Dominic’s role

Dominic is a founding member of ‘Justice, the Arts and Migration’, exploring transnational migration; He’s also Co-Investigator on ‘A Different Story’, investigating the BAME-led music industry in the Midlands.

A bit of background

Dominic’s early career was as an actor-musician performing around the UK and Europe, and as a theatre director with shows including “cult fringe hit” Dragula (2002-3), the Moldovan state premiere of The Magic Flute (2006), and the Moulin Rouge-themed Spectacular Spectacular (2009), raising over £40,000 for children’s cancer charity Momentum in the West End. Recent publications include Economies of Collaboration in Performance: More than the Sum of the Parts (Palgrave, 2018), Broadway Rhythm: Imaging the City in Song (Michigan, 2017), and We’ll Have Manhattan: The Early Work of Rodgers and Hart (OUP, 2015). He is co-editor of Studies in Musical Theatre, and founder of the international conference series Song, Stage and Screen. Recent projects include the HLF / A4A-funded “Welcoming Voices” /“Memory, Migration and Music”, which explored the relationship between music and migration in Lincolnshire, and which spawned outreach activities developing community skills, and a series of world music events. He’s an associate of cultural solutions uk and a member of the board of trustees for SoundLincs.

And finally…

Dominic’s written the musicals Dragula (2002-3), Sweet FA (2009), and a series of Christmas shows for Lincoln Performing Arts Centre, including Alice’s Adventures in Winter Wonderland (2014), Peter Pan (2015), Treasure Island (2016), The Adventures of Robin Hood and Maid Marian: Winter in Sherwood (2017) and Rapunzel (2018).