Alecks is a graduate of MA Theatre Arts from the University of the Philippines. She is currently studying Acting for Film, TV, and Theatre at Toronto Film School in Canada. Alecks aims to utilize the power of performance to further empower her environmental advocacy.

Electa Behrens (USA/Norway): works as the Program Responsible for the BA in Acting at the Norwegian Theatre Academy. She is a performer, mother, theorist, teacher. Phd: Kent University, MA: Exeter University, BA: Vassar College (theatre&anthropology). Her work explores voice as a way to be in, build and deconstruct worlds. She has written on voice and: touch, darkness, composition, decomposition, presence, action, intersectionality, agency, ethics and space. She has worked with, among others Odin Teatret (DK), Richard Schechner (USA), Marina Abramovic (Serbia), Dah Theatre (Serbia) and the Centre for Performance Research (Wales).

Rustom Bharucha is a writer, cultural critic and dramaturg based in Kolkata, India. He is the author of several books including Theatre and the World, The Politics of Cultural Practice, Terror and Performance, The Question of Faith, In the Name of the Secular, Another Asia: Rabindranath Tagore and Okakura Tenshin, Rajasthan: An Oral History, a co-edited volume with Paula Richman on Performing the Ramayana Tradition, and, more recently, The Second Wave: Reflections on the Pandemic through Photography, Performance and Public Culture. His 9-episode video-lecture on Theatre and Coronavirus, produced by Interweaving Performance Cultures, Berlin, can be accessed on:

https://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/en/v/interweaving-performance-cultures/online-projects/Theater-and-the-Coronavirus/index.html

Dr. Kevin Brown is an Associate Professor of Digital Media and Performance Studies and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Theatre at the University of Missouri in Columbia (USA). He has been a producer, director, actor, writer, and designer of theatre for over thirty years. His research explores the intersections of digital media and performance, including topics such as robotics, artificial intelligence, video games, virtuality, telematics, and mediatization, while exploring the performance of identity, including the construction of gender, ethnicity, class, and community. Brown often directs shows that integrate media into live theatrical performances.

Frank Camilleri is Professor of Theatre Studies and Artistic Director of Icarus Performance Project. His various publications on performer training, theatre as a laboratory, and practice as research reflect the theatre work he has been developing since 1989. He is the author of Performer Training Reconfigured: Post-Psychophysical Perspectives for the Twenty-first Century (Methuen, 2019) and Performer Training for Actors and Athletes (Methuen, 2023).

Felipe Cervera (Mexico, 1984) is an Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Actor by training, director by vocation, and performance studies scholar by conviction, his primary research interests are collaborative/coalitional pedagogies and research methodologies, as well as the interplays of performance, technology, and politics. He is currently working on his first monograph, tentatively titled Endless Planets: Performance and the Politics of Outer Space, and on an edited collection titled Performance Pedagogy: Objects, Transfers, Formations. Felipe is Co-editor of Global Performance Studies, and Associate Editor of Performance Research. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA) and on the Board of Directors of Performance Studies international (PSi). Felipe holds honorary and visiting appointments at the University of Toronto and at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Singapore. Publications and artistic work can be found at: www.felipecervera.me

Diana Damian Martin is a researcher, artist and educator. Her work explores borders, migrancy and cultural, aesthetic and linguistic politics, specifically drawing on postsocialist, decolonial and anti-colonial practices in ‘peripheries’ of Europe, with a particular interest in ‘Eastern Europe’. She is a Senior Lecturer in Performance Arts at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, where she leads the Experimental Arts and Performance course, Associate Director of Migrants in Culture and co-hosts collectives Department of Feminist Conversations and Critical Interruptions.

Steve Dixon is President of LASALLE, University of the Arts Singapore. He is a director and performer working in theatre, film, VR and telematics. His research focuses on the use of new media in theatre and dance, and he is co-founder and Advisory Editor of International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media (Routledge). Steve is author of an 800-page history of Digital Performance (2007 MIT Press) and his latest book Cybernetic-Existentialism: Freedom, Systems and Being-for-others in Contemporary Arts and Performance (2020 Routledge) fuses ideas from philosophy and system sciences to critique 50 contemporary artists.

Kyoko Iwaki is a tenure-track Lecturer at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. After her career as a theatre journalist, she became a scholar specializing in Asian (specifically Japanese) contemporary theatre and performance who conducts research at the intersection of post-visual dramaturgies, Japanese philosophies, and theatres of catastrophes. Kyoko’s recent publications include: ‘The Politics of the Senses: Takayama Akira’s Atomized Theatre after Fukushima’ in Fukushima and the Arts: Negotiating Nuclear Disaster (Routledge, 2016), and ‘On (Not) Being Useful: The Art of Drifting in Asian Contemporary Theatre’ Studies in Theatre and Performance (2021). She was appointed the co-programmer of Theater der Welt 2023. She is the Associate Editor of Performance Research journal.

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 holds a PhD in Performance Studies from University of Roehampton (UK) and collaborates with the Artistic Creation, Cultural Practices and Policies group at IS-UP (Instituto de Sociologia da Universidade do Porto, PT). She is adjunct professor at the Theatre Department at ESMAE (Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espetáculo, Porto, PT).

More info at: www.renatagaspar.com

Dr. Sozita Goudouna is adjunct professor, curator and the author of “Beckett’s Breath: Anti-theatricality and the Visual Arts” published by Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernism. She initiated and teaches the MA on Breath Studies: Breath in the Visual and Performing Arts at Goldsmiths University of London. She taught art history at City University of New York and performance studies at New York University as the inaugural Andrew W. Mellon post-doctoral fellow at Performa Biennial and Institute. In 2022 she received the British Council Award for Culture and Creativity. She holds a PhD from the University of London on respiration and the interfaces between the performing and visual arts focusing on Beckett that is regarded as the first monographic survey on Beckett’s Breath. She holds a BA in Philosophy and Theatre and and an MA in Directing (Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, RADA & Kings College London (1996-2000). Formerly, associate editor at STP Studies in Theatre and Performance (2008-2011), her research has been published in numerous academic journals. Her co-authored book with fifteen scholars "Mourning the Ends: Collaborative Writing" (Punctum) is forthcoming in 2023.

More info at: https://cuny.academia.edu/DrSozitaGoudouna

Nilüfer Ovalıoğlu Gros is a theatre and performance artist from İstanbul, based in Paris. After her MFA at SUNY Stony Brook, she trained in physical theatre at London International School of Performing Arts and completed her PhD degree on 'femininity and the grotesque' at Brunel University, London in 2010. She taught in New York, London and İstanbul. Between 2013-2017 she lived in Mardin, situated in the Syrian frontier of Turkey, where she created theatre based on especially women’s witness accounts. Currently she pursues a practice-based doctorate at Conservatory of dramatic arts (CNSAD) on the viscerality of gendered resistance in Mesopotamia.

More info at: https://vimeo.com/nenuphe

Eero Laine is the Department Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. He is one of the co-editors of Lateral, the journal of the Cultural Studies Association. https://eerolaine.org

Sarah Lucie is a researcher, lecturer, and dramaturg. Sarah earned her Ph.D. in Theater and Performance from the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research approaches contemporary performance through new materialism, ecocritical theory, and posthumanism. Sarah has contributed articles to Performance Research, Theatre Journal, Theatre Topics, PAJ, and Etcetera, as well as The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics (2019) and Machine Made Silence: The Art of Kris Verdonck (2020). Sarah is media editor of Performance Studies: An Introduction, 4th Edition, and assistant editor of TDR: The Drama Review. She currently teaches in the theatre departments at NYU and Marymount Manhattan College.

Juliana Moraes is an Assistant Professor of Dance at Campinas State University (UNICAMP). An artist based in São Paulo and Campinas, her research engages with choreography and corporeality in theory and practice. Juliana holds a Ph.D. in Arts from UNICAMP and an MA in Dance Studies from Trinity Laban Conservatoire for Music and Dance. She received prizes such as Sao Paulo State Art Critics Award, Vitae Foundation Scholarship, and UNESCO Aschberg Bursary for Artists. She is the director of the Laboratory for Experimental Practices in Choreography at UNICAMP's Corporeal Arts Department.

More info at: www.julianamoraes.art.br and http://www.internationaloffice.unicamp.br/pagina-inicial-en/ https://www.iar.unicamp.br/o-instituto/

Evan Moritz is a PhD student at the University of Toronto’s Center for Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies. He is interested in the outer limits of science fiction and fact, and his research explores Indigenous futurisms and settler colonial planetary exploration. His project Arctic Cosmologies: Performing Terra Nullius and Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit, looks at the key role performance plays as a procedure and apparatus for understanding local biomes, planetary effects, and extraterrestrial exploration.

More info at: www.evanmoritz.com

Theron Schmidt is Assistant Professor at Utrecht University, Netherlands, and works internationally as an artist, teacher, and writer. He is a founding co-convener of the international Performance Philosophy network and co-editor of the journal Performance Philosophy. He is also an editor of Global Performance Studies, and Associate Editor of Performance Research. He is committed to modes of research, learning, and making that are collaborative and experiential, alive in the thick of things and responsive to the complex and contested entanglements of diverse bodies, politics, histories, and alliances.

More info at: https://www.uu.nl/staff/TUSchmidt

Dr Leah Sidi is a Lecturer in Health Humanities as University College London (UCL), where her research focuses on theatre, feminism and mental health. She is the author of Sarah Kane's Dramaturgy of Psychic Life (Methuen Drama, 2023) and co-convenor of the Theatre and Performance Studies Research Association (TAPRA) Directing and Dramaturgy working group. Her research has been published in journals such as Performance Research, Theatre Topics, Medical Humanities.

More info at: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/european-languages-culture/people/leah-sidi

Kristof van Baarle is a researcher and dramaturg. Currently he is post-doctoral researcher at the University of Antwerp (B). As a dramaturg, Kristof is a longtime collaborator of Kris Verdonck/ A Two Dogs Company and Michiel Vandevelde. He has also worked with Heike Langsdorf, Thomas Ryckewaert, Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe and Alexander Vantournhout. Kristof has published about his research and dramaturgical works in various academic and other journals and book chapters, such as Performance Research, Arts, Etcetera and Documenta. Since 2021, he is Associate Editor for Performance Research.

Sankar Venkateswaran is a theatre director from Kerala, India. His works include “Sahyande Makan: The Elephant Project”, Henrik Ibsen’s “When We Dead Awaken”, Shogo Ohta’s “Water Station”, “Criminal Tribes Act”, “INDIKA” for Munich Volkstheater, “My Name is Tamizh” and “IM TOD—In My Time of Dying” for Theaterhaus Jena. He has curated programs for festivals and cultural institutions such as Theaterfestival Basel and International Theatre Festival of Kerala. He lives and works from Sahyande Theatre, a theatre-dwelling he built in the mountain valley of Attappadi, Kerala, where he pursues cultural projects such as “Tribal Ibsen Project” for which he received the Ibsen Scholarship by Teater Ibsen in 2013, and “Digital Encyclopedia of Indigenous Voices”.