GENERAL EDITOR
Richard Gough is a co-founder and the General Editor of Performance Research, Professor of Music and Performance at University of South Wales, Cardiff, UK, and Artistic Director of the Centre for Performance Research (CPR). He has produced and organized numerous conferences, workshops, festivals and tours of theatre and dance companies across the past forty-five years, and he has directed theatre productions, curated events and lectured in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Australasia and throughout Europe. His own artistic-led research explores the interface between food, cookery and performance.
Helena Grehan is the Vice Chancellor’s Professorial Research Fellow at The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University. She writes on performance and ethics, art and politics and questions of spectatorship and responsibility. She has published four books, and two co-edited books, the most recent of which is The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics (with Peter Eckersall). She is currently leading a major Australian Research Council-funded project to digitize, to archival standard, vulnerable cultural collections from Western Australia.
ISSUE EDITORS
After Performance is a research collective founded in Singapore in January 2015. Writing together since then, the group has worked consistently over distance using online platforms. Publishing collaboratively created critical texts, After Performance has also held international workshops in Singapore, London, Melbourne, Hamburg and Manila. After Performance is Felipe Cervera, Alvin Lim, Ella Parry-Davies and Matt Yoxall.
Felipe Cervera works internationally as a theatre and performance scholar and maker. His current work focuses on the politics of performance and outer space and experimental and co-creative methodologies for teaching and research in theatre and performance studies. He is Assistant Professor of Theater and Performance Studies and Director of the Center for Performance Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Felipe is the incoming Deputy Editor of Performance Research.
Alvin Eng Hui Lim is a performance, religion and theatre researcher. He is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Linguistics and Theatre Studies at the National University of Singapore. He holds a PhD in Theatre Studies jointly awarded by the National University of Singapore and King’s College London. He is also Deputy Director and Technology and Online Editor (Mandarin) of the Asian Shakespeare Intercultural Archive (A|S|I|A). http://a-s-i-a-web.org/
Ella Parry-Davies works on feminist and crip approaches to transnational labour migration, focusing on co-creative research with migrant domestic workers. She is a Lecturer in Theatre, Performance and Critical Theory at King’s College London, and co-convenor of the Performance Studies international (PSi) working group on Performance and Critical Social Praxis.
Matt Yoxall is a theatre-maker and development consultant. He has a background focused on projects relating to forced migration, while currently running leadership enhancement programmes across the Asia-Pacific. He is an Honorary Fellow at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University, and is a co-convenor of the PSi working group on Performance and Critical Social Praxis.
AUTHORS
Nana Adusei-Poku is Assistant Professor in History of Art and African American Studies Department, Yale University. She curated Black Melancholia at CCS Bard Galleries, New York 2022. Among her publications are Reshaping the Field: Art of the African diasporas on display (Walther Koenig 2022) and Taking Stakes in the Unknown: Tracing post-Black art (transcript, 2021).
Martin Austin is a PhD student at University of Toronto’s Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies. His research concerns the high incidence of workplace misconduct, wage precarity and other ethical concerns in Euro-American dance. Outside of academia, Martin is a dancer, and dance reviewer for various Canadian magazines.
Laura Bissell is an Athenaeum Research Fellow and Lecturer in Contemporary Performance Practice at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Laura has co-authored/edited three books, and her research interests include: technology, ecology, interdisciplinarity, matrescence, feminist performance; and performance and journeys. She is currently writing a monograph on matrescence and performance.
Kiera Bono is a PhD candidate in Theatre and Performance at the Graduate Center, the City University of New York (CUNY) and is an interdisciplinary artist. Bono is currently writing a dissertation on disabled, diasporic relationalities in performance and has recently taught at The City College of New York.
Chaomei Chen is a PhD candidate in Drama at Trinity College Dublin. Her research interests lie in post-revolutionary (1980s–) Chinese theatre, traditional Chinese theatre (xiqu, esp. liyuanxi), interculturalism, and contemporary Irish theatre. Her PhD project investigates post-revolutionary Chinese theatre with regards to affective studies, cultural politics, interculturalism, and dramaturgy.
Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau is a contemporary artist and researcher working with performance. His blackly humorous work addresses the subjective experience of power in contemporary life. He is currently undertaking a practice-based PhD at Kingston School of Art where he is researching ambivalent performativity and ‘aboutness’ in performance art.
Alhena Katsof is a PhD candidate in the Department of Performance Studies at New York University and part-time Assistant Professor, Departments of Integrated Arts and Visual Studies, Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts– The New School. She is Curatorial Advisor for the Estate of Yusef Lateef and an editorial collective member at Women & Performance: A journal of feminist theory.
Heunjung Lee earned her PhD in Performance Studies from the University of Alberta in 2023. Her research area is the intersections of performance, ageing and disability. Her papers on ageing and performance have been published in multiple peer-reviewed journals, including Contemporary Theatre Review (CTR), Theatre Research in Canada (TRiC) and European Journal of Theatre and Performance (EJTP).
Katherine Nolan is an artist, lecturer and curator. Working primarily in performance and lens-based media, her research investigates gender and embodiment across live and digital contexts. She has exhibited internationally in Europe, America and Asia. Recent solo exhibitions include ‘Fluid Flesh’ (2021) and ‘The Mistress of the Mantle’ (2017) at MART Gallery, Dublin. She is currently Lecturer in Creative Digital Media at the Technological University Dublin.
Terry Ofosu graduated with a Diploma in Theatre Arts (Dance) in 1993, MFA (choreography) in 2009 and a PhD in African Studies in 2019, all at the University of Ghana. He has taught at the university since 2011, and has eleven publications to his credit. Spatial designer
Emily O’Hara’s interdisciplinary practice emerges through extended duration works, particularly in relation to the rhythms and repetitions of life and death. She explores ideas of the feminine, the maternal and the domestic interior, and how the everyday offers a space through which to consider inter-generational and inter-spatial connection.
Bhumi B Patel is a queer, desi, science-fiction movement artist and writer. She is a PhD candidate at The Ohio State University. Bhumi’s research on queer decoloniality and improvisation intersects with her performance-making as a way of tracing the deep connections of past, present and future to build communities of nourishment and care.
Amy Schofield, MFA, is a flamenco dancer, choreographer, educator and researcher who has studied extensively in both Spain and the United States. Currently pursuing a PhD in Dance Studies at The Ohio State University, her research explores flamenco dance in the diaspora.
Oscar T. Serquiña, Jr is Associate Professor in the Department of Speech Communication and Theatre Arts at the University of the Philippines Diliman, where he teaches classes in rhetoric, theatre, and performance studies. He holds a doctoral degree in Theatre Studies from the University of Melbourne. His essays have appeared in TDR: The drama review, Performance Research, Theatre Research International, Humanities Diliman, Kritika Kultura and Philippine Studies.
Heather Sincavage is an artist, curator and educator. Her research centres on the experience of intimate partner violence, its ramifications for victims and the somatics of negotiating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). She currently is an Associate Professor of Art at Wilkes University.
Ilinca Todoruț is Assistant Professor of Theatre at Babeș-Bolyai University, and author of Christoph Schlingensief’s Realist Theater (Routledge 2021).
Christine Xiong is a PhD candidate in English at Stanford University, where her research explores how Pacific Ocean ecologies take form in Asian American literatures.
A. Berkem Yanıkcan is a graduate student in Communication Studies at Kadir Has University and a researcher of the European Research Council (ERC) project, ‘Staging National Abjection: Theatre and politics in Turkey and its diasporas’. His research focuses on queer and transfeminist theatre and activist aesthetics with a focus on Turkey.
Saba Zavarei is an artist, researcher and writer, and the politics of body and space are at the core of her research and practice. Working across the media of text, performance and placemaking, she explores the ways in which bodies and performative interventions contribute to the production of space and the urban condition.