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Tim Keenan
Dr. Tim Keenan lectures in Drama at the University of Queensland. His main research interests are centred on English Restoration theatre (1660-1700): particularly scenic staging 1660-1674. He also has a practice-led interest in modern Japanese theatre, especially the plays of Hirata Oriza. Before becoming an academic, Tim directed several plays in London, including the European premiere of Betsuyaku Minoru’s The Elephant, which won an inaugural Japan Festival Fund award in 1994. At the University of Hull, he also directed large-scale productions of John Dryden and William Davenant’s 1667 adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest (2007), and the first English-language production of Hirata Oriza’s The Scientifically Minded, which toured to the Agora Theatre, Tokyo in April 2010.