Nic Leonhardt
Nic Leonhardt is a theatre scholar as well as a writer. Her scholarly activities are characterized by a strong interdisciplinary approach and focus on Global Theatre History, media and cultural histories at the turn of the 20th and mid-20th century, visual culture, and archives. She was formerly senior researcher at the ERC project “Developing Theatre. Building Expert Networks for Theatre in Emerging Countries after 1945”, and the DFG Koselleck project “Global Theatre History”; in 2024, Nic was a Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Research Centre “Dis:connectivity in Processes of Globalisation”, Munich (www.globaldisconnect.org).
Her current research, “Global Theatre Histories: Connections, Dis:connections, Challenges”, is funded under the Heisenberg programme of the German Research Foundation (DFG), and focuses on theatre in Iran during the Qajar and Pahlavi periods as well as on female theatre networks in the 19th and 20th century.
Nic is re-elected president of SIBMAS (www.sibmas.org), and editor of the online Journal of Global Theatre Histories. She was recently appointed a member of the prestigious Young Centre of the Centre for Advanced at LMU Munich (www.cas.lmu.de)
Together with artist Reza Nassrollahi, Nic runs the global art and charity project 1001SOUL.