Rate My Professor Laura Ginters

Associate Professor Laura Ginters serves as Chair of Discipline in Theatre and Performance Studies within the School of Art, Communication and English at the University of Sydney's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Her academic qualifications include a Doctor of Philosophy, BA (Hons), and LLB from the University of Sydney. As an interdisciplinary scholar with a background in Theatre and Performance Studies and Germanic Studies, she researches Australian theatre history, German theatre, rehearsal processes, student theatre, and women in theatre. Ginters lectures in the Department of Theatre and Performance Studies, contributing to learning and teaching activities, and supervises higher degree research projects, such as those on dramaturgy and translation. She also works as a translator and dramaturg, applying her expertise to practical theatre production.

Her scholarly output includes co-authoring The Ripples Before the New Wave: Drama at the University of Sydney 1957-1963 (2019) with Robyn Dalton, documenting the golden age of university theatrics and Sydney University's influence on Australian theatre. She contributed the chapter 'Student Ethnographers in the Rehearsal Room: Witnessing Prinz Bettliegend' to A Holocaust Cabaret: Re-making Theatre History from a Jewish Ghetto (2023). Other key publications encompass 'Agamemnon comes to the Antipodes: The Origins of Student Drama at the University of Sydney' (2019, in Antipodean Antiquities), contributions to Women and Leadership: Theatre (2006), and Performance Studies: Here, There, Then, Now (Department of Theatre and Performance Studies publication). Ginters received Australian Research Council funding through Discovery Project DP1095749 in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies. She has held roles such as Associate Director of the International Theatre Institute (Australian Centre) and serves on editorial boards. Her public engagement features articles on the University of Sydney's Footbridge Theatre history (2024) and discussions on rehearsal practices. Previously recognized as Senior Lecturer and Dr. Laura Ginters, her work has advanced understanding of theatre history and performance practices at the institution.