Votes for Women

Susan Croft
Susan is a writer, historian, curator and researcher. She worked in the USA
with the Omaha Magic Theatre in the early 1980s, returning to Britain to
work as a dramaturg with small-scale theatre companies and founding
New Playwrights Trust, of which she was Director from 1986-89.
She taught Creative Arts (Performance) at Nottingham Trent University
and then was Senior Research Fellow in Performance Arts at Manchester
Metropolitan University to 1996. From 1997-2005 she was Curator of
Contemporary Performance at the Theatre Museum where she worked on
the National Video Archive of Performance. She also curated four major
exhibitions including Let Paul Robeson Sing! and Architects of Fantasy
and pioneered a range of initiatives to record the history of black and Asian
theatre in Britain.
She has written extensively on women playwrights, including: ...She
Also Wrote Plays: an International Guide to Women Playwrights from
the 10th to the 21st Century (Faber and Faber, 2001). She is working on a
Critical Bibliography of Plays Published by Women Playwrights in English
to 1914 for Manchester University Press and a major anthology Staging the
New Woman, with Sherry Engle.
She also runs the project Unfinished Histories: Recording the History
of Alternative Theatre, with Jessica Higgs, a major initiative to record oral
histories and preserve archives of the alternative theatre movement from
the 1960s to the 1980s. See www.susan.croft.btinternet.co.uk for further
details.
She lives in London with her partner and two children.