Performative Healing and Art Researcher
Damian Enyaosah is a theatre arts scholar-practitioner. He holds a BA and MA in Theatre Arts from the University of Lagos, Nigeria. Currently a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Texas at Dallas, with an additional MA in Visual and Performing Arts. He is a member of the African Theatre Association and the North American Drama Therapy Association. Enyaosah is a member and past Fellow of the Lagos Studies Association. Directorial work and artistic collaborations at UTDallas include Winsor and Gertie (UTD Theatre, 2023), Beyond Limitations (UTD Theatre, 2021), and The Untellable Reality (ArtSciLab Performance Installation, 2022). He is passionate about global theatre studies on the sustainable promotion of culture-specific and indigenous performative modes for curative purposes. His research interests include theatre theory and directing, posthumanist performance, African festival and ritual aesthetics, art history and ethnomedicine, performative healing, and African diaspora studies.
Enyaosah’s visionary objective is to theorize and promote ways of aesthetically infusing indigenous oral traditions into the modern clinical practice of creative art –drama, and therapy, acknowledging the global advancement in digital media. Furthermore, this has led him to research presentations on indigenous rituals and the growing trends of multimedia performance installations as contemporary artistic processes for immersion, cognition, embodiment, and engagement.