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Katie Hawthorne is a writer, researcher and journalist based in Edinburgh, Scotland. She achieved her PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 2022 with a thesis titled ‘Contextualising Liveness: Digitally Distributed, Digitally Mediated and Digitally Located Theatre in Edinburgh and Berlin, 2017-19’. Katie is also an alumna of the Academy, and her project ‘Automating the Audience’ explored the ethics of labour in emerging modes of digital audienceship. As a journalist, Katie writes about art, culture and technology for publications including The Guardian, The Scotsman and the Stage.
Katie has been a member of the team at the Academy since May 2022. She is working to reimagine the Academy’s digital archive, and collaborates with each Fellowship to find creative forms of knowledge sharing and research documentation.
Contact: katie.hawthorne@theater.digital