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Short career outline Professor Noel Witts was the founder and first Director of the Department of Performing Arts at De Montfort University, UK, which contained the first undergraduate course in arts management in the UK. He then became director of post-graduate studies in performance there and subsequently at Hull University's Scarborough Campus, where he teaches courses on contemporary UK and European theatre. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the London Institute, where he teaches international post-graduate courses on Scenography.For several years he co-directed the British Council International Seminar on "Theatre Management:Building New Audiences" in the UK and also co-directed courses on arts management which took him to Slovakia, Israel, Russia, Romania, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia. He has been a commentator on theatre for the BBC, for whom he has written a dozen radio documentaries,mostly dealing with the former countries of Eastern Europe. He writes on theatre regularly for Western European Stages (USA), and Okrean (Romania). He was a founding member of Performance Research, published by Routledge, UK, and has co-edited The Twentieth Century Performance Reader for Routledge, now into its second edition.He has also written on Samuel Beckett, and more recently on the work of Martin Esslin at the BBC. He has sat on the Boards of the Leicester Haymarket Theatre, Phoenix Arts, and the Centre for Performance Research, and was Chair of the East Midlands Arts Drama panel for several years. He has been an Arts Council advisor for 20 years.He has been a consultant on arts and arts management subjects to the Government of Jamaica, the city of Sibiu (Romania), and the Sultanate of Oman, as well as a variety of UK universities. As Chair of CONCEPTS he organised conferences in Sofia, Porto, Jerusalem, Sibiu (Romania), and London. He is a Council Member of the British Centre of the International Theatre Institute . For Arts Interlink he has visited China where he helped negotiate collaborative arts projects in Shanghai and Beijing.
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