dr. janet gibson
is a creative care practitioner and certified TimeSlips Facilitator working with elders and people living with dementia in Randwick City. She is a part-time drama therapist in a Randwick residential aged care home, conducting Theatre Games, Mini Theatres, Life Stories work and TimeSlips storytelling with the residents.
She was one of three people recently awarded a mini-mentorship with Arts Health Network.
She is a trained actor (Uta Hagen, HB Studios, New York) with stage shows in New York and Sydney as well as a theatre and performance studies scholar (PhD).
She is the author of ‘Dementia, Narrative and Performance: Staging Reality, Reimagining Identities' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) with contributions to ‘Performance Research’, ‘Research in Drama Education: Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance’ and ‘Contemporary Narratives of Ageing, Illness, Care’ (Routledge, 2022).
She is also co-convenor of the Performance, Health and Creative Care Working Group of the Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies and a founding member of the Sydney Care Lab, associated with the The Care Lab, Manchester, UK. She also works as a sessional academic at UNSW. She recently convened the 3rd year undergraduate ARTS& HEALTH course in the School of Arts and Media.