Ildiko Rippel

Ildikó is a senior lecturer at the University of Worcester and a performer, writer and director. She is co-founder of Anglo-German performance company Zoo Indigo, devising autobiographical performance that engages with social and political themes of gender, cultural identity, displacement and migration. Zoo Indigo’s work combines dark humour, song and multimedia in a postmodern and kaleidoscopic approach, producing politically charged performances. Ildikó has completed a Practice as Research PhD at Lancaster University, examining maternal performance and the presence of family members in contemporary theatre. Her current practice research with Zoo Indigo investigates multilingualism and dramaturgies of migration. Ildikó is currently working on her first monograph titled Performance and Real Relationships: Family, Intimacy and Domesticity in Contemporary Theatre, to be published with Bloomsbury in 2025. Ildikó previously worked as a lecturer at De Montfort University, Leicester (Drama and Performing Arts) and at Nottingham Trent University International College (Art and Design), and as an elf in a Santa's Grotto.