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Short autobiography Maureen Thomas (Writer/Director/ Developer/Dramaturge) is a Senior Research Fellow of Churchill College, University of Cambridge. From 1993 – 1998 she was a Head Tutor at the National Film and Television School, UK (from 1986- 1993 a visiting tutor), where, as well as developing productions across fiction, documentary and animation, she led the NFTS’ successful Digital and Interactive Studio initiative, funded in 1996 through the Department of Trade and Industry, UK, Technology Foresight Challenge. Maureen is Visiting Professor in Narrativity and Interactivity at the Norwegian Film SchooI, Helsinki, and a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Digital Creativity. She is also on the Board of UK Screen Agency Screen East. For NM2 (New Media, New Millennium), Maureen has developed an original interactive production, RuneCast, incorporating chance operations and oral composition techniques as personalised music and video narrative, and led two productions which repurpose miniseries for interactive broadband: Gods in the Sky Choice (documentary+drama originally produced by WagTV/C4), and Gormenghast Explore (from BBC TV Drama, Gormenghast). Maureen’s other work includes: International UNESCO/NCF New Media Expo, Reykjavik 2003; Cambridge International Film Festival, 2001 (shortlisted for BAFTA interactive award nomination): full-length interactive movie, Vala; Anglia TV/UK Film Council, 2004: Unreal City (animation, d. Peter Addington); Wall to Wall TV/ Channel 4 TV/Discovery Channel, 2002 & 2004: Iceworld (drama-doc d.Tim Lambert); Covent Garden Opera House Linbury Studio, 2001: Lombroso in About Face (music Rachel Leach); New End Theatre, London, 2001: Alice (from Lewis Caroll’s Through the Looking Glass) (m.d. Stephen Daltry); Moviemakers 1996: Goodbye Thirteen (d. Sirin Eide) [Jury and Audience awards for Best Film International Festivals Frankfurt 1996 and Antwerp 1997]. In 2004-2006, for LUME Crucible Finland, Maureen developed RunoTanssi, a reconfigurable multimedia dance/music performance (Gloria Theatre, Helsinki; Kuopio International Festival).
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