{"id":642205,"date":"2026-06-16T19:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T19:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/642205\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T19:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T19:55:09","slug":"cate-blanchett-promises-creative-rumpus-in-new-role-oxford-professor-cate-blanchett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/642205\/","title":{"rendered":"Cate Blanchett promises \u2018creative rumpus\u2019 in new role: Oxford professor | Cate Blanchett"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Oscar-winning actor Cate Blanchett has promised to cause a \u201ccreative rumpus\u201d in her latest role, as visiting professor at the University of Oxford<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Australian star is the latest in a long line of celebrated thespians to be appointed as the Cameron Mackintosh visiting professor of contemporary theatre at St Catherine\u2019s College, Oxford.<\/p>\n

The role, which covers the 2026-27 academic year, will require Blanchett to take part in a programme of conversations and lectures, engaging with students as well as the wider university community.<\/p>\n

She follows in the footsteps of Stephen Sondheim, Ian McKellen, Arthur Miller, Meera Syal, Tom Stoppard, Adjoa Andoh, Stephen Fry, Diana Rigg, Trevor Nunn and Deborah Warner, among others who have held the role, which was established in 1990 through a gift from the theatre producer Cameron Mackintosh.<\/p>\n

Blanchett described the appointment as an electrifying opportunity. \u201cArt breaks down the borders and boundaries of our imagination; it poses questions, and playing with and dissecting it expands and challenges our present reality,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy years of creative practice have granted me the opportunity of sharpening feelings into ideas and offered pathways to insight. The visiting professorship is an electrifying opportunity for me to be in direct, robust creative dialogue with the next generation of thinkers and creative doers. I look forward to beginning this creative rumpus.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jude Kelly, the master of St Catherine\u2019s College and herself one of the country\u2019s most celebrated theatre directors and producers, said: \u201cCate Blanchett is one of the most important and influential artistic voices working today, not only through the extraordinary breadth of her work across theatre and screen, but through her longstanding commitment to cultural dialogue, collaboration and public engagement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Cameron Mackintosh visiting professorship exists to bring world-leading practitioners into meaningful conversation with students, academics and audiences, and Cate\u2019s appointment represents a hugely exciting next chapter in that story.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mackintosh added: \u201cI am really thrilled that Cate Blanchett has agreed to be our next visiting professor. I know that her incredible career, both as an actor and producer across stage, screen and television, will be a major inspiration to Oxford\u2019s students.\u201d<\/p>\n

Blanchett has appeared in dozens of critically acclaimed films, including T\u00e1r, Carol, Blue Jasmine, Elizabeth and Lord of the Rings. She has starred in theatrical productions on Broadway and in the West End and was co-artistic director at the acclaimed Sydney Theatre<\/a> Company between 2008 and 2013.<\/p>\n

She has also guest edited BBC Radio 4\u2019s Today programme, declared war on leaf blowers<\/a> and recently found herself at the centre of a planning row over her luxury Cornish ecohome<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Oscar-winning actor Cate Blanchett has promised to cause a \u201ccreative rumpus\u201d in her latest role, as visiting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-642205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}