Karmenlara Ely

Karmenlara Ely is Professor / Artistic Director of the BA Acting and MA Performance programs at Østfold University College/Norwegian Theatre Academy. She is part of the leadership responsible for the artistic network, educational development and research platforms of NTA. Before NTA, Karmenlara taught full time at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she holds a PhD in Performance Studies.  As a multi-disciplinary artist, she collaborates internationally on theatre and performance works and other collective events, where sharing practice across borders is in focus. The work often concerns topics such as archives and spectres, intergenerational relations and the boundaries or limits of performance and ethics in collective processes. She is the author of several public performance lectures and articles, and co-editor of several books on performance research. Karmenlara is also a former member of the board of Norwegian Program for Artistic Research / DIKU and SAAR, Professor II in Tromsø at University of the Arctic in addition to the work at NTA. She continually supervises PhD students in artistic research in the Nordic context.