Kelsey Jacobson
PhD
Biography
Kelsey's Ph.D research takes as its central focus the question, 鈥淲hat feels real to contemporary audiences?鈥 and investigates the use, production, and perception of realness in current Canadian performance practices. By considering the tools for and effects of realness present in three case studies, this thesis examines how audience members locate realness within a show鈥檚 unique temporal and spatial dimensions. Kelsey has been awarded the Rod Robertson Award in Dramatic Literature and Theory, the Gordon and Myrtle Adams Scholarship, as well as a SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Master鈥檚 Scholarship. She is also an active theatre practitioner in Toronto, directing and designing shows whenever possible.
Kesley is now an assistant professor at Queen's University.