About

Yoni Prior has worked as a performer, animateur, director, dramaturg, translator and writer with theatre and dance companies in Australia, the Middle East and Europe. She served on the Australia Council Theatre Board, was Chair of the Big West Festival, and is currently on the Board of Back to Back Theatre. She was Associate Professor and is now Honorary Senior Fellow (Theatre) in the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, The University of Melbourne. Between 1991 and 2019 she was a Senior Lecturer and Course Director of Drama (1997 - 2017) at Deakin University.

Her doctoral research focused on contemporary Australian rehearsal processes, and she has created a number of digital theatre collaborations between Deakin University, the University of Amsterdam, the British Museum and Cambridge University. She has published on contemporary performance practice, practice as research, dramaturgy in dance and theatre, rehearsal practice, performance and disability, intercultural performance, intermediate theatre, performer training and repertoire development. She was the editor of the journal Australasian Drama Studies between 2018 and 2023.