Claudia Kinahan is a scholar-artist from Co.Clare, Ireland with research interests in nonhuman and object performance, new materialisms and posthumanism, feminist technoscience, gender, race, and film and media studies. Her work examines how objects and technologies, like robots and digital avatars, are gendered and racialized through performance. Claudia holds a First Class Hons. BA with a Gold Medal in Drama and Theatre Studies from Trinity College, Dublin. 

Claudia also maintains an artistic practice and as an award-winning theatre maker has directed, written, and performed for numerous stages including the Abbey Theatre, Smock Alley Theatre, RTÉ Television, Remy Bumppo Theatre Company, and the American Music Theatre Project. She is passionate about practice-based research and often bridges her scholarly and artistic pursuits through her creative work. You can find out more about her work at claudiakinahantheatre.com.