Ms Maureen Thomas MA

Maureen Thomas read English with Anglo Saxon, Norse and Celtic at Girton College before pursuing graduate studies at the Árni Magnússon Institute, Iceland and University College, London. She continues to call on oral storytelling and dramatic myth-performance in her work as a screenwriter, director, dramatist and librettist. She has been a Head Tutor at the National Film & Television School, UK and Professor 2 at the Norwegian Film School; a Senior Creative Research Fellow of the Narrativity Studio, Interactive Institute, Sweden; and Visiting Artist, Media Lab, Aalto University, Helsinki. She is a visiting tutor at Goldsmiths London Digital Studios; Newport Film School Screen Academy; Iceland Academy of the Arts; Estonia Academy of the Arts; Piteä School of Music and Media and Stockholm University of Dramatic Arts. Maureen is a member of the editorial board of the journal Digital Creativity. She is a Senior Research Associate at the Department of Architecture's Digital Studio (www.expressivespace.org), which she co-founded with François Penz (Professor, Architecture and the Moving Image) in 1998.

Practice-based research interests: spatial organisation of narrative; integrated media performance; archetypal storytelling in narrative expressive space and 3D real-time navigable environments; project-specific dramatic interaction-design; screen language.

List of all Churchill Fellows and By-Fellows