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.

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:
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  • theatre professionals in the suffrage movement before, during, and after WW1
  • the performative propaganda of the suffrage movement and its links with popular culture
  • performative presentations of feminism and political activism, past and present 
  • cultural histories of political and feminist theatre in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
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  • actor training, especially physical theatre and movement based practices 
  • applied theatre practice and puppetry with non-verbal/autistic/institutionalised participants ​

BBC Arts short film - Votes for Women! Yours for a Penny!

Edith Garrud, Ju-jitsu Suffragette


​Suffragettes on Stage  at the National Theatre 

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The Suffragettes on Stage Platform Performance which was held at
the National Theatre in June 2013 is now available to listen to online!

Click here to be taken to SoundCloud

Click here to find out more about the Methuen Drama Book of Suffrage Plays

Juggling Metaphors and the Actresses' Franchise League - a Gestural Note

Naomi took part in a Activist Performance seminar at the University of Manchester on 7th February 2013. 
Her Gestural Note was Juggling - and you can find out more about it and hear a clip of Naomi performing below:

Knickerbocker Glories on BBC Radio 4

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Naomi and Samantha Bond appeared on Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4 in June 2010
​to talk about the plays and the Actresses' Franchise League. 

You can listen online to the interview here 
Naomi would like to gratefully acknowledge the financial support of Equity Charitable Trust towards her studies. More info about them here
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