Dominic Chamayou-Douglas is a playwright, translator, producer and theatre scholar. He is currently studying for a PhD Cotutelle at the Universities of Kent (UK) and Lille (Fr) on the topic of contemporary theatre translation between France and the United Kingdom. Some other areas of interest include contemporary playwrighting, the sociology of translation, cultural theory and comparative studies. He has written and spoken about the impact of AI on playwrighting at conferences in France, the UK and Japan . As a practicing playwright, his work has been performed in the UK and France in venues including the Bush theatre, Oran Mor and Les Feux de la Rampe. From 2016-19, he co-founded and produced the Paris Fringe festival, an international festival of contemporary theatre and performance, involving over fifty productions in venues across the French capital.
