Tara Turnbull
PhD Candidate 2020-23
Tara Turnbull is an Actress. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Theatre & Philosophy from Bard College At Simon’s Rock, advised by Karen Beaumont and Dr. Brian Conolly, her Master of Fine Arts at University Of California Los Angeles’ School of Theatre, Film and Television, and her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing & Poetics from Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School Of Disembodied Poetics, advised by Dr. Mairead Case. She is a postgraduate research student with The Transart Institute For Creative Research and Liverpool John Moores University’s School Of Art & Design inaugural partnership.
praxis statement
My praxis is Acting, its performance, preparations and processes, emphasizing auteur action. My creative research practice spans textual landscapes and a performative spectrum. I analyze aesthetics as actional / gestural vernaculars and vocabularies. My roles as actress and as student are reflexes of one another, reflect upon one another.
research interest
My current art / research interests include story, scholarly portraiture, biographical film, practice as research, performance philosophy, and contemplative poetics.