Dr Kelli Zezulka's Outputs (12)

The scenography of backstage labour at Eurovision (2025)
Book Chapter

This chapter explores the often-overlooked work of backstage crews at the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC). The labour of technical staff is a crucial part of the event's scenography, deserving equal attention to the onstage performances. Backstage work... Read More about The scenography of backstage labour at Eurovision.

Sustainability in technical theatre pedagogy and practice (2024)
Journal Article

In March 2023, third-year Technical Theatre (Production and Design) students at the University of Salford produced a festival of environmentally engaged design-led performance pieces focused on the climate crisis. All four productions were based on p... Read More about Sustainability in technical theatre pedagogy and practice.

Dementia Performance And Environment: An Exploration Of Dementia Friendly Performance And The Importance Of Space And Place (2024)
Thesis

This research looks at the design of the theatrical environment and how this is important in access to theatre for those living with dementia. It looks at the importance of scenography not just as a visual method of communication, but as a technique... Read More about Dementia Performance And Environment: An Exploration Of Dementia Friendly Performance And The Importance Of Space And Place.

On light (2023)
Journal Article
Palmer, S., Graham, K., & Zezulka, K. (2023). On light. Theatre and Performance Design, 9(3-4), 127-130. https://doi.org/10.1080/23322551.2023.2295688

Applying linguistics to theatre production processes: the strategic use of silence during technical rehearsals (2023)
Book Chapter
Zezulka, K. (2023). Applying linguistics to theatre production processes: the strategic use of silence during technical rehearsals. In S. Ainsworth, D. Griffiths, & K. Pahl (Eds.), Multimodality and Multilingualism: Towards an Integrative Approach. Multilingual Matters

While emerging scholars in applied linguistics are beginning to widen the scope of the field to include live and performing arts – for example, methods of creative inquiry (McKay and Bradley, 2016; Bradley and Harvey, 2019) and the impact of universi... Read More about Applying linguistics to theatre production processes: the strategic use of silence during technical rehearsals.

Language, creativity, and collaboration (2023)
Book Chapter
Zezulka, K. (2023). Language, creativity, and collaboration. In S. Palmer, J. McKinney, S. De Benedetto, & K. Graham (Eds.), Contemporary Performance Lighting: Experience, Creativity and Meaning. Bloomsbury Publishing

Introduction: Thinking Light (2023)
Book Chapter
Graham, K., Palmer, S., & Zezulka, K. (2023). Introduction: Thinking Light. In S. Palmer, J. McKinney, S. Di Benedetto, & K. Graham (Eds.), Contemporary Performance Lighting: Experience, Creativity and Meaning. Bloomsbury Publishing

Digital scenography: 30 years of experimentation and innovation in performance and interactive media (book review) (2022)
Other

Book review

Examining the pedagogy of theatre lighting (2020)
Journal Article
Zezulka, K. (2020). Examining the pedagogy of theatre lighting. Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, 11(1), 93-107. https://doi.org/10.1080/19443927.2019.1643401

This article addresses educational routes into theatre lighting for live performance as well as the
continuing development of lighting professionals once they enter the industry. Both aspects feed
into larger concerns about the industry as a whole:... Read More about Examining the pedagogy of theatre lighting.

The lighting programmer as creative collaborator (2019)
Journal Article

The lighting programmer as a discrete profession is a relatively recent development in UK theatre production and one whose job description and responsibilities vary widely. Being an excellent programmer is not merely a case of manual dexterity and sy... Read More about The lighting programmer as creative collaborator.

A linguistic ethnography of theatre production (2019)
Book Chapter

Performance lighting design: how to light for the stage, concerts and live events (2019)
Journal Article
Zezulka, K. Performance lighting design: how to light for the stage, concerts and live events. Theatre and Performance Design, 5(1-2), 158-160. https://doi.org/10.1080/23322551.2019.1595066