» Bryant Keith Alexander, PhD, is Professor and Dean, College of Communication and Fine Arts, and Interim Dean, School of Film and Television, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles. He serves as Affiliate Faculty of the Educational Leadership for Social Justice, Doctoral Program at LMU's School of Education, and Affiliate/Adjunct Faculty in the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music and Performance, Monash University, Melbourne Australia. He is author, co-author or co-editor of seven books: Performance Theories in Education: Power, Pedagogy, and the Politics of Identity (Erlbaum); Performing Black Masculinity: Race, Culture, and Queer Identity (Alta Mira); The Performative Sustainability of Race: Reflections on Black Culture and the Politics of Identity (Peter Lang); Routledge Handbook of Communication and Gender (Routledge); Still Hanging: Using Performance Texts to Deconstruct Racism (Brill|Sense); Collaborative Spirit-Writing and Performance in Everyday Black Lives (Routledge); and Performative Intergenerational Dialogues of a Black Quartet (Routledge).

» Mariana Baruco M. Andraus is a dancer and artistic director graduated in Dance from UNICAMP (Brazil), with bachelor's, master's and PhD degrees in this area. She is the author of several books and articles on dance, relationship between dance and martial arts, Indian dance, creative process, among others. [ORCID; ResearchGate]

» Athil Banna has a Masters degree from the Historical Studies Department at Nalanda University, India. He has graduated in sociology from Calicut University and holds a Bachelor's degree in Social Sciences at Ibn Khaldun Institution, India. Currently, he is working as a reviewer at EXARC Journal. His research interests include the Philosophy of History and the Theory and Method in Religious Studies.

» Natália Bíscaro is a dance teacher with a Bachelor Degree in Dance and a Teaching Degree in Arts–Dance from UNICAMP (São Paulo). Her current work has a therapeutic aspect, connecting female archetypes and the elements of nature to dance movements.

» Sharon Bridgforth Sharon Bridgforth is recipient of a 2022 Windham-Campbell Award in Drama. A New Dramatists alum, she is a McKnight Fellow, a Playwrights' Center Core Member, and has received support from the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, Creative Capital, MAP Fund and the National Performance Network. Sharon has been a part of Rites and Reason Theatre's Black Lavender Experience at Brown University since its inception. [website].

» Chandler L. Classen is a PhD candidate in the department of communication at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. As a performance studies scholar, he studies the relationships between environmental crisis, extinction, and how communities use performance to fight back and enact lively ways of becoming in an increasingly polluted world. His work currently appears in Text and Performance Quarterly, and Feminist Media Studies.

» Julie Cosenza is a Performance Studies scholar-practitioner. Their research interests lie at the intersections of queer theory and critical disability studies. With an interdisciplinary background in Theatre Arts, Women and Gender Studies, and Communication Studies, their research and performance activism works to subvert dominant notions of normative embodiment.

» Jose Miguel (Miggy) Esteban is a Filipino-Canadian dance/movement artist and educator based in Tkaronto/Toronto. Miggy is currently a PhD student at the Department of Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, where his research is oriented through disability studies and dance/performance studies. Influenced by disability arts and culture, Black radical traditions, Indigenous storytelling, and queer performance, his work engages in embodied practices of improvised research-creation to encounter the interpretation of gesture as a site for inspiring pedagogies of/through dance. His work has been published in Canadian Theatre Review, Disability Studies Quarterly, Journal for Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, and in various edited volumes.

» Drew Finney (they/them) is a graduate student in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University. Their current work focuses on social movements, disability, and resistance.

» Fernanda Gândara is a dance teacher with a Bachelor and Teaching Degree in Dance from UNICAMP (University of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil), and also graduated as holistic therapeutic and yoga instructor by Yogaterapia and Pequenos Yogis. Currently she works as dance and yoga teacher and manages her own studio: Travessia Studio - Arte e Movimento working with different aspects of the whole mind, body and soul through art and movement with dance and yoga as fundamental bases.

» Peter Joseph Gloviczki (Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Mass Communication, 2012) examines representation in the digital age. He is particularly interested in the ways that memorialization and mediated narration either hold space for or obscure voices that are most often othered or excluded in mediated discourses. He works as Professor and Chairperson in the Department of Broadcasting and Journalism at Western Illinois University. He also serves as an assistant editor of the Journal of Loss and Trauma (Taylor & Francis). Gloviczki is active in both the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) and the Carolinas Communication Association (CCA). His first book is Journalism and Memorialization in the Age of Social Media (Palgrave Mac-millan, 2015) and his second book is Mediated Narration in a Digital Age: Storying the Media World (University of Nebraska Press, 2021).

» Eric Gottlieb Eric Gottlieb is an undergraduate at Brown University's Department of History. His research centers on aesthetic movements throughout early modern and contemporary history—from Omi Osun Joni L. Jones' theatrical jazz to the Techialoyan Codex of Santa María Tetelpan. Winner of the 2022 Black Theater Network's 36th Annual S. Randolf Edmond's Young Scholars' Competition and the 2022 Luis A. Pagan New Pioneer Legacy Award, Eric has been a member of Brown's Rites and Reason Theatre since 2021.

» Lyndsay Michalik Gratch is an Assistant Professor of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Syracuse University. Her research and creative work focus on the intersections of performance, adaptation, communication, and digital culture, exploring how the physical and virtual have become intertwined in everyday life and how social norms and discourses that develop alongside digital technologies affect everyday life communication and creative performance practices. She is the author of Adaptation Online: Creating Memes, Sweding Movies, and Other Digital Performances (Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield, 2017) and co-author of Digital Performance in Everyday Life (Routledge, 2021) with Ariel Gratch of Utica College.

» Jonathan M. Gray holds the William and Galia Minor Professorship of Creative Communication and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies, Southern Illinois University Carbondale. His primary research interests involve performative inquiries into the social construction of nature. His other scholarly interests reside at the intersections of queer identity, environmental advocacy, and aesthetic communication. His published work has appeared in Rhetoric & Society Quarterly, QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, Text and Performance Quarterly, Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, and The Drama Review, among other venues. He has been a director and performer in a number of solo and group performances that deal with environmental themes, including his solo performance, Trail Mix: A Sojourn on the Muddy Divide between Nature and Culture and Cross/Walking. Dr. Gray's illustration work has appeared in Rhetoric & Society Quarterly, Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, Palooka: A Journal of Underdog Excellence, Zeszyty Komiksowe, and Xerolage.

» Devon Healey is an Assistant Professor of Disability Studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. All of her work is grounded in her experience as a blind woman guided by a desire to show how blindness specifically and disability more broadly can be understood as offering an alternate form of perception and is thus, a valuable and creative way of experiencing and knowing the world. She is the author of Dramatizing Blindness: Disability Studies as Critical Creative Narrative (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). Devon is an award-winning actor and the co-founder of Peripheral Theatre. In 2020 she was awarded a commission by Outside the March (Dora award-winning Toronto theatre company) to both write and perform in Rainbow on Mars, a sensory reclamation of blindness.

» Jason Hedrick is a playwright, theatre director, and film obsessive who is currently completing his doctoral thesis on the intersection of film and performance studies in the department of Communication Studies at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. He directed the Dr. Jerry Weston Mathis Theatre at Sauk Valley College in Dixon, IL between 2001 and 2011. He has produced work with The Greylight Theater Collective, the Marion Kleinau Theater of Performance Studies at SIUC, and the Christian H. Moe Lab Theatre at SIUC. His plays include Vanya on the Plains, 4 FILMS, The Final Chapter of Nic Carter: The Price, Kurt Vonnegut's The Euphio Question, and The Big Jason Hedrick's Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Show: The Play That Never Was. In 2018, Vanya on the Plains was published in Text and Performance Quarterly and received a "World Premiere" in September at the Artistic Home in Chicago. He is currently working on a play about cult deprogramming called Sing Sing Sing.

» Charles Christian Jones is a writer, editor, and aspiring filmmaker living in New Orleans, LA. Earning his Bachelor's in Film Production and Screenwriting from Louisiana State University in 2020, he is currently earning his Masters in Film Production from the University of New Orleans. Charles works on numerous local student film productions as an Assistant Director, Cinematographer, and Writer. He also works on several profession sets as a locations assistant.

» Jennifer Keane-Dawes, Ph.D., is Professor in the Department of English and Modern Languages at the University of Maryland's Eastern Shore campus (UMES). She emigrated from her native Jamaica to the United States in 1991; earned her MA and Ph.D. degrees in Human Communication Studies at Howard University; achieved professional certification in Organizational Leadership from Harvard's Graduate School of Education; and has served in various capacities in academia in the United States for many years. She is a former President of the Council of Historically Black Graduate Schools and a member of the GRE Board Committee on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. She is a journalist by training and has written hundreds of indigenous literary essays published in the Jamaican, Cana- dian, American and British editions of the Gleaner newspaper.

» Zechariah Lange is a qualitative researcher working to understand the intersections between lived experiences, narrative constructions, and identities through a variety of cultural and performative means. He currently moved to Charlotte, NC, to pursue his passions in research. If you would like to collaborate with him please contact at zlange@stetson.edu .

» Michael LeVan teaches at Washington State University Vancouver and at Temple University. He is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Liminalities.

» Lore/tta LeMaster, Ph.D. (she/they) lives, loves, and creates on stolen Akimel O'otham and Piipaash land currently called Arizona. She is assistant professor of critical/cultural communication studies in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University. Her scholarship engages the intersectional constitution of cultural difference with particular focus on queer and trans of color life, art, and embodiment. She is a fulltime caretaker, worldmaker, and avid eater of donuts and tacos.

» Bonny McDonald is a teaching artist, performer, and educator interested in communication and performance pedagogy. She holds a Ph.D in Performance Studies from LSU where she teaches in the Communication Studies department as the Director of Basic Courses.

» Johanna Middleton is a MA candidate in Performance Studies at Louisiana State University where she is focused on the applications of performing personal narrative. A storyteller and arts educator, she deeply values facilitating spaces for others to tell their stories.

» Keith Nainby is professor of Communication Studies at California State University, Stanislaus. His research interests include critical communication pedagogy, philosophy of communication, and performance studies. His most recent publications include Bob Dylan in Performance: Song, Stage, and Screen (with John M. Radosta), a chapter in Polyvocal Bob Dylan, and two introductory books on communication (with Deanna L. Fassett).

» Elyse Lamm Pineau is an Emeritus professor of Communication/Performance Studies at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, where her work focused on women's lived and literary narratives, all aspects of stage production, and critically-engaged, arts-based pedagogies. Her research has appeared in American Educational Research, Qualitative Inquiry, Text and Performance Quarterly, as well as (in translation) for education journals in Brazil and Taiwan. Elyse was given the Leslie Irene Coger award for Distinguished Performance scholarship, as well multiple awards for outstanding teaching. The privilege of academic retirement has opened up new territories for community engagement, new demographics for collaboration, and new forms of artistic and political expression. This collaboration with videographer, Jason Hedrick, is one such exploration.

» Laís Rodriguez is a dance teacher graduated with a Bachelor in Dance and Teaching Degree in Arts–Dance from UNICAMP.(São Paulo). A self-taught Hula Hoop performer since 2016, she concluded her Teaching Degree (at UNICAMP) with the manuscript, "Relationships of Affection in Dance Teaching mediated by Hula-hoops," in Portuguese. She works as a researcher-dancer-interpreter, art educator and hula hoop performer.

» Christina Rodriguez de Conte (Ph.D., Theatre Studies, Florida State University) is an artist, educator, and activist. She has worked extensively with The Mickee Faust Club in Tallahassee, FL, and is writer and director of the tragic-musical comedy The Mystery of the Violated Vagina.

» Reshma Roseline J is an India-based researcher and writer specializing in performance studies of resistance. Her recent publications are on queer studies and include the essays "In Focus: Decoding the Connotation" and "Questioning Binaries: On Over-looking Culture and Postgenderism."

» Misty Saribal is a doctoral candidate at Louisiana State University. Her research and teaching interests focus on prison abolition, race, gender, and class studies. She stages economic, political, and performance theories using a broad range of performance methods aimed at proposing a role for performance in wider discourse about prison abolition and utopian world-building.

» Evan Schares is an assistant professor of Performance Studies in the Department of Communication at Villanova University.

» Evan Scott-Pollock, PhD, is a senior lecturer of physics at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.

» Julie-Ann Scott-Pollock is a Professor of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Her research and performance work focus on Personal Narrative as Performance of Identity in Daily Life with a focus on stigmatized embodiment. She is the director of UNCW Performance Studies which includes the UNCW Storytellers, UNCW Hawk Tale Players, and the Just Us Performance Troupe for Social Justice that perform annually. She also directs UNCW Performance Ethnography that most recently staged narratives from her current research project: Seizing: Personal Stories of Living with Seizures. Scott-Pollock is the recipient of the National Communication Association's Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance Studies, Ethnographic Article of the Year Award, Best Ethnographic Book Award, the Best Book Chapter Award, and the Outstanding IDEA Engagement Award. She is also the recipient of the Donald H. Ecroyd Award for Outstanding Teaching in Higher Education. When she is not performing, researching, writing or teaching, she enjoys spending time near the water with her husband Evan and their 5 kids, Tony, Vinny, Nico, Theo and Rosalie. She would like thank Evan, Tony, Vinny, Nico Theo, and Rosalie, Frank Trimble, Rick Olsen, David Pernell, and Robert Seagle for their support in making this performance happen.

» Tracy Stephenson Shaffer (Chair and Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Louisiana State University) is a scholar/artist who produces research on the stage and on the page. Along with the creation/direction of over twenty original performances, her research has appeared in outlets such as Text and Performance Quarterly, Global Performance Studies, and Theatre Annual.

» Patricia A. Suchy is HopKins Professor of Performance Studies and Director of the Screen Arts Program at Louisiana State University.

» Frank P. Trimble is a professor in the UNCW Department of Communication Studies. He served as Department Chair [1994-2007] and then Interim Chair in the Department of Theatre [2009-2011]. Trimble earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in Speech Communication from Southern Illinois University. Primary teaching areas are organizational communication, performance studies, public address, and senior capstone. Research and professional activities encompass stage and screen acting, directing, choreography, script writing, music composition, and producing. Original musical plays include Fly Wright! - The Story of Two Brothers, On A Nutrition Mission!, Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol, and EXTRA! EXTRA! The Musical. Among his video projects are HIV-Stigma in Five Voices, Beneath the Airlie Oak, and PREA Training Video for Youth. Trimble is recipient of several honors as an author/composer, performer, director, and instructor, including the UNC Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching and J. Marshall Crews Distinguished Faculty Award.

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Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies (issn: 1557-2935)

editor-in-chief: Michael LeVan (Washington State University, Vancouver; Temple University; Louisiana State University)
managing editor: Greg Langner (Antelope Valley College)
the city editor: Patrick Duggan (Northumbria University)
digital horizons editors: Craig Gingrich-Philbrook (Southern Illinois University) and Daniel (Jake) Simmons
   (Missouri State University)
performance & pedagogy editor: Robert Gutierrez-Perez
book review editor: Christopher J. McRae (University of South Florida)
banner/issue images by Jonathan M. Gray