I am a researcher, teacher, and writer interested in how performance shapes systems of power, labor, and cultural life worldwide. I’m currently Assistant Professor of Fine and Performing Arts at Baruch College, CUNY in New York City.

My first book, Performing Corporate Bodies (Routledge, 2024, Honorable Mention, Outstanding Book Award, Association for Theatre in Higher Education), presents the first ethnographic study of corporate theatre—a global management trend that uses performance in workplace training. My next book, Theatres of Extraction, traces how labor is staged and remembered in South Africa—from deep mining shafts to post-industrial heritage sites—offering a broader view of how performance mediates social and economic transformation on a global scale.

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.
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• 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.
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