Alys Daroy
Artist-Academic
PhD (Theatre) Monash University; (English) Warwick University
Honours (First Class, English Literature) University of Adelaide
BA (English) University of Adelaide; BA (Journalism) UniSA
BA (Acting) AADA
Selected
P ro je ct s
IL VENTO, ecological adaptation of Shakespeare's work inspired by The Tempest. Commissioned by the International Shakespeare Association for the World Shakespeare Congress at the Conservatorio di Verona (2026)
Sydney's Food Landscapes: Agriculture, Planning, Sustainability (with Joshua Zeunert, Palgrave Macmillan, 2025).
"Anthropoiesis", Palazzo Bembo, Time, Space, Existence exhibition at the European Cultural Centre for the Venice Biennial, as part of the Venice Biennale, Italy (2023)
"InGrained" moving image and sound installation exhibited at Transversal, Form Gallery, WA (2025)
Shakespeare, Ecology, and Adaptation: A Practical Guide (with Paul Prescott, Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2025)
"Botanica Lumina" at the Botanic Garden of South Australia, and Twelfth Night at Carrick Hill House Museum and Garden, Shakespeare South (2021–2022)
"Opus Beethoven" with Thomas Rann (Cello), Vatche Jambazian (piano), Thibaud Pavlovic-Hobba (violin), Phoenix Arts & UTS (2021)
Scenes from the Climate Era by David Finnigan, Murdoch Creative Academy, Nexus Theatre (2024)
Selected past acting work
Selected
p ub lic a tio ns
1 / Book
Daroy, Alys and Prescott, Paul. 2025. Shakespeare, Ecology, and Adaptation: A Practical Guide, London: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare.
2 / Book
Zeunert, Joshua and Alys Daroy. 2025. Sydney’s Food Landscapes: Agriculture, Planning, Sustainability, Palgrave Macmillan.
3 / Journal Article
Zeunert, Joshua and Alys Daroy. 2025. ‘Counter Imaging Australia’s Agricultural Landscapes for Digital Sustainability Communication’, Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, 21 (1): 00–00.
4 / Journal Article
Daroy, Alys. 2025. ‘From Stanislavsky’s System to Ecosystem: Biophilic Landscape Mapping as a Tool for Actors’ Eco-Embodiment’, Stanislavski Studies, 13 (1): 17–37.
5 / Journal Article
Daroy, Alys, Murray, Leo, Trees, Kathryn and Zeunert, Joshua. 2025. ‘Anthropoiesis: Slow Listening to Scalar Extremes at the Venice Biennial’, Performance Research, 26 (9): 00–00.
6 / Journal Article
Daroy, Alys and Zeunert, Joshua. 2024. ‘Solidarity as Spectacle: Resistance, Resilience and Renewal in the Latvian Song and Dance Celebration’, RiDE: Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 29 (3): 422–438.
7 / Journal Article
Daroy, Alys. 2022. ‘I Would Give You Some Violets: Renaissance Collections, Shakespeare and the Troubled Act of Gathering’, Renaissance Studies: The Journal of the Ukrainian Shakespeare Institute, 12 (5): 118–143.
8 / Book Chapter
Daroy, Alys and Zeunert, Joshua. 2024. ‘Woke Ecology: How ‘Woke’ is Eco-Shakespeare?’, in Woke Shakespeare, edited by edited by Ian McCormick and Saptarshi Mallick, 193–208, London: Quibble Birmingham Academic.
9 / Book Chapter
Daroy, Alys, Zeunert, Joshua and Gairola, Rahul. 2024. ‘Waves of Cognition: Towards a Blue Shakespeare Ecocriticism’, in Critical Approaches to the Australian Blue Humanities, edited by Maxine Newlands and Claire Hansen, 211–220. London: Routledge.
