Ms Veronica BAXTER
Senior Lecturer, Drama Studies
University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Ms Baxter is an academic and researcher in Drama and Performance Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. Her research interests are Applied Theatre/Drama, and Theatre Anthropology (or performance studies).

She is the convenor of the biennial Dramatic Learning Spaces – a South African Research Conference, which has run since 2004. She is a former national President of the Southern African Association of Youth theatre (SAADYT), and member of the South African Society for Theatre Research and the International Federation of Theatre Research (IFTR/FIRT). She attempts to build communication between African practitioners of Applied Theatre. Ms Baxter also directs theatre and performs as a singer.