Nicholas Johnson

Nicholas co-founded the Trinity Centre for Beckett Studies, within which he co-directs the Beckett Summer School and the Samuel Beckett Laboratory. He has published widely in journals and edited collections on adaptations and intermedial performances of Beckett, directing and acting Beckett, Beckett and censorship, and the use of performance as a tool for research. 

A further research interest relates to how theatre laboratory work can generate new knowledge for more interdisciplinary contexts in a wide range of fields. Nicholas has undertaken numerous practice-based research projects, including collaborations with literature scholars, art historians, educators, translators, sociologists, historians, computer scientists, and medical clinicians in which performance has played a crucial role. 

As convenor of the Creative Arts Practice college-wide research theme, and as committee member of both the Neurohumanities and Medical and Health Humanities initiatives at Trinity, Johnson's research is extending the role of theatre and performance in these alternative settings.