Fall 2023 FSS: "Waiting for Lady Phoenix: Allegory, Gender, and the Science Performance"

Dr. Vivian Appler is a scholar/artist with areas of expertise in the science performance, feminist performance, and practice-as-research (PaR). She is co-editor of the collection, Identity, Culture, and the Science Performance: Volume 1: From the Lab to the Streets (2022) as well as its forthcoming sister volume, From the Curious to the Quantum (2023). Other scholarly writing at the intersection of science and performance has been published in PARtake, Global Performance Studies, Theatre History Studies, Theatre Journal, Theatre Survey, The Journal of American Drama and Theatre, and Comparative Drama. She is a former fellow of the Huntington Library and Fulbright International. With The Well Theatre Company, she is collaborating on The Mouse and the Buddha, a multi-media performance that asks questions about mindfulness and digital performance for young audiences. Full-length devised works about science include Particle Play: A Romance for Quarks, Strings, and Other Things and the solo show, In the Still of the Night: Andromeda’s Dark Stuff. Her research has been supported by grants from NASA’s SC Space Consortium, the South Carolina Arts Commission, SC Humanities, and other organizations.