Susan Croft

Dr Susan Croft is a writer, curator, archive adviser and Director of Unfinished Histories, the oral and archival history project on Alternative Theatre in Britain: www.unfinishedhistories.com where you can find a more detailed bibliography. She also runs SuffrageArts, exploring the suffrage movement through art and theatre in exhibitions, events and workshops and the blog Her Inside: Women in the Lockdown. Founder Director of New Playwrights Trust, she went on to work in academia before becoming Senior Curator (Contemporary Performance) at the V&A Theatre Museum, where she edited Black and Asian Performance at the Theatre Museum: a Users’ Guide (2004) and curated major exhibitions at the V&A on Edward Gordon Craig and Tanya Moiseiwitsch; Paul Robeson; Architects of Fantasy / Forkbeard Fantasy and the Redgraves and their history on the public stage. As a freelance curator she has created exhibitions on women’s suffrage, on Black Theatre in Britain and numerous exhibitions and displays on aspects of alternative theatre history.