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Georgia Bowers is a nationally recognised scholar practitioner who specialises in creating theatre with older adults in non-traditional spaces such as care homes, hospitals, sheltered housing accommodation and day centres. Her research examines how applied theatre can challenge ageism and act as an intervention towards ageist induced shame by encouraging shame resilience. 

Georgia is an Associate Lecturer at the Guildford School of Acting (University of Surrey), University of Chichester and the University of Portsmouth. She is a member of the Portsmouth Dementia Action Alliance and is the Graduate School Representative for the Association for Theatre in Higher Education: Wellness, Community and Ageing Focus Group (North America). Georgia is also a trustee of London Bubble Theatre Company. 

Her professional creative engagements to date have included: Royal Opera House, Chichester Festival Theatre, Brighton People's Theatre, Spare Tyre, Young Carers: BUCKS, London Bubble, Hampstead Theatre, Almeida Theatre, Centre Point, Watford Palace Theatre and Theatre Royal Windsor.