Hollywood Star and BAFTA Winner Lands University of Oxford Role as Visiting Professor
The Oscar winner will lead conversations, lectures and student engagement while continuing stage and screen work.
- Acclaimed actor Cate Blanchett has been named the Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre at St Catherine's College, University of Oxford, for the 2026/27 academic year.
- Established in 1990 through a gift from Sir Cameron Mackintosh, the Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professorship has brought significant figures into 'direct dialogue' with students for more than 30 years.
- During her tenure, Blanchett will engage with students and contribute to lectures, drawing on her experience as former co-artistic director of the Sydney Theatre Company.
- Sir Cameron Mackintosh expressed he was 'thrilled' with the appointment, while Jude Kelly CBE, master of St Catherine's College, praised Blanchett as 'one of the most important and influential artistic voices working today.'
- Calling the role an 'electrifying opportunity,' the 57-year-old actor said she looks forward to 'robust creative dialogue' with the next generation of thinkers and creative doers.
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Two-time Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett is to teach contemporary theatre at the University of Oxford.
Cate Blanchett (57) at least temporarily swaps the film set for the auditorium. As reported by the "Hollywood Reporter", the Australian Oscar winner at St Catherine's College of Oxford University takes over the Cameron Macintosh guest professorship for contemporary theatre. She takes up her position in the academic year 2026/27. The professorship was established in 1990 thanks to a donation from British theatre producer Cameron Mackintosh, who i…
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The Oscar winner, tapped by Oxford’s St. Catherine’s College, calls it “an electrifying opportunity for me to be in direct, robust creative dialogue with the next generation of thinkers and creative doers.”
Gollywood Actor Kate Blanchett was asked to see the concert theatre outside St. Catherine's College in Oxford by the Universitate of 2026/27.
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