My interdisciplinary research career is updated here. You can also download a full CV (updated 2011) that details both my theatre and interdisciplinary research career.

Complete CV

I became interested in synthetic actors having worked with human ones. Here is a link to are a few images from my human work.

Christopher Newell has 25 years' experience of theatre and performance including the management of national and international touring, writing, directing and concept development. As an assistant director he assisted Trevor Nunn at Glyndebourne, and Sir Peter Hall at Glyndebourne, The Royal Opera House Covent Garden, The National Theatre and the West End where he taught Dustin Hoffman Shakespearian verse speaking. He directed for Mid Wales Opera, The Aldeburgh Festival and was director of opera for the London Symphony Orchestra. He taught at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, The Royal College of Music, Trinity College, The Royal Academy, The Birmingham Conservatoire and the Universities of Birmingham and York. In 1986 he set up the Modern Music Theatre Troupe with Paul Barker, specialising in the performance of new music theatre, devising and producing over 20 world premieres.

In 2000 he retrained in digital media and computer science. He has an MSc (dist.) from the University of Huddersfield and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of York. He is subject group leader in Digital Media at the University of Hull specializing in performance and creative technologies. In 2010 he was awarded a Wingate Scholarship to research creative computer speech at the University of York and is the recipient of an EPSRC grant to develop the Creative Speech Technology Network (CreST Network) http://crestnetwork.org.uk/. In 2011 he set the Interdisciplinary and Collaborative Practices Cluster (ICP Cluster) http://icpcluster.org/ to develop interdisciplinary projects at the University of Hull. In 2012 he will collaborate with Professor Roger Moore (The Speech and Hearing Group University of Sheffield) on an Interdisciplinary book entitled 'Computers as Voice Actors'.