Alyson Campbell is a freelance director and dramaturg whose work spans a broad range of companies and venues in Australia, the UK and the US over the last 30 years. Works include Feral Queer Camp, promiscuous/cities, Cake Daddy, Colder, DFLTLX, GL RY/WHoLE, The Trouble with Harry and Catapult.

Alyson is a Professor in Theatre at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, where her research, artistic practice as a director, teaching and activism converge around gender and sexuality, particularly queer performance and dramaturgies and contemporary representations of HIV and AIDS. She likes to write about feral pedagogies and is passionate about Feral Queer Camping.

Alyson completed a Practice as Research (PaR) PhD at the University of Melbourne (2009). The thesis, 'Experiencing Kane: an affective approcah to Sarah Kane's experiential theatre in performance', included direction of Kane's 4.48 Psychosis at Red Stitch Actors Theatre, Melbourne, 2007. She holds an MA in Theatre Studies and a BA Hons in Russian from Leeds University, UK, and a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) in Drama from Goldsmiths College, London. Alyson has worked as a lecturer in theatre studies/drama in the School of Creative Arts, The University of Melbourne, Queen's University Belfast and Brunel University, London.

Alyson is a freelance director and dramaturg and has worked in a broad range of situations over the last 30 years: form the four-stage Los Angeles Theatre Cente, through Fringe, independent and community theatre, to making forum theatre with secondary students. Alyson's research, artistic practice as a director, teaching and activism converge around gender and sexuality, particularly queer performance and dramaturgies and contemporary representations of HIV and AIDS. She has written widely on these areas, most notably co-editing the collection Queer Dramaturgies: International Perspectives on Where Performance Leads Queer (Palgrave, 2015) with Prof. Stephen Farrier, and shortlisted for the Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA) editing award. She also co-edited HIV and AIDS Performance in the Twenty-First Century: An International Collection' with Prof. Dirk Gindt (Palgrave, 2018).

Alyson's focus is around the nexus of queer theories and feminism. She is committed to queer representation and works closely with the community, largely through her work with queer arts festivals. She established and convened a performance and research programme Queer at Queen's at Queen's University as part of Outburst Queer Arts Festival. She co-founded the Queer Futures Working Group for the International Federation of Theatre Research (IFTR), which is a vibrant network developing the work of queer performance scholarship and she is currently on the Executive Committee of IFTR.

Much of Alyson's practice as a theatre maker and scholar is realised in large-scale practice-led research projects. These include her thesis, on Kane's 4.48 Psychosis (2002-9), developing dramaturgical and directing strategies that respond to theories of affect;Bison (2008-11), encompassing directing Lachlan Philpott's play of that name in Belfast and London, and writing about gay male sexualities; The Trouble with Harry (2010-2014), including directing the premiere of Philpott's historical play in Belfast (2013) and for the Melbourne International Arts Festival (2014), the latter production winning Green Room awards for best direction and production in the Independent category. Current work includes Feral Queer Camp, a community-based project developing ways to think about queer performance in partnership with queer arts festivals (2018-present).