Soseh Yekanians
PhD research set out to investigate how a culturally displaced individual could find a sense of identity through theatre directing, and the multiple incentives that theatre directing offered as an authoritative profession.
Australia °1981
affiliation: Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University
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Soseh Yekanians graduated from the Australian Academy of Dramatic Art in Sydney with an Advanced Diploma in Arts (Acting) and a Bachelor of Performance. In 2005 she was invited to attend The Atlantic Theater Company Acting School in New York, to completed the 2-Year Professional Acting Conservatory Program. Currently she is a Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD) candidate in Performing Arts at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) in Perth. Her research specialises in theatre directing with a special interest in cultural stereotype and identity formation.
Soseh’s research, Creatively Pursuing Persona: Finding Identity through Directing, primarily investigates the links between cultural displacement, identity and that individual’s impetus behind pursuing a career within the creative arts, specifically in theatre directing.
Throughout her career whilst following her performing arts endeavours, Soseh has developed a strong teaching base working as a director, acting coach and private acting consultant for performing arts institutions and elite talent agencies both in Australia and overseas.
During her time as a researcher at WAAPA, Soseh was a 2012 and 2013 finalist in the national three-minute thesis competition (3MT®). Similarly, she participated as presenter in both annual CREATEC Symposia and in 2013, two of her directed works were accepted for the Office of Research and Innovation by Edith Cowan University.