Charlotte Farrell is Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of New South Wales. Her research examines contemporary live performance and its relationship to bodies, affect, and social space. With a particular investment in queer and feminist performance making, Charlotte’s research is articulated through historically-situated written accounts, as well as her own embodied art practice. She is the author of the book, Barrie Kosky on the Contemporary Australian Stage: Affect, Post-Tragedy, Emergency (Routledge, 2021) and co-author of How to Play in Slow Time: Creativity, Pedagogy, Process (Brill, 2025).

Charlotte's work has been published in Australasian Drama Studies, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Contemporary Theatre Review, Theatre Survey, Somatechnics, Peripeti, Media International Australia, RealTime Arts, and the books, Corporeality and Culture and Barrie Kosky's Transnational Theatres. In New York City where she was based from 2013-2020, Charlotte held positions as Segal Theatre Center Visiting Scholar at CUNY, Director of Rox Contemporary Art Gallery, Executive Director of CPR - Center for Performance Research, and Adjunct Instructor in the Dramatic Literature Program at NYU. In 2023, Charlotte co-founded performance company Body of Work with multi-award winning performance artist, Betty Grumble. Currently, she lives on the unceded lands of the Gadigal and Wangal Peoples.