Professor Nirav Christophe is an internationally acclaimed writing teacher, and a playwright for theatre and radio. He wrote ten radio plays, that were broadcast in twelve counties. In his artistic writing practice, he is specialised in the direct collaboration with other (i.e. non-artistic) disciplines, media and domains.
In 1992, he founded the first four-year higher education course in writing at HKU: Writing for Performance. He was the artistic leader of this course for nine years.
From 2001 to 2005, he was a professor of Language & Writing. He has been a professor at HKU since 2006, first with the Theatre Creative Processes professorship (2006-2014), then for Performative Making Processses (2014-2022) en tot slot bij het lectoraat Expanding Artistic Practices (2022-2026).
Nirav Christophe is specialised in practice-based research and creative writing processes, mainly focused on transdisciplinary processes, in which artists work together with non-artistic domains such as healthcare
Among his publications are the following titles:
- Het naakte schrijven; over de mythen van het schrijverschap (2007) (Dutch publication)
- Liedjes van verlangen; theaterteksten & hoorspelen (2010)
- Ten Thousand idiots; Poetics, writing process and pedagogy of writing for performance based on Bakhtin’s ‘Multivocality' (2018)
- Een leeg vel; Laatste lessen over schrijven en schrijfpedagogie (2026) (Dutch publication)