Marissa Fenley
is a Harper Schmidt Collegiate Assistant Professor in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Chicago and the Literary Fellow at Court Theatre. Her scholarship theorizes the ways that theatrical techniques, from puppetry practice to affective prosthetics to plasticity, put the natural body under pressure. Marissa is a Founding Editor and current Associate Editor at Mid Theory Collective, a digital little magazine on the contemporary. She is also a dramaturg and puppeteer and works with Chicago-based theater company, Local Lab Co., to incubate community-driven new works.