My intention is to present a framework for utilising autobiographical material as a performer, researcher and Dramatherapist. The framework offered is in response to concerns that performance and the theatrical art form are not central to research in Dramatherapy. It seems the arts profession often relies on the dominance of research approaches using the written word, some "do not yet see the links between artistic enquiry and formal research" (McNiff, 2013, p. 4). It is important that the arts therapists do not lose their identity as artists. The dramatic art form can empower Dramatherapist's practice as artists and subvert the dominance of the written word in research.