Leadership
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Bertie Ferdman
BMCC & THE GRADUATE CENTER, CUNY
Bertie Ferdman is a contemporary performance scholar whose publications include Off Sites (SIU Press, 2018), Critical Companion to Performance Art, (Bloomsbury Press, 2020), and Curating Dramaturgies (Routledge, 2021) co-edited with Peter Eckersall. Her writing has appeared in Theater, TDR, PAJ, Theatre Journal, Theatre Survey, and Performance Research. Bertie is Professor of Theater at BMCC and The Graduate Center, CUNY, and guest teaches at Columbia’s School of the Arts.
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Peter Eckersall
THE GRADUATE CENTER, CUNY
Peter Eckersall is the Sidney E. Cohn Professor in Theatre at The Graduate Center, CUNY. His publications include Dramaturgy to Make Visible: The Legacies of New Dramaturgy for Politics and Performance in Our Times (Routledge 2024), The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics (ed. with Helena Grehan, Routledge 2019), and New Media Dramaturgy (co-authored with Helena Grehan and Ed Scheer, Palgrave 2017).
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Julia Stoyanovich
NYU TANDON SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
Dr. Julia Stoyanovich is Associate Professor of Computer Science & Engineering and of Data Science, and Director of the Center for Responsible AI at NYU. Her goal is to make “responsible AI” synonymous with “AI”. In addition to academic research, she engages in technology policy, has been teaching responsible AI to students, practitioners and the public.
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Michael Byrne
CORNELL TECH
Michael Byrne is Creative Lead for Tech, Arts and Culture at Cornell University’s technology campus, Cornell Tech, and is passionate about the collisions between dance, history, education, and immersive applications. He is a Research Associate of the Digital Life Initiative, and co-leads the Milstein Summer Program in Technology and Humanity.
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R. Luke DuBois
NYU TANDON SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
R. Luke DuBois is a composer, artist, and performer who explores the temporal, verbal, and visual structures of cultural and personal ephemera. He holds a doctorate in music composition from Columbia University, and has lectured and taught worldwide on interactive sound and video performance. Luke is the director of the Brooklyn Experimental Media Center at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering.
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Todd Bryant
NYU TANDON SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
Todd Bryant is an award-winning creative technologist and educator who works across independent art installations, commercial activations, and academia as the Director of Production for NYU Tandon @ The Yard and as an Adjunct Professor in the Integrated Design & Media Program at NYU's Tandon School of Engineering.
STAFF
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Vivian Yining Cao
PRODUCER
Yining Cao (Vivian) is a NYC-based, Chinese-born creative producer and performing arts manager. She has worked across commercial theater, performing arts institutions, and international stages. Her previous experiences include working at Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York City Center, Baryshnikov Arts, Thompson Turner Productions, Broadway & Beyond Theatricals, SMG Live, and more. She is the Producing Associate at Yangtze Repertory Theatre of America. MFA in Theatre Management & Producing, Columbia University.
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Hui Peng
ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGER
Hui Peng is a PhD candidate in Theatre and Performance at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her research explores disability studies, audience studies, and dramaturgy. Hui is the interim convenor of the Performance and Disability Working Group at IFTR. Her writing has appeared in PAJ, Theatre Journal, and The Journal of American Drama and Theatre.
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Chloe Lee
DOCUMENTER/STAFF
Chloe Lee is a researcher/practitioner based in Seoul/New York, currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Theatre and Performance at CUNY Graduate Center. She explores how technological objects communicate with bodies on stage and looks at the moments when memories are fragmented and repeated, focusing on contemporary East Asian performance.
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Esther Neff
DOCUMENTER/STAFF
Esther Neff is the founder of PPL, a performance philosophy thinktank making “operas of operations” across the US and around the world since 2009. Neff is currently a SPCUNY faculty Fellow, a PhD student, and organizing year’s department conference “AS PER SOME FORM" for October 24-25 at the Graduate Center.
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Juhyun Woo
DOCUMENTER/STAFF
Juhyun Woo is a Ph.D. student, lecturer and theatre maker based in New York and Seoul, South Korea. She holds a BA degree in Theatre Directing and an MA degree in Performance Studies and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Theatre and Performance at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research interest includes the ritualization of medical practices on marginalized bodies.
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Melissa Flower-Gladney
DOCUMENTER/STAFF
Melissa Flower-Gladney is a Level II PhD student in Theatre and Performance at CUNY. Her research interests center around movement, biopolitics, and radical pedagogies. Her publications include “Field Notes from the SITI Summer Workshop” published in TDR this year and a chapter in (M)other Perspectives. Currently, she is a student/collaborator in Yoshiko Chuma’s School of Hard Knocks.
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Mia Zhixuan Zhu
DOCUMENTER/STAFF
Zhixuan (Mia) Zhu is a PhD student in Theatre and Performance at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her research interests include theatre and performance translation, puppetry and performing objects, performance and digital media, and site-specific and participatory performance.