Pascale Aebischer is Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Performance Studies at the University of Exeter.

She has long been interested in work produced by Shakespeare’s Globe and in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouses, with chapters and articles on the subject published in Shakespeare Bulletin (2019), Shakespeare and the ‘Live’ Theatre Broadcast Experience (Bloomsbury, 2018) and in her book on Shakespeare, Spectatorship and the Technologies of Performance (CUP, 2020).

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, she has been working on projects related to the creative industries: “Digital Theatre Transformation” (AHRC, 2020) was concerned with helping small to mid-scale companies pivot to digital modes of performance while pandemic restrictions were in force; “The Pandemic and Beyond: the Arts and Humanities Contribution to Covid Research and Recovery” (AHRC, 2021-23) was a UK-wide research co-ordination project that included a significant strand of work concerned with the creative industries response to the pandemic; “Pandemic Preparedness in the Live Performing Arts: Lessons to Learn from COVID-19” (BA, 2023-24) compares how the theatre industries in the USA, Canada, Germany and the UK have fared throughout COVID-19 and seeks to prepare live performing arts in the UK for future shocks.

Adaptation and resilience in the performing arts: the pandemic and beyond, a collection of essays co-edited with Rachael Nicholas, is forthcoming from Manchester University Press in Spring 2024.