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.
DEPUTY EDITOR
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 coedited 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
Sozita Goudouna is visiting professor at Goldsmiths where she initiated and teaches the MA on Breath Studies. She is the editor of the Performance Research 2024 issue ‘On Breath’. She taught the MA at the Steinhardt Department of Art at New York University as the inaugural post-doc Andrew W. Mellon Curator fellow at Performa NYC and has held adjunct positions at City University New York (CUNY) teaching renaissance, modern and contemporary art history. She also taught at the Architecture Department of Roger Williams University and the Cultural Management Department at the University of the Peloponnese. She is the author of Beckett’s Breath published by Edinburgh University Press. In 2022 she was the winner of the British Council Culture and Creativity UK Study Award.
Eleni Kolliopoulou is a mixed-media visual/performance artist, educator and researcher particularly interested in the intersection between performance and philosophy. She is currently pursuing post-doctoral research hosted by the Ionian University, Greece (2022–2024) focusing on the embodiment of time in performative praxis informed by Butoh-fu. Her post-doctoral research is funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation (HFRI).
Eero Laine is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. He is co-editor of Lateral, the journal of the Cultural Studies Association (csalateral.org) and participates in the Ends Network (performingends.com) developing collaborative methodologies for performance scholarship.
Rumen Rachev holds an RMA in Media and Performance Studies from Utrecht University, The Netherlands, and has been actively engaged in practice-led research since 2017. He is co-founder of the NEWS Programme (Negative Emissions and Waste Studies Programme) and is Creative Guest, Wairua Awhina (Helping Spirit) and Director of 希望学 (Hope-ology) at the Activities and Research in Environments for Creativity Charitable Trust (AREC). Currently he holds the position of research assistant at the University of Auckland (UoA).
CONTRIBUTORS
Rebecca Collins is an artist researcher working between contemporary performance and sound studies. Her practice, grounded in specific sites, communities or institutional frameworks, investigates the relationships between social, political and cultural phenomena. She is interested in how critical, fictional and performative interventions might indicate potential levers for change. She is a lecturer in Contemporary Art Theory at the University of Edinburgh.
Ranjana Dave is an artist and writer based in New Delhi, India. She is the editor of the award-winning text Improvised Futures: Encountering the body in performance (Tulika Books, 2021). She works across performance, writing, pedagogy and curation. More about her work at www.ranjanadave.com
Eric Villanueva Dela Cruz is a transdisciplinary artist and educator engaging in performance design and theatre making through devised, site-based and sensorial performances that intersect with bioart, sentient performativities, disability and sustainable community development. A licensed physical therapist, he is the founder of TAXI Theater and a member of PETA Theater.
Gillian Dyson is a performance artist and academic. She is researching the uncanny feminine body in relation to the ordinary and every day, particularly experiences of ageing. Her work includes social engaged practice, site and exploration of place. She is Senior Lecturer in Performance at Leeds Beckett University. www.gilliandyson.co.uk
Joanna Ruth Evans is a South African theatre artist and performance scholar based in New York. They are a PhD candidate in performance studies at New York University, where they research the intersections of black improvisational performance practices and environmental relation across Southern Africa and the Southern United States.
Renata Gaspar is an artist and independent researcher. Her work deals with the socio-political construction of place in/through art making, particularly with mobility in relation to language and belonging. She is invited adjunct professor at the Theatre Department at Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espetáculo (ESMAE) in Porto.
Tasha Haines (PhD) is an independent researcher and mixed-media artist. She works in textual hybridity with a particular interest in the auto-theoretical and the fictocritical. She makes long-form inter-genre poems and poems-brut. She is the author of Redemptive Hybridism in Post-Postmodern Writing (2023, Bloomsbury Academic).
Teri Howson-Griffiths is a Senior Lecturer in Drama. Her research, practice and teaching centres on contemporary performance often utilizing participatory, applied, sensory and verbatim methodologies. Her work often has a health and well-being emphasis, and she is currently engaged with work in broader connection to the field of arts, health and well-being.
Bindi Kang is a scholar and dramaturg whose research interweaves with her artistic pursuits in exploring Asian and Asian American narratives within theatre and performance. She is currently a PhD candidate at The Graduate Center, CUNY, specializing in Asian and Asian American narratives within contemporary theatre and performance. She is currently the dramaturg in residence at Yangtze Repertory Theatre.
Birgit Larson is an artist. She interrogates habits through the medium of performance. Her work dissects, reallocates and normalizes behaviour, creating parameters for the maintenance of life. She is a founding member of the Hudson Valley Movement Collective and holds an MFA from TransArt University/Plymouth University.
James Layton is a Lecturer in Performance at the University of the West of Scotland. He has published in areas including time and performance, arts and health, and digital performance. His recent monograph, Bergson and Durational Performance: (Re)Ma(r)king time, is published by Intellect Books/University of Chicago Press.
Steve Luber is Acting Director of the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology at Connecticut College. His research is based in the historicization of media and performance, and he has published work on the Blue Man Group, Radiohole, Reid Farrington, and the post-digital.
Vahri McKenzie is an educator, artist and scholar who develops concepts for participation and collaboration, and evaluates creative practices with methodologies that position artistic contributions as new knowledge. She is Senior Lecturer and Course Coordinator, BA (Arts and Cultural Management), Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University.
Jessica Nakamura is Associate Professor of Theater at University of California, Santa Barbara. Her writings have been published in journals that include Modern Drama and Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism and in the monograph, Transgenerational Remembrance (Northwestern University Press). Her current project explores representations of the domestic across postwar and contemporary Japanese theatres.
Jimena Ortúzar is a performance studies scholar working at the intersection of labour, gender and migration, a research interest that comes from her own immigrant experience of taking on all kinds of mundane work. She is currently a visiting instructor at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
Alan Parker is a choreographer, dramaturg, teacher and researcher based in Makhanda, South Africa, where he is currently employed as a senior lecturer in the Drama Department at the University Currently Known as Rhodes/ Rhodes University. He holds a PhD in Theatre and Performance from the University of Cape Town.
Bhargav Rani is a cultural theorist and performance scholar with a PhD from the City University of New York. He is currently a post-doctoral research fellow at M.S. Merian – R. Tagore International Centre of Advanced Studies: ‘Metamorphoses of the Political’ (ICAS:MP), New Delhi, where he is working on a book manuscript tracing a cultural history of Banaras.
Sandamini Ranwalage is a scholar whose work is situated in the intersections of postcolonial studies and performance studies. Her current projects examine corporeal forms of nostalgia as they illuminate postcolonial realities of twenty-first-century South Asia and diaspora. Sandamini is an Assistant Professor of English at Skidmore College.
Ellen Redling is a lecturer in Drama and Theatre Arts (University of Birmingham, UK). She has written numerous articles on contemporary theatre and coedited a volume on Non-standard Forms of Contemporary Drama and Theatre. She is currently working on a new monograph project: Theatres of Disruption in 21st-Century Britain (forthcoming with Bloomsbury).
Tim Reid is a PhD candidate in performance studies at New York University. He is, additionally, a performer, writer, artist and inconstant collaborator.
Janelle Reinelt, Professor Emerita of Theatre and Performance, University of Warwick, was President of the International Federation for Theatre Research (2004–7). She has published widely on politics and performance, receiving the Distinguished Scholar Award for lifetime achievement from the American Society for Theatre Research (2010).
Mark Sussman is Professor of Theatre and Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture at Concordia University, Montreal. He is also a founder and co-director of Great Small Works, a theatre collective in Brooklyn, New York and the founder and co-host of Café Concret, Montreal.
Anna Tzakou is a performer theatre deviser and practice-based researcher based in Athens, Greece. Her work integrates epistemologies of landscape with contemplative and performance practices. With group Geopoetics, she devises site-specific walking performances in rural and urban landscapes. Anna is a lecturer at the University of Peloponnese. For more please visit: https://annatzakou-geopoetics.com/
Evelyn Wan is Assistant Professor in Media, Arts, and Society at the Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Through the lens of decolonial media studies and performance studies, her research focuses on historical and contemporary emerging technologies.
Maurya Wickstrom is Professor of Theatre in the Theatre and Performance Program at the Graduate Center and in the Performing and Creative Arts Department at the College of Staten Island. She is currently working on a new monograph provisionally called When the Ocean Holds the Stage: Moby Dick and archipelagic worlds.
Brandon Woolf is an interdisciplinary theatre artist and clinical associate professor at New York University, where he directs the Program in Dramatic Literature. Over the past 15 years, he co-founded and co-directed three public performance ensembles – UC Movement for Efficient Privatization (UCMeP), Shakespeare in the Park Berlin, and Culinary Theater. Institutional Theatrics, Brandon’s book on contemporary performance in Berlin, was published by Northwestern UP in 2021. www.brandonwoolfperformance.com
Alia Zapparova is an artist and writer searching for poetics of transformation in the everyday.
Zhen Zhang is currently a lecturer in the School of Liberal Arts at the Renmin University of China. He received his PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Davis. His research covers topics such as critical theory, world literature and contemporary Chinese art.