I am a researcher, teacher, and writer whose work explores how performance shapes systems of power, labor, and cultural life across global contexts. I serve as an Assistant Professor of Fine and Performing Arts at Baruch College (CUNY) in New York City.

My first book, Performing Corporate Bodies (Routledge, 2024)—awarded Honorable Mention for the 2025 Outstanding Book Award by the Association for Theatre in Higher Education—offers the first ethnographic study of corporate theatre, a global management trend that integrates performance into workplace training. My second book, Theatres of Extraction, examines how industrial labor is staged and remembered in South Africa, illuminating how performance mediates social and economic transformation. My writing has also appeared in Performance Research, TDR/The Drama Review, RIDE: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, and AGITATE!.

Upcoming Events:
“Why Are We Here? Money.”: Industrial Theatre and the Cultural Logics of Extraction in South Africa, WISER Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand — March 16, 2026 via Zoom 

Recent Media

• Applied Theatre Podcast with Tom Craig
  A conversation about Performing Corporate Bodies, where I unpack how theatre-based training programs have become a popular worldwide management trend — and what this means for labor, aesthetics, and power in the global South and beyond.

• Ethnographic Marginalia on the New Books Network
  I join the Ethnographic Marginalia series to discuss the fieldwork behind Performing Corporate Bodies, the embodied and aesthetic dimensions of corporate theatre, and what performance ethnography can reveal about contemporary capitalism’s theatrical strategies and logics.