theatre-maker | writer-researcher | facilitator of work in progress |

Writings

2026 Tyler, L. ‘FACE THE FACT YOU’RE NOT DOING THE WORK YOU LOVE: embodying maternal separation distress on campus greenspace‘ in Maternal Ecologies: Feminist Practices of Motherhood, Land, and Creativity (Demeter Press).

2026 Corbett, P. Murjas, T. and Tyler L ‘The People of 1381: Gaming History from Below’ in Ollie Jones and Ellie Chadwick (eds.) Performing medievalism: tricks, tips and tropes from early artistic practice for the modern-day performer (in preparation).

2026 Corbett, P. Murjas, T. and Tyler L ‘The People of 1381: Staging History from Below’ in Ollie Jones and Ellie Chadwick (eds.) Performing medievalism: tricks, tips and tropes from early artistic practice for the modern-day performer (in preparation).

2025 Monograph: Tyler, L. English Play Development Under Neoliberalism: 2000-2020 (Cambridge University Press) – open access.

2025 Barnard, D., Tyler, L., & Woynarski, L. ‘Fast Familiar’s The Acquisitions Panel and the Decolonizing Potential of Interactive Performance’. Theatre Topics 35(2), 141-154. 

2025 Tyler, L. “Don’t fucking do it: reading mum-work inside play development” in The Methuen Drama Handbook of Women (Methuen). 6,500 words. (forthcoming)

2025 Bissell, L., & Tyler, L. ‘Term Time: A Revolutionary Lexicon for Mother-Demics – A Performance Text‘. Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement15(1. Spring / Fall), 22. 

2025 Tyler, L. and Woynarski, L. “Settler Aesthetics: Frosé Construction Capitalism & domestic scenographies” in Performing Homescapes (Palgrave). Contribution 50%. 7000 words.

2024 Tyler, L. “Unravelling and becoming more entangled in process: using performance to expand the practice of ‘commodity trailing’”, under review with Contemporary Theatre Review. 8000 words. 

2020 Tyler, L. “Almost, But Not Quite: reading debbie tucker green’s (sic) dramatury inside British Playwriting Studies” in Adiseshiah, S and Bolton J. (eds.) debbie tucker green: Critical Perspectives, Palgrave Macmillan, p.129-150. 7000 words.

2019 Tyler, L. “‘Responding to the thing that it is’: a study of new play development in English theatres” Studies in Theatre and Performance, Vol. 5: 1, p.17-30. 7000 words. 

2015 Tyler, L. “Collaborative Playwriting on Text Based Creative Writing Courses” Writing in Education, Vol. 66, p.1361-1439. 6500 words. 

2014 Tyler, L. and Saguaro, S. “Recuperating ‘Anon’: The Common Voice and the Uncovered Theatre” in Wright, E. H (ed) Bloomsbury Inspirations, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, p.205-226. Contribution: 50%. 7000 words. 

BOOK REVIEWS

2025 Tyler, L. Mothering performance: maternal action: by Lena Šimić and Emily Underwood-Lee, London, Routledge (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies), 2023, 260 pp., £100.00 (hardback), £31.99 (paperback), ISBN: 9781032138442. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 1–2 

2016 Tyler, L. Voice and New Writing 1997-2007: Articulating the Demos Book Review, Platform, Vol. 10:1, Spring, p.98-101. 800 words.