Dr. Giorgia Ciampi Tsolaki is a theatre practitioner and researcher, based in the UK and France. She is co-founder, dramaturg and actor of the Intercultural Performing Arts Company (IPAC) as well as actor of Compagnie Canopée (Paris, 2015-). She holds an AHRC funded post-doc (2023) and PhD (2022) from the University of Exeter, where she currently teaches. Her doctoral thesis explores alternative approaches to the actor’s affective embodiment in cross-/inter-cultural theatre training and performance. This research is partly presented in her forthcoming article, co-written with Prof. Colombetti: Enacting affectivity: the psychophysical training of śṛṅgāra in Gopal Venu’s Navarasa Sādhanā. Her post-doc focused on actor training and wellbeing both through the regular psychophysical training classes she holds and through her forthcoming book chapter Care-full embodiment in Zarrilli's psychophysical training. Prior to this she trained as an actor at the Intercultural Theatre Institute of Singapore (2012-2014) and trained with Phillip Zarrilli at the University of Exeter (2009-2011), where she obtained her MA in directing and actor training.

Recent accomplishments:

• AHRC Post-doctoral fellowship at Exeter (March-September 2023)

• Wasteland? by IPAC (May 2023): an ecocritical performance/event in collaboration with the primary schools of Grand Est in France. 

• AHRC funded PhD (Drama and Philosophy) at Exeter and Bath Spa (November 2022): Towards enactive affectivity in theatre training and performance: a phenomenological study of the actor’s affective embodiment in selected Indian, Japanese and intercultural performance practices.

• Above and Beyond Award for excellent and inspiring teaching, and careful support for postgraduate students on the MA (June 2022).