actor since 1999 and has appeared in the West End and on tour in the UK and Internationally.
A passionate and versatile performer, Naomi has a diverse and interesting CV!
Naomi is an Associate Artist of the feminist production hub Scary Little Girls
Click here to see her Acting CV (Spotlight link)
About Naomi: EMPLOYMENT
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From April 2017-April 2018 Naomi was the Research Assistant at Parliament on a joint AHRC funded project between Professor Krista Cowman at the University of Lincoln, Dr Angela Smith at the University of Plymouth, and UK Parliament Vote 100. What difference did the war make? World War One and Votes for Women featured public events and workshops in Plymouth, Lincoln and London, and in January 2018 Naomi created an exhibition o Parliament to celebrate the centenary of the granting of the limited franchise to women. To see the online exhibition, click here To find out more about Vote 100, click here |
From February-June 2016, Naomi was Cultural Engagement Fellow at the School of Advanced Study, University of London.
From September to November 2016, Naomi returned to SAS as the co-curator of London Hub 'Ministry of Hope and Fear'
and London Hub Convenor for the Being Human Festival.
From 2015-2016 Naomi was the Post Doctoral Research Associate for Poor Theatres, an AHRC funded project at the University of Manchester.
She contributed to the process of documenting the work of local, national and international theatre initiatives working in the area of economic justice and/or addressing poverty. This included carrying out and editing online interviews with international theatre practitioners, and the documentation of a homelessness theatre project and theatre entrepreneurship project with young people in Manchester. Naomi project managed the Poor Theatres symposium in November 2015 and was responsible for the design of logos, related promotional material and the Poor Theatres profiles on social media.
She contributed to the process of documenting the work of local, national and international theatre initiatives working in the area of economic justice and/or addressing poverty. This included carrying out and editing online interviews with international theatre practitioners, and the documentation of a homelessness theatre project and theatre entrepreneurship project with young people in Manchester. Naomi project managed the Poor Theatres symposium in November 2015 and was responsible for the design of logos, related promotional material and the Poor Theatres profiles on social media.
About Naomi: TEACHING
Teaching experience includes:
Public Speaking workshops for the University of London (2017-18) , Comedy workshops for City Academy, London (2017-18) , Visiting Practitioner for the Drama Department at the University of Manchester (2013-18), workshops about suffrage theatre, GCSE and A Level Drama workshops, one to one acting coaching and vocal and physical theatre workshops for children and adults. Naomi is also a mentor for Arts Emergency and an Actor/Trainer for the Extreme Psychiatry programme for undergraduate medical students at King's College London.
Naomi was the first Actor in Residence at Christ's Hospital School, West Sussex in 2002. She spent five consecutive summers in Romania working in state run orphanages for special needs adolescents with staff and students from Christ's Hospital School, James Allen's Girls School, Fundatia New Life and Nightingales Children's Project, and developed a drama workshop programme that used puppetry to facilitate communication and creative work with non-speaking, autistic spectrum participants.
About Naomi: PRODUCTIONS
As well as over 15 years experience working in London's West End on over 30 plays, musicals, operas and events both front and back of house, Naomi is an excellent communicator with highly developed creative skills. She has production management experience and has worked professionally in many theatre departments, particularly wardrobe and box office.
Naomi produced Knickerbocker Glories, a triple bill of Suffrage plays that ran at the Union Theatre in London in June 2010 and co-produced Stage Rights! A Living Literature Walk in April 2013 and May 2016 and A Particular Theatre: Shakespeare, Suffragists and Soldiers in November 2016 with Scary Little Girls.
Click here to find out more about Knickerbocker Glories
Naomi produced Knickerbocker Glories, a triple bill of Suffrage plays that ran at the Union Theatre in London in June 2010 and co-produced Stage Rights! A Living Literature Walk in April 2013 and May 2016 and A Particular Theatre: Shakespeare, Suffragists and Soldiers in November 2016 with Scary Little Girls.
Click here to find out more about Knickerbocker Glories