Free-lance Dramaturg and Assistant Director for several opera productions, among others at the theatres of Giessen (Germany) and Luzern (Switzerland). She is currently an AHRC Research Student of the Presence project (Exeter University). Her main research interests focus on contemporary opera and the interfaces of theatre with digital environments. With ‘ The Virtualisation of Opera: (Dis)simulation of body and space in contemporary, (new) media-based opera performance’, she aims to investigate how the application of new technologies in theatre modifies the presence of the performer.