Scott Palmer

Dr Scott Palmer is Associate Professor in Performance Design and Director of student education in the School of Performance & Cultural Industries at the University of Leeds. His teaching and research focus on scenography, immersive theatrical environments, and the interactions between technologies and performance.

His monograph Light: Readings in Theatre Practice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) explores how light has influenced staging throughout history and offers a range of new perspectives on the use of light as a creative performance practice. Scenography Expanded: An Introduction to Contemporary Performance Design co-edited with Dr Joslin McKinney (Methuen, 2017) examines scenography as a site of imaginative exchange and transformative experience. He is Associate Editor of the Routledge Theatre and Performance Design Journal and co-editor of Bloomsbury Methuen’s Performance + Design book series. His most recent performance projects have involved creating site-specific work in heritage settings, with Estate (2017) leading to the development of an experimental 360 degree interactive film.