Biography

Heike Roms is Lecturer in Performance Studies at Aberystwyth University.

She has published widely on contemporary performance practice, in particular on work originating from Wales. Future plans include a history of Welsh performance art and a book on the relationship between performance and ecology in a Welsh context. Heike has collaborated with a number of Welsh artists on a variety of performance works and is involved in several artist-led projects and networks in Wales. She sits on the board of directors of trace: installaction artspace and served as vice-chair and theatre consultant on the editorial board of New Welsh Review, Wales' leading literary journal in English. She also co-chairs the 2nd Wednesday group, a network of artists, writers, students and teachers involved in performance, live art and interdisciplinary practice, which she co-founded in 2001. A consultant editor for Performance Research, she edited the issues 'On Tourism' and 'On Archives and Archiving' for the journal.

Until recently, she was a member of the board of directors of PSi PERFORMANCE STUDIES international, a worldwide membership association for scholars and artists working in performance. She served as the organisation's administrator between 1998 and 2001, and organised the 5th Performance Studies Conference in Aberystwyth 1999, 'Here be Dragons'. Originally from Germany, Heike studied German literature, philosophy and musicology at the University of Hamburg. Between 1986 and 1994, she was involved in organising the theatre programme for the Kampnagelfabrik Hamburg, including a four years as head of press and publicity for the Internationales Sommertheater Festival Hamburg. She has lived in Wales since 1995.

Heike Roms is a Founding Member of TRAWS - Inter-University Research Group for Performance in Wales.