Deirdre Heddon (born 1969), is Professor of Contemporary Performance at the University of Glasgow (UK). She is a practice-based researcher and has published articles in peer-reviewed journals, as well as academic monographs and book-chapters. She is well known for her interest in autobiographical performance, site-specific performance and walking art.

Career

Heddon is the author of multiple books, book chapters and journal articles. She authored Autobiography and Performance, and co-author of Devising Performance: A Critical History (both published by Palgrave Macmillan).^[1][2] Her edited collection, Histories and Practices of Live Art, co-edited with Jennie Klein, was published in 2012 by Palgrave Macmillan.^[3]

Heddon has written a number of texts about walking and performance, and is connected with the Walking Artists Network.^[4] She contributed a chapter to Walking, Writing and Performance: Autobiographical Texts,^[5] and has written a number of articles about walking and performance, including, ‘Walking and Friendship’ (2012);^[6] Walking Women: Interviews with Artists on the Move;^[7] Women Walking: Shifting the Tales and Scales of Mobility (2012), with Cathy Turner;^[8] and The Horizon of Sound: Soliciting the Earwitness (2010).^[9] She also co-edited a themed edition of RIDE: A Journal of Applied Drama, which focused on applied theatre and environmentalism (2012). Heddon is co-editing a newly launched series for Palgrave Macmillan, Performing Landscapes, for which she is writing Performing Landscapes: Forests.

Practice-based Research

Heddon undertakes practice-based research, much of it in relation to walking. Her project, Walking Interconnections, extends her interest in walking and environmentalism to questions around disability as well.^[10] With Misha Myers she created The Walking Library (2012-ongoing),^[11] an artwork and research project that 'brings libraries into the landscape through site-specific walks.'^[4]:287 In recognition of her fortieth birthday she devised 40 Walks, for which she organised forty walks with forty different people.^[12]

Selected publications

Articles:

• Heddon, D. (2016) Engaging arts, impacting PaR. Studies in Theatre and Performance, 36(1), pp. 79–87. (doi:10.1080/14682761.2015.1111016)
• Heddon, D. (2015) Going for a walk: a verbatim play. Studies in Theatre and Performance, 35(3), pp. 177–188. 10.1080/14. (doi:10.1080/14682761.2015.1067387)
• Heddon, D., and Myers, M. (2014) Stories from the walking library. Cultural Geographies, 21(4), pp. 639–655. (doi:10.1177/1474474014521361)
• Heddon, D., and Myers, M. (2013) The Walking Library. [Blog],
• Heddon, D., and Mackey, S. (2012) Environmentalism, performance and applications: uncertainties and emancipations. Research in Drama Education, 17(2), pp. 163–192. (doi:10.1080/13569783.2012.670421)
• Heddon, D. (2012) Turning 40: 40 turns. Walking & friendship. Performance Research, 17(2), pp. 67–75. (doi:10.1080/13528165.2012.671075)
• Heddon, D., Iball, H., and Zerihan, R. (2012) Come closer: confessions of intimate spectators in one to one performance. Contemporary Theatre Review, 22(1), pp. 120–133. (doi:10.1080/10486801.2011.645233)
• Heddon, D., and Turner, C. (2012) Walking women: shifting the tales and scales of mobility. Contemporary Theatre Review, 22(2), pp. 224–236. (doi:10.1080/10486801.2012.666741)
• Heddon, D., and Howells, A. (2011) From talking to silence: a confessional journey. PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, 33(1), pp. 1–12. (doi:10.1162/PAJJ_a_00018)
• Heddon, D. (2010) The horizon of sound: soliciting the earwitness. Performance Research, 15(3), pp. 36–42. (doi:10.1080/13528165.2010.527200)
• Heddon, D., and Kelly, A. (2010) Distance dramaturgy. Performance Research, 20(2), pp. 214–220. (doi:10.1080/10486801003682427)
• Heddon, D., and Turner, C. (2010) Walking women: interviews with artists on the move. Performance Research, 15(4), pp. 14–22. (doi:10.1080/13528165.2010.539873)
• Heddon, D. (2009) 40 Walks Blog. [Blog],
• Heddon, D. (2007) Ac/counting the I's. Research in Drama Education, 12(2), pp. 207–222. (doi:10.1080/13569780701321203)
• Heddon, D. (2007) One square foot: thousands of routes. PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, 29(2), pp. 40–50. (doi:10.1162/pajj.2007.29.2.40)
• Heddon, D. (2003) Glory box: Tim Miller's autobiography of the future. New Theatre Quarterly, 19(3), pp. 243–256. (doi:/10.1017/S0266464X03000149)
• Heddon, D. (2002) Following in the footsteps... Performance Research, 7(4),
• Heddon, D. (2002) Performing the archive: following in the footsteps. Performance Research, 7(4), pp. 64–77.
• Heddon, D. (2002) Autotopography: graffiti, landscapes and selves. Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, 2(3),
• Heddon, D. (2002) Performing the self. M/C Journal, 5(5),
• Heddon, D. (1998) What's in a name? Studies in Theatre Production, 18, pp. 49–59.

Books:

• Heddon, D., and Milling, J. (2015) Devising Performance: A Critical History, 2nd Edition. Series: Theatre and performance practices. Palgrave Macmillan: London. ISBN 9781137426772
• Heddon, D., Lavery, C., and Smith, P. (2009) Walking, Writing and Performance: Autobiographical Texts. Intellect Books: Bristol. ISBN 9781841501550
• Heddon, D.E. (2007) Autobiography and Performance. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230537538
• Heddon, D., and Milling, J. (2005) Devising Performance: A Critical History. Palgrave. ISBN 1403906637

Book sections:

• Heddon, D. (2016) Con-versing: listening, speaking, turning. In: Bastian, M., Jones, O., Moore, N. and Roe, E. (eds.) More-Than-Human Participatory Research. Series: Routledge studies in human geography. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138957350 (Accepted for Publication)
• Heddon, D. (2015) Hand in Hand. In: Campbell, A. and Farrier, S. (eds.) Queer Dramaturgies: International Perspectives on Where Performance Leads Queer. Palgrave Macmillan: London. ISBN 9781137411839
• Heddon, D. (2015) The cultivation of entangled listening: an ensemble of more-than-human participants. In: Nicholson, H. and Harpin, A. (eds.) Performance and Participation: Practices, Audiences, Politics. Palgrave Macmillan:
• Heddon, D. (2015) Making it up. In: Carter, P. and Laing, S. (eds.) Paul Bright’s Confessions of a Justified Sinner. Oberon Books Ltd.: London. ISBN 9781783199495
• Heddon, D. (2015) Correspondences. In: MacDonald, C. (ed.) Utopia: Three Plays for a Postdramatic Theatre. Series: Playtext. Intellect: Bristol. ISBN 9781783204625
• Heddon, D. (2015) Taking a seat at the table. In: Harvie, J. and Weaver, L. (eds.) The Only Way Home is Through the Show. Series: Intellect Live. LADA/Intellect: London. ISBN 9781783205349
• Heddon, D. (2012) The politics of live art. In: Heddon, D. and Klein, J. (eds.) Histories and Practice of Live Art. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 9780230229730
• Heddon, D. (2011) Walk this way. In: Tuukkanen, J., Whelan, G., Jaakkola, M. and Tervo, L. (eds.) ANTIVERSARY. ANTI Festival: Kuopio, Finland, pp. 123–133. ISBN 9789525870534
• Heddon, D. (2009) One square foot: thousands of roots. In: Mock, R. (ed.) Walking, Writing and Performance: Autobiographical Texts. Intellect Books: Bristol, UK, pp. 153–177. ISBN 9781841501550
• Heddon, D. (2009) To absent friends: ethics in the field of auto/biography. In: Haedicke, S.C., Heddon, D., Oz, A. and Westlake, E.J. (eds.) Political Performances: Theory and Practice. Series: Themes in theatre (4). Rodopi: Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 111–136. ISBN 9789042026063
• Heddon, D. (2009) Tree: a studio performance. In: Mock, R. (ed.) Walking, Writing and Performance: Autobiographical Texts. Intellect Books: Bristol, UK, pp. 143–152. ISBN 9781841501550
• Heddon, D. (2008) What's in a name? In: It's Not Hard: Reflections on Live Art. Tramway, pp. 32–37. ISBN 9781899551439
• Heddon, D. (2007) A visitor's guide to Glasgay. In: Godiwala, D. (ed.) Alternatives Within the Mainstream II: Queer Theatres in Post-War Britain. Cambridge Scholars Press: Cambridge, pp. 339–361. ISBN 9781847183064
• Heddon, D. (2006) Beyond the self: autobiography as dialogue. In: Wallace, C. (ed.) Monologues: Theatre, Performance, Subjectivity. Litteraria Pragensia: Prague, pp. 157–184. ISBN 8073081229
• Heddon, D. (2006) Performing the confessional. In: Mathé, S. and Teulié, G. (eds.) Cultures de la Confession: Formes de l'Aveu dans le Monde Anglophone. Series: Mondes anglophones. Publications de l'Université de Provence: Aix-en-Provence, France. ISBN 9782853996471
• Heddon, D. (2006) Personal performance: the resistant confessions of Bobby Baker. In: Gill, J. (ed.) Modern Confessional Writing: New Critical Essays. Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature. Routledge: Oxon, pp. 137–153. ISBN 9780415339698
• Heddon, D. (2006) The politics of the personal: autobiography in performance. In: Aston, E. and Harris, G. (eds.) Feminist Futures? Theatre, Performance, Theory. Series: Performance interventions. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 9781403945327
• Heddon, D. (2004) Performing lesbians: constructing the self, constructing the community. In: Gale, M. (ed.) Autobiography and Identity: Women, Theatre and Performance. Manchester University Press: Manchester, pp. 217–238. ISBN 9780719063336

Edited books:

• Heddon, D. and Johnson, D., (Eds.) (2016) It's All Allowed: The Performances of Adrian Howells. Series: Intellect Live. Intellect. ISBN 9781783205899
• Heddon, D. and Klein, J., (Eds.) (2012) Histories and Practices of Live Art. Palgrave Macmillan: London. ISBN 9780230229730
• Heddon, D., Klein, J. and Milican, N., (Eds.) (2010) The National Review of Live Art 1979-2010: A Personal History (Essays, Anecdotes, Drawings and Images). New Moves International: Glasgow, UK.
• Haedicke, S.C., Heddon, D., Oz, A. and Westlake, E.J., (Eds.) (2009) Political Performances: Theory and Practice. Series: Themes in theatre. Rodopi: Amsterdam, Netherlands. ISBN 9789042026063

Audio:

• Heddon, D. (2014) Going for a Walk: A Verbatim Audio Walk. [Audio]