Deon Custard completed BAs in English and Theatre (Directing) at Bates College in Lewiston, ME before beginning at Northwestern in the fall of 2021. Current research interests are focused on Shakespeare’s plays (as literature and as malleable performance texts), the carnivalesque and other comic theories, the racialized body in performance, and how radical joy can

Jooyoung Cho (she/they) is a theatre scholar, dramaturg, media and theatre artist, and educator. She received her BA in English literature with a Secondary School Teacher’s Certificate in English and a minor in Media Interaction Design at Ewha Womans University. Her MA in English literature, also at Ewha, holds a concentration in modern British and

Will Bixby holds a BFA in Theatre and Dance from Missouri State University and an MA in English from George Washington University. Will is a puppetry practitioner and scholar whose current research interests focus on puppet performance, materialism, affect studies, and gender. Will is also a trained actor and has performed and directed for a

Alex Baines received a BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Oxford and an MA in Text and Performance from Birkbeck, University of London and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. His research examines the community function of reconstructed, repurposed, and historically resonant aesthetic and performance spaces, particularly in contexts of Britain