Parallel Evolution: Performance Studies at the University of Sydney

His ethnography of Hip Hop culture in the suburbs of Sydney, Australia, “Phat Beats, Dope Rhymes”: Hip Hop Down Under Comin' Upper, was published by Wesleyan Press in 2003. Prior to completing his PhD in 1997, he trained as a director at the Victorian College of the Arts School of Drama, and maintains an involvement in various forms of performance practice. He has published extensively in performance studies and youth and popular culture. His current research projects include the creation of digital performance histories of Urban Theatre Projects, a Sydney-based performance company, and an analysis of constructed ritual performances in Australian sports culture.