The Veterans Project is an international performance-oral history research initiative that uses performance to foster dialogue among military veterans and the civilian communities in which they live. Since 2013 The Veterans Project has been performed over ten times in the US and UK, with veterans from the US Army, US Navy, US Marine Corps, US Air Force, Royal Army, and Royal Air Force. The veterans have served in conflicts ranging from Vietnam to Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Falkland Islands.  

​Concept by Erika Hughes and Boyd Branch 
Directed by Erika Hughes 
Design & media by Boyd Branch 

For more on The Veterans Project please see "Embodied Historiography: Rupture as the Performance of History," Performance Research (2014) by Boyd Branch and Erika Hughes, and "The Veterans Project: Theatre and/as Historiography," Theatre Topics (2017) by Erika Hughes.  

This performance series has also been profiled in Digital Media, Projection Design, and Technology for the Theatre (Routledge, 2018) by Alex Oliszewski, Daniel Fine, and Daniel Roth.

Image from The Veterans Project performance, November 2015, Tempe AZ: 

Image from technical rehearsal, November 2018, Portsmouth UK:

Interview with Solent TV, Erika Hughes and Peter Lee, RAF veteran, November 2018:

News coverage from Solent TV of November 2018 Veterans Project performance in Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK:

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