training:

1988-90:
postgraduate diploma in dramatherapy (CNAA)
hertfordshire college of art and design. st. alban's, herts.

1990-92:
MA dramatherapy (cum laude)
university of hertfordshire

thesis: "splitting and mirroring: mimetic enactment and mirroring in the spilt-gender role conflict of adolescent homosexual male prostitutes."

2000:
Ph.D in Drama
university of exeter

doctorate thesis: "the queer carnival: gender transgressive images in contemporary queer performance and their relationship to carnival and the grotesque."