Blood Heron - Pleasure Pier
Audio recording project
and
Dramaturgies of Distance
Sound, Itinerancy, and Epistolary Performance
(in development)
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Her scholarly and creative activities reflect a multidisciplinary practice concerned with embodiment, nonhumans, and the limits of materiality in performance. More broadly, her projects investigate the material traces and afterlives of performance (theatre, dance, and music), asking how artistic events persist, transform, or disappear through social practices and technologies: letters, recordings, archives, and acts of remembrance.
Current projects include Pleasure Pier, a new
record written and performed under the name Blood Heron, produced by Sandro Perri (forthcoming 2027); Dramaturgies of Distance: Sound, Itinerancy, and Epistolary Performance, a companion artist book; Last of the Rhinestone Cowboys, a Canada Council–funded research-creation project, and a monograph on the nonhuman in performances of the long nineteenth century. From 2021 to 2024, she served as Book Review Editor for Theatre Research in Canada/Recherches théâtrales au Canada (University of Toronto Press). She is based in Tkaronto, the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee, the Anishinaabe, and the Mississaugas of the Credit, and is Assistant Professor in the Department of Dramatic Arts at Brock University.