Naomi Boyce (New York, 1992) is currently a doctoral researcher at the Collaborative Research Center 1512 “Intervening Arts” at Freie Universität Berlin. Her dissertation project examines the dynamics of participation and dissociation in contemporary activist performance. From 2015-16 she was a Fulbright Fellow at the Freie Universiät Berlin, where she also completed her MA in Theatre Studies with a thesis titled “Violence, Theatre and Other Devised Acts”. From 2018-2022 she worked as a Student Assistant for the International Research Centre “Interweaving Performance Cultures”, also at the Freie Universität Berlin, where she was involved in the copyediting of several edited volumes. In addition to her academic work, she is also a translator of German-language contemporary plays and performance texts.

SoSe 2024

Theater und Protest seit 1968 bis in die Gegenwart (Theatre and Protest from 1968 to the Present) (together with Judith Henrike Pieper, Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Theaterwissenschaft

WiSe 2023/24

Einfürhung in die Aufführungsanalyse (Introduction to Performance Analysis) (together with Dr. Torsten Jost, Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Theaterwissenschaft)

WiSe 2022/23

Einfürhung in die Aufführungsanalyse (Introduction to Performance Analysis) (together with Dr. Torsten Jost, Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Theaterwissenschaft)

SoSe 2022

Einfürhung in die Aufführungsanalyse (Introduction to Performance Analysis) (together with Dr. Torsten Jost, Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Theaterwissenschaft)

Edited Volumes

Politics of Dis/Assembling. Reflections on Artistic and Activist Interventions. Berlin/Rotterdam: HumDrum Press 2026 (forthcoming). Together with Sambojang Ceesay, Judith H. Pieper, Lena Pozdnyakova, João Rizek and Luise Willer.

Digital Interventions. Bodies, Infrastructures, Politics. Zürich: diaphanes 2026 (forthcoming). Together with Matthias Grotkopp, Iryna Kovalenko, Florian Schlittgen, Simon Teune and Brigitte Weingart. 

Articles

"Partizipative und dissoziative Dynamiken des Intervenierens [Participative and dissociative Dynamics of Intervening]", in Jürgen Brokoff, Karin Gludovatz und Matthias Warstat (Hg.): Intervenierende Künste. Begriffe – Verfahren – Prozesse [Intervening Arts. Terms – Methods – Processes]. Zürich: diaphanes 2026 (forthcoming). Together with Judith H. Pieper and Matthias Warstat.

„Dissidente Gegenöffentlichkeiten: LASTESIS’ Un violador en tu camino [Dissident Counterpublics: LASTESIS' Un violador en tu camino]“, in Birgit Eusterschulte, Marla Heid, Henning Podulski u. a. (Hg.): Gegen/Öffentlichkeiten. Ästhetiken, Materialitäten und Praktiken künstlerischer Interventionen [Counter/Publics. Aesthetics, Materialities and Practices of Artistic Intervention]. Zürich: diaphanes 2026 (forthcoming).

"Entscheidungsfindung und Gewalt-Tun: Wie devising dissoziiert und kollektiviert [Decision-making and Doing Violence: How devising dissociates and collectivizes"], in Ludger Schwarte und Matthias Warstat (Hg.), Entscheidung - Intervention - Kollektiv [Decision - Intervention - Collective] (Paragrana: Internationale Zeitschrift für Historische Anthropologie 2023, Volume 32, Issue 2), Berlin: de Gruyter 2023, 186-199.

Short Texts

"Thornton Wilder besucht Berlin [Thornton Wilder visits Berlin]" and "Brecht-Forschung in Westberlin [Brecht Research in West Berlin]". In: Front – Stadt – Institut. Theaterwissenschaft an der Freien Universität 1948-1968. Edited by Peter Jammerthal and Jan Lazardzig. Berlin: Verbrecher Verlag 2018, 157-165.

Translations

Directing Theatre and Performance in China Today: Twelve Directors’ First-Hand Accounts. Edited by Tian Mansha and Torsten Jost, translated from the German by Naomi Boyce and from the Chinese by Stefan Christ. London: Routledge 2026 (forthcoming)

Conference Presentations

“Intervention Ekstasis and Dissociation”, International Federation of Theatre Research Conference (Cologne), June 9-13, 2025

“What tragedies do we need? On Antigone Today”, International Federation of Theatre Research Conference (Manila), July 15-19, 2024

“Intervention as (Dis)Assembly: Fragilities and Forces of Activist Performance”, Performance Studies International #29 ASSEMBLE Conference (London), June 20-23, 2024

 “Semiotics now! Antagonistic Fields of Encounter”, International Federation for Theatre Research Conference (Accra), July 24-28, 2023

 “Undoing obsolescence: creative approaches to theatrical/digital intervention analysis“, ipb Annual Conference (Berlin), September 15, 2022