TAPS Starter Pack
Researchers and practitioners of theatre and performance studies; scholars of performance philosophy and practice. A starter pack inviting edits and additions—let me know if you’d like to be included or if there's someone I've missed!
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@amandarosevphd.bsky.social
@roundaboutnyc.bsky.social
Celebrating the power of theatre through classics, new works, and education.
@americantheatre.org
The national magazine for the American professional not-for-profit theatre. Subscribe at http://americantheatre.org/join
@anamariatd.bsky.social
Profe universitaria, feminista, terca y despistada. Antropóloga, danza, decolonialidad, historia del arte, cuerpo,identidad,memoria,teoría crítica. https://antioquia.academia.edu/AnamariaTamayoDuque https://librosoa.unam.mx/handle/123456789/3852
@edwarmulfo.bsky.social
PhD | Instructor of Communication, Performance, and Sexuality Studies | Queer Latinx Performances of Loss from the El Paso-Ciudad Juárez Borderland | Connoisseur of Guilty Pleasures They/Them
@lisabiggs.bsky.social
Author of The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration & the Art of Transformation (OSU Press 2022); Theatre maker, performance studies scholar; Associate Professor, Africana Studies/Rites and Reason Theatre @ Brown University
@purplezebrav.bsky.social
Queer/crip scholar of freaks and monsters in pop culture and politics, here to talk about history, literary theory, and cats. They/them or xe/xen/xens pronouns.
@jmrezes.bsky.social
Ph.Ding: HIV/AIDS Media, Taste, Humor 🍬 ABD | Nonbinary Acting Methods 🎭 “Camp” counselor🏕 | they✨
@danisnyder-young.bsky.social
Applied performance, spectatorship, and obsessive knitting.
@joellerad.bsky.social
Theatre maker, educator, scholar, traveler who uses science to understand the world.
@bee-scott.bsky.social
PhD candidate in queer science fiction theatre across the US/UK @uniofyork.bsky.social www.bee-scott.com
@bdholms.bsky.social
CUNY prof, writer, dog spoiler. Appalachian roots. she/her. bethanyholmstrom.com
@ryegent.bsky.social
Performing arts librarian, writer of performance/trans/new media studies things, in the throes of NRE with NYC. He/him.
@meindertpeters.bsky.social
Leverhulme EC Fellow at @UniofOxford & @NewCollegeOx | Book: Habituation in German Modernism: https://shorturl.at/LYKFy | Co-Curator: Kafka: Making of an Icon (Oxford/New York) | Editor: Bodies & Abilities (Brill) | www.meindertpeters.com
@laurenginsberg.bsky.social
she/her | associate professor of classical studies: Roman literature, culture, theater, civil war, & all things Nero | pedagogy geek | passionate about equity in graduate education | lover of travel and food | never speak for my employer
@aliciaandrz.bsky.social
assistant prof. of Shakespeare | book: “queer pregnancy in Shakespeare’s plays” | proud CUNY alum | bylines: Chronicle, Boston Globe, LA Review of Books, Electric Lit, Catapult, American Theatre, LitHub, Huffington Post, etc aliciaandrzejewskiphd.com
@rmclaycomb.bsky.social
English, Theatre, trying to make things better from the inside out. *In the Lurch: Verbatim Theater and the Crisis of Democratic Deliberation* (UMichiganP 2023) Sr. Assoc. Dean, Prof. @ Colorado State University College of Liberal Arts.
@kallewesterling.bsky.social
Day-time Research Application Manager at The Alan Turing Institute for digital arts and humanities research. Night-time #drag historian with a PhD in #performance. Formerly #DigitalHumanities Research Institute, Living with Machines, and HASTAC
@dramamama730.bsky.social
Theatre lover and educator; Writer and editor; Lover of dogs MFA Directing, Univ. of Memphis MA Writing, Univ. of North AL Adjunct professor of theatre at University of North Alabama www.amandaperry.online
@c0nstantine.bsky.social
PhD candidate at Columbia in Tibetan Buddhism | Studying tantric ritual dance (cham) | MA in Performance Studies from NYU | Big fan of Céline Dion | Dog dad | Fountain pen enthusiast | He/him | 🇬🇷🏳️🌈🇺🇸
@carladellagatta.bsky.social
Dramaturg | Arts Advocate | Writer | Theatre Historian 💃🏻 Associate Professor | Author: Latinx Shakespeares Co-Editor: Shakespeare & Latinidad https://www.latinxshakespeares.org/ https://www.carladellagatta.com/
@theatrenerd.bsky.social
Director, teacher, scholar, dramaturg, doctor of theatre and performance…I will take time to craft this after I finish directing the next show or writing the next piece. Maybe.
@roseplayhouse.bsky.social
Bankside's first theatre Built by Philip Henslowe 1587, rediscovered 1989 Original home of plays by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Kyd & many others Scheduled Monument & Registered Charity www.roseplayhouse.org.uk Rose Theatre Trust 56 Park St, London SE1 9AR
@seanbartley.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Theatre History @NSULA. Experiential, Digital, and Immersive Performance, Sports as Performance. Director. Dramaturg. Masshole.
@weingust.bsky.social
Shakespeare and theatre scholar; proud papa of USC entrepreneur and Hostelpass.co CEO; old actor/musician; former Ensemble member at Glide SF; ally; happy Californian.
@heidilulie.bsky.social
Professor of English literature @goetheuni.bsky.social *former @humboldt-foundation.de Postdoc @QMULSLLF *Victorianist* 21st c 🎭 & livecasting * co-editor of Studies in Travel Writing*🌈 https://www.uni-frankfurt.de/136371678/Heidi_Liedk
@miserchristmas.bsky.social
Doctor of Theatre, Metamodernism and Millennials / Very proud dad. (he/him) Metamodern Theatre 📖 out now https://linktr.ee/miserchristmas Gaming Democracy Project: @gamingdemocracy.bsky.social
@drjdunnehowrie.bsky.social
Theatre academic. Currently writing two books on free speech culture wars and digital performativity of extreme and far-right sub-cultures. Gaming Democracy Project @gamingdemocracy.bsky.social
@kfirlapid.bsky.social
Queer 🏳️🌈 Humanist 👣 artist-scholar PhD researcher, University of Glasgow Reviews Editor, Performance Research #JudicialTheatre For more: bio.site/KfirLapid
@lowellgasoi.bsky.social
Communication and media studies prof at Carleton and University of Ottawa. Theatre maker and cultural policy person. Performance studies and sci-fi geek.
@thetheatredr.bsky.social
Triple threat: artist, teacher, scholar. Associate Professor of Theatre History. Writes books about musicals, teaches theatrical troublemakers, directs stuff. All views are my own.
@thomasmrobson.bsky.social
Disney scholar. Phillies fan. Star Wars nerd. Gaygaygay. Co-author: Disney Parks & The Construction of American Identity: Tourism, Performance, Anxiety (Lexington Books, 2024) Opinions are obviously my own and not those of my employer.
@sarahbusch.bsky.social
PhD student @UniFreiburg / lecturer @UniCologne / queer-feminist literature 📚contemporary theatre and audience studies🎭/ (she/they) 🏳️🌈 www.tinyurl.com/SBusch
@cmohark.bsky.social
Theatre Scholar and Practioner. Fiber artist. Scifi and romance reader
@dougeacho.bsky.social
performance historian in toronto. writing a book about automating theatre (surrealism, cybernetics, backstage tech, ai) in which i discover to much astonishment that it was capital all along. douglaseacho.com
@catherinequirk.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Drama. Coffee lover, writer, actor, (digital) theatre historian, Victorianist. Language learner. Likes &c my own. she/her. 🌈
@drosvally.bsky.social
Shakespearean, fight director, actor, dramaturge. Assistant professor of theatre University at Buffalo.
@laurack.bsky.social
dramaturg, awards judge, theatre critic/editor, director, occasional producer 🎭 teacher/tutor/lecturer/coach with a PhD👩🏻🎓 angry about white supremacist heteropatriarchal capitalism✊🏻 neurodivergent London-based immigrant🌎 own views
@bardythoughts.bsky.social
SFF Editor for @SolarisBooks.bsky.social by day, contemporary Shakespeare theatre scholar by night. Sometimes theatre critic, dramaturg.
@charlieholland.bsky.social
19th century Circus and Music Hall history (esp. acro, aerial & juggling) & Contemporary Circus. Co-organiser of European Circus History Conference (circusconference.org), British Music Hall Society Conference.
@keenanshionalyn.bsky.social
PhD Candidate, University of Birmingham - Theatre History, Queer Theatre, Modernism, and Practice-Based Research - East Central European Area Studies - Theatre/Humanities Education (Andragogy/Pedagogy)
@briceezell.bsky.social
Writer, critic (@PopMatters), teacher. ATL. PhD in English, University of Texas. Modern drama, theatre, and philosophy. Writing a book on Tom Stoppard. https://boxd.it/1rEO5
@alexthemeh.bsky.social
(He/Him) Theatre/digital media scholar with a love of world building and a fear of all things digital.
@emmcgirr.bsky.social
Eighteenth-century & theatre historian; cat & child wrangler; immigrant.
@emdillon.bsky.social
Literature professor at Northeastern University. Book-in-progress: Sweetness and Ruin: A History of Sugar, Race, and Capitalism (Dutton 2026). From the 17th-century plantation to 21st-century diabetes epidemic. Monoculture, autoimmune disease, poetry.
@mayamcantu.bsky.social
Greasepaint Puritan: Boston to 42nd Street in the Queer Backstage Novels of Bradford Ropes, University of Michigan Press ‘24; Drama, Bennington College. www.mayacantu.com/news
@pgagliardi.bsky.social
Teaching Assoc Prof at Marquette University, Dad, Terrible hockey player Buy ALL PLAY AND NO WORK from Temple U Press: https://tupress.templ https://linktr.ee/paul.gagliardi?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=4d83fe13-3508-4b11-b014-666a8afc3
@bonniehonig.bsky.social
PhD. political theorist, feminist, cultural critic, and a 2023-24 Guggenheim Fellow working on a book about performativity (the good kind). New article on Singin in the Rain ☔️ and Sorry to Bother You 🐴 out now in Cultural Critique
@kvnrrdn.bsky.social
Modernism | Theater | World Literature teaching @ Temple University, Japan Campus (Kyoto)
@robinmbernstein.bsky.social
Author of Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit. https://scholar.harvard.edu/robinbernstein/home ; robinbernsteinphd.com . Inventor of the leg mullet (business in the front, party in the back).
@nfesette.bsky.social
Associate prof of theater at Oxford College of Emory University. Abolition, critical prison studies, performance studies, drama
@cermatori.bsky.social
www.josephcermatori.com writer, critic, editor, historian "drama and the arts of performance" - Author: Baroque Modernity: An Aesthetics of Theater (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
@signylynch.bsky.social
Theatre nerd, she/her | Contemporary intercultural, intermedial, diasporic & Black theatres in Canada; audience research; theatre criticism | Asst Prof at UofT (Mississauga and CDTPS)
@jenps.bsky.social
Performance scholar and author of Cyborg Theatre. Writes about theatre, multimedia, animal studies and more!
@somethingmodern.bsky.social
I work with archives + bodies + technology. Professor of Performance and Technology; Head of Digital Research; Co-Director, Centre for Performance, Technology, and Equity (PTEQ). Also Moving Data. www.kateelswit.org
@vcwiet.bsky.social
Archives of the performing arts, British novel, and history of sexuality | Connoisseur of underperforming NYC sports teams | probably rewatching Mad Men. Opinions mine.
@cdelgadogarcia.bsky.social
Lecturer in Theatre & Performance at the University of Glasgow. Contemporary British/European playwriting, performance, dramaturgy and political theory. Next book is on Tim Crouch (MUP). Also: 🌿🚴🌈🎉 Orgullosament xarnega. Hola!
@pmckelveyphd.bsky.social
Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation (NYU, 2024) Pre-Order from NYU Press beginning June 16, 2024: shorturl.at/fknH7 30% off from nyupress.org with code NYUP30 Pre-Order from Amazon Now: https://shorturl.at/guFQ4
@cgrobe.bsky.social
Associate Prof. of English at Johns Hopkins. Posts my own. Theorist/historian of performance. ART OF CONFESSION (http://bit.ly/2BALZDt). Now writing on tech&the arts, politics&performance.
@shaxbull.bsky.social
Peer-reviewed quarterly journal, publishing articles at the cutting edge of early modern performance studies. Posts by Dr. Peter Kirwan and Katy Shinas.
@benbroadribb.bsky.social
Performance Reviews Editor for Shakespeare Bulletin | Shakespeare on screen(s) | Shakespop | metamodernism | performance | adaptation | cinema | theatre | he/him/his
@syates.bsky.social
Asst. Prof at Penn State. Dramaturg. Write on disability/crip studies, queerness, musicals, literature, aesthetics, performance, and access. deaf. they/he. https://samuelryates.com
@kellenhoxworth.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the University at Buffalo - SUNY. Author of “Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance”: https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810147072/transoceanic-blackface/
@sidbranca.bsky.social
i make & study moving images, the pervert’s medium 🎭🩸📹 into queer horror, where film meets stage performance, & watching every clown movie 🎪 experimental filmmaker, video editor, & adjunct faculty. they/them.📍Chicago & all over https://linktr.ee/sidbranca
@msteuernagel.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Theater @ The New School Performance & Politics | Brazilian & Latin American Studies newschool.edu/lang/faculty/marcos-davi-silva-steuernagel
@meiver.bsky.social
Dancer. PhD in Performance Studies. Visiting faculty in Gender, Sexuality Studies, and Anthropology at Whitman. Writing about the political economy of diaspora dance communities; queer, feminist and transnational performance.
@johnhaas.bsky.social
Voice Teacher/Vocal Consultant | Advisor | NYC | Former Northwestern Theatre Professor | Iowa born | big fan of you—ask anyone. 🏳️🌈he/him
@drjokrobinson.bsky.social
Interim PVC, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Newcastle University. Also Professor of Theatre and Performance occasionally researching performance, place, community with a historiographical twist. Views are my own.
@theatrevicki.bsky.social
Theatre historian, dramaturg, intimacy choreographer, dog mom. Assistant Professor at San Francisco State University. Opinions are my own.
@bpitch.bsky.social
Professor of Theatre, lover of music and all things outdoors, dad to a couple cool kids, husband to the best one.
@ecolleary.bsky.social
Curator of Performing Arts @ Harry Ransom Center | Theatre, Libraries, Museums, Digital Humanities, and Nonprofits | (he/him) 🏳️🌈 https://www.hrc.utexas.edu/collections/performing-arts/ https://www.stagestories.org
@robertamock.bsky.social
Professor of Performance and Dean of School of Performing & Digital Arts at Royal Holloway, London. 🇨🇦 in UK for a long time now. Tikkun olam 🍉. She/her. Posting in personal capacity only.
@csvich.bsky.social
Writer for Performance. 2024 Guggenheim Fellow. Plays: Red Bike, 12 Ophelias, Iphigenia Crash Land Falls.... Film: Fugitive Dreams. Artistic Director of New Play Development at Lortel Theater/NY. Editor at Contemporary Theatre Review/UK. Views mine.
@cmcanning.bsky.social
Performance historian. Reader. Teacher. Feminist. Views my own and represent no one else. She/hers
@ryandonovan.bsky.social
Author | BROADWAY BODIES and QUEER APPROACHES IN MUSICAL THEATRE Assistant Professor of Theater Studies | Duke University ryan-donovan.com
@stinkylulu.bsky.social
writer, teacher, scholar • professing on pathologies of popular performance, past & present • planted in the Garden Swamp, rooted in the Land of Enchantment • he/him+ https://linktr.ee/stinkylulu
@gluzmania.bsky.social
* theater meets brain science & goes on a bender * research-creation * research-as-theater (RaT!) * feminist STS * making & doing * compelled to collaborate || Univ of Alberta || Ugly Duckling Presse || https://ualberta.academia.edu/YelenaGluzman
@travisstern.bsky.social
PhD in theatre history - American theatre history, improv, comedy, and baseball performance. Cloverfield monster in disguise. Self loathing with a hint of lime. 1st book: Ballplayers on Stage (at UTenn P)
@jshan.bsky.social
Theater historian, educator, captain of the world's most mediocre softball team
@emfinck.bsky.social
Theatre Historiography PhD candidate TL;DR: bodies mean things; phenomenology rules, semiotics drools. she/her
@shelbybrew.bsky.social
editing + indexing for nonfiction writers at eyebrighteditorial.com performance studies, cultural studies, philosophy, environmental humanities shelbybrewster.com 📍Belgrade, Serbia
@slstalter.bsky.social
English prof, writing about NYC performance and mobility. Modernist, mom. Work in Progress: The New York Hippodrome: A Kaleidoscopic Cultural History. Pronouns: she/her. https://www.sunnystalterpace.com/hippodrome
@mrstandler.bsky.social
feminist. mt lover & lecturer. director. childless cat lady. gin drinker. shape puller. she/her. all opinions are my own. https://instagram.com/clare_directs?utm_source=qr&igshid
@justinrawlins.bsky.social
Prof Media/Film | Author: Imagining the Method http://bit.ly/43QVOa4 | Research: acting, celebrity, screen histories, Arctic media | he/him
@ltridley.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Blk Theatre & Performance (newbie sports scholar) Blk Feminist - Queer - Co-Host of @dolorrainepod- Ex-Hooper - Gamer (Sims, Creed, EA)
@noemontez.bsky.social
Theatre and Performance Scholar Associate Professor of Theater, Emory ASTR VP for Publications. I write about Latinx/Latin American Performance, Theatre in Higher Education, Critical University Studies, and Sport as Performance.
@pannill.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof. Performing Arts, WUSTL. Author of The First Frame. 18c France, social theory, freemasonry. Co-host, www.ontappod.com.
@amandarosevphd.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Performance & Pedagogy. I think of myself as an Ethical Paladin but am known for intimacy choreography, larp, immersive theatre, laughing loudly, teaching teachers, adopting dogs, & editing the Journal of Consent-Based Performance