Oliver Bray

Dr Oliver Bray is the Dean of Leeds School of Arts at Leeds Beckett University.

Oliver holds an undergraduate degree, awarded first-class, in Theatre Studies (University of Hull), an MA, awarded with distinction, in Contemporary Art (Manchester Metropolitan University), and a practice-led PhD in the poetics of constraint in performance (University of Leeds). He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Oliver's well-respected performance and live art practice has toured nationally and internationally to venues and festivals including the Sibiu International Theatre Festival, Romania; In between Time, Bristol; and the National Review of Live Art, Glasgow. Oliver is a Board Director for the Centre for Live Art Yorkshire and an Editorial Board member for the Voice and Speech Review, published by Routledge.