Chloë Jackson (she/they) earned her B.A. in Theatre and Performance and English from Spelman College (May 2021). Her academic work surrounds questions of how Black life is experienced, documented, and performed, using 20th-century Black theatrical and literary works as frames of analysis. Particularly, they maintain an investment in Black women, queer folk, and the American
Alex Knapp is a PhD student in Northwestern University’s Interdisciplinary PhD in Theatre and Drama. Alex’s research interests focus on contemporary performance, materialism(s)/material culture, and aesthetic theory with respect to ecology, affect studies, human-nonhuman relations, and political history, theory, and economy. His essay “Breathing Bricks: Nut Brother’s Dust Project and the Politics of Particulate Matter” won the
Claudia is a scholar-artist from Co.Clare in Ireland. Her doctoral research examines how ‘virtual women’ like female-gendered robots, avatars and Barbie dolls perform gendered and racialized scripts of embodiment and develop meaningful human-nonhuman relations. She has presented her work at venues such as the Society of Cinema and Media Studies, the American Society for Theatre
Gillian Hemme received her BA in Theatre from Grinnell College and her MA in Theatre and Performative Practices from University College Cork. Her work uses embodied practices and autoethnography to investigate transgenerational carceral trauma. Gillian’s recent research has focused on Catholic Church-run carceral institutions, including Ireland’s Mother and Baby Homes. She has served as the director
Heather Grimm holds a BA in Theatre and Economics from Denison University and an MA in Theatre and Performance from Queen Mary University of London. Her research interests include the history of popular entertainment, comedy studies, ethnographic methods, historiography, and audience studies. Heather’s dissertation is an ethnographic study of bluegrass music in the Midwest that
Brandon Greenhouse (he/him) is from Louisiana by way of Texas. He received his BFA in Musical Theatre from College of Santa Fe in New Mexico and an MFA in Acting from Northern Illinois University. His research focuses on the lineages of Black performativity. He explores 19th century orators and ministerial figures to excavate lexicons of
Phoenix Gonzalez earned her B.A. in Religion from Princeton University, with Certificates (minors) in Theater and Medieval Studies. After several years in New York City as a tech startup product manager by day, actor by night, and all around frequent Met Cloisters museum patron, she attended Yale Divinity School and the Institute of Sacred Music to study
An arts writer, curator, and photographer from New Delhi, India, Raunak’s writing and research is situated in the overlap between Indian expressionist performance(-filmography) and pop-culture(s) with reference to critical studies of communalism, caste, queerness, and race. They hold a Bachelor’s degree in English Literature from St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, and an M.Phil in
Suzi Elnaggar is an Egyptian-American performance scholar, freelance dramaturg, and theatre-maker. She was a 2021 Kennedy Center Dramaturgy Intensive Fellow and works as both a developmental and production dramaturg. She holds an M. A. in Theatre Studies from Baylor University, where she researched the work of Heather Raffo through the lens of trauma studies. She
Ana Díaz Barriga is a puppetry practitioner and scholar interested in the application of cognitive science approaches and methods to the study of puppetry and spectatorship. She is the recipient of a Cognitive Science Advanced Research Fellowship and a Mellon Cluster Fellowship in Science Studies. Her current research investigates the sophisticated ways puppeteers guide viewers’
