Research

Rebecca is also a researcher in the field of musical theatre. Previously she has been a Lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University, Goldsmiths College and Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, and currently supervises dissertation students at Urdang Academy. For her PhD she created a model for looking at dynamic shaping in musical theatre, and applied it in analysis to musical that are based on tropes of the Beauty and the Beast tale. She is a founder member of the British Musical Theatre Research Institute and is currently part of the ‘Original Cast Recordings’ Research Network.

Her book The Musical Theatre Composer as Dramatist was published by Bloomsbury this year.

The Musical Theatre Composer as Dramatist: A Handbook for Collaboration published by Bloomsbury

Further Publications

Applin Warner, R. (2019) ‘Musematic Relationships in Jeanine Tesori’s Score for Fun Home.’ Ed. Whitfield, S. Reframing the Musical. Red Globe Press.

Warner, R. (2017) ‘Attracting the Family Market’. Eds. Jubin, O. and Gordon, R. The Oxford Handbook of the British Musical. Oxford University Press.

Warner, R. (2015) ‘The Beautify and the Beast Trope in Modern Musical Theatre’ Studies in Musical Theatre. Intellect.