Deirdre Osborne

Deirdre Osborne is a Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London. She has edited an anthology of new Black British plays and critical essays titled Hidden Gems (2008). She is currently writing a monograph, Critically Black: Black British Dramatists and Theatre in the New Millennium (Manchester University Press) and is editor of a forthcoming book of critical essays and writers' reflections, Contradictions and Heritages: Contemporary Black British Women's...See more

Deirdre Osborne is a Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London. She has edited an anthology of new Black British plays and critical essays titled Hidden Gems (2008). She is currently writing a monograph, Critically Black: Black British Dramatists and Theatre in the New Millennium (Manchester University Press) and is editor of a forthcoming book of critical essays and writers' reflections, Contradictions and Heritages: Contemporary Black British Women's Writing. She teaches numerous undergraduate courses including African American theatre history, culture and performance, modernism and post-colonial theatre. See less