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.
ISSUE EDITORS
Helena Grehan is Professor of Creative Arts at Murdoch University in Australia. 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. She is Deputy Editor of Performance Research.
Miriam Haughton is Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies at the University of Galway, President of the Irish Society for Theatre Research (ISTR), and Principal Investigator for the Irish Research Council (IRC) Laureate project ‘The Price of Performance’.
CONTRIBUTORS
Bill Aitchison is a British performance artist who has presented his shows in galleries, theatres and festivals around the world. He holds a practice-based PhD from Goldsmiths, University of London, is curator of Last Minute Live Art and Associate Professor in Theatre and Performance at United International College (UIC) Zhuhai, China.
Georgia Grace Bowers is a creative ageing specialist whose research examines how applied theatre can challenge ageism and reduce ageist induced feelings of shame by generating shame resilience. She is Programme Leader and Lecturer in Applied and Contemporary Theatre at the Guildford School of Acting, University of Surrey.
Kevin Brown, Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre at the University of Missouri (USA), has been a working theatre artist for more than thirty years. His research explores the intersections of digital media and performance, and explores performances of identity, including the construction of gender, ethnicity, class and community.
Begoña Echeverria is a Professor at the University of California, Riverside, School of Education. She is the playwright of Picasso Presents Gernika and author of The Hammer of Witches (2015) and ‘Witches’ and Wily Women: Saving Noka through Basque folklore and song (2021). She is also a singer-songwriter with the Basque-American musical trio NOKA.
Floyd P. Favel, Cree name Day Traveller, is a theatre theorist, director, ceremonialist, teacher, museum curator, tribal historian and essayist. He studied theatre in Denmark at the Tukak Teatret, a school for Inuit and Sámi People and in Italy with Jerzy Grotowski.
Dimitra Gkitsa is an arts professional and interdisciplinary scholar working in the intersection of memory studies, affect theories, contemporary art and curatorial practices, and the post-socialist visual cultures. She is currently a Lecturer in Curating and Cultural Leadership at Winchester School of Art, the University of Southampton.
Milija Gluhovic is Reader in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Warwick. His books include A Theory for Theatre Studies: Memory (Bloomsbury, 2020) and The Oxford Handbook of Politics and Performance (OUP, 2021). Currently he leads a collaborative project, ‘Performance and Politics on the New Silk Roads’.
Shonagh Hill is a Research Fellow (Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)) at Queen’s University Belfast working on ‘Generations and Feminist Temporalities in Contemporary Northern Irish Performance’. Shonagh previously held a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship. Her monograph, Women and Embodied Mythmaking in Irish Theatre (Cambridge UP, 2019), provides an alternative genealogy of modern Irish theatre.
Kristen Holfeuer is a PhD candidate in New York University (NYU) Tisch‘s Performance Studies. Her research considers how disability and Indigenous performances reconfigure relationships to space and labour. Holfeuer’s theatrical practice includes dynamic physical vocabularies, political and social satire, and is concerned with themes of friendship, devotion and ecological justice.
Nicola Hyland is a Senior Lecturer in the Theatre Programme of Te Herenga Waka–Victoria University of Wellington. Of Te Atihaunui-a-Pāpārangi and Ngāti Hauiti descent, Nicola’s research explores representations of indigeneity in contemporary performance, intersections of gender and race in popular culture, and devised theatre practices.
Melanie Kloetzel (MFA, PhD) is a settler performance maker, scholar and educator based in northern Turtle Island/Canada. Director of the dance company kloetzel&co. and co-director of the climate art collective TRAction, Kloetzel develops events, workshops and encounters in theatre spaces, alternative venues and online environments. Kloetzel is Professor of Dance at the University of Calgary.
Kfir Lapid-Mashall is a writer, dramaturg and theatre maker, whose research-led practice urges alternative mechanisms of truth-seeking and justice-doing. He is a doctoral researcher at the University of Glasgow, pursuing a cross-disciplinary project establishing the dramaturgy of Judicial Theatre. Kfir currently serves as Reviews Editor for Performance Research.
Jacob Mallinson Bird is a Lecturer in Music at both The Queen's and Somerville Colleges, Oxford. He has also held Lectureships at the Faculty of Music, Cambridge. His research centres on notions of voice, specifically in queer settings.
Felipe Henrique Monteiro Oliveira is the founder and director of the International Center of Artistic and Academic Research on Antonin Artaud. He has obtained a PhD in Performing Arts from the Federal University of Bahia (Brazil) and completed his postdoctoral studies at the Postgraduate Program in Performing Arts of the University of São Paulo, Brazil.
Pauline Mornet is an artist-scholar, and a PhD candidate in Theatre and Performance Studies at Stanford University. She holds a Master of Arts in Performance Studies from New York University and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Humanities from the Paris Institut of Political Science (Sciences Po Paris).
Andrea Pagnes (he/him) works with Verena Stenke as VestAndPage in performance art, live art and performance-based filmmaking. They are lecturers at ArtEZ University of the Arts (NL) and Unidee Academy (IT), and are the founders and curators of the Venice International Performance Art Week. www.vest-and-page.de
Hannah Ray is a doctoral candidate in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) on unceded Bedegal land. Her research explores the politics of non-cathartic affective experiences in contemporary theatre and performance, with an interest in the critical and aesthetic theory of Theodor Adorno.
Nathalie Rozanes is an actress, writer and director. Her works are articulated around the idea of the body as a historical document, displacement and the architecture of relationships. She gained an MFA in writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2023. Currently, she is conducting a PhD research project within the Studies in the Arts programme at the University of Bern and co-writing a feature film set at the Dead Sea with Louise Dubois. As an actress she has worked in theatre and film for various directors across Europe and trained at Institut National Supérieur des Arts du Spectacle (INSAS), Brussels.
Sabina Sweta Sen-Podstawska is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Culture Studies, University of Silesia in Poland. Her current research interests embrace sensory-somatic awareness, storytelling, spiritual place-based experience and practices in Odissi dance and Indigenous dance and theatre in Canada. As a performer and researcher she works crisscrossing disciplines and mediums.
Annika C. Speer is a Professor of Teaching at the University of California (UC) Riverside’s Department of Theatre, Film, and Digital Production. She is the director and co-producer of Picasso Presents Gernika. Her research has been published in academic journals in theatre, communication, gender studies, and pedagogy as well as literary journals.
Jasmine Tutum is a Jamaican-Gabonese multidisciplinary performance artist and curator based in Freiburg, Germany. Her work charts the fugitive spaces that articulate the voices and visions of the black female body. Her spoken word album The Other Others will be released this autumn.
Yingjun Wei is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Drama at Trinity College Dublin. Her research focuses on feminist theatre and performative activism in contemporary China and transnationally. Her work has appeared in the European Journal of Theatre and Performance, and she is contributing to an anthology on global feminist performance while developing a mini-monograph for the ‘Women Theatre Makers’ Series (Cambridge University Press).