Moderated by Evangeline Morphos
With Marvin Carlson, Kathleen Chalfant, Christen Clifford, Carl Halberg, Yana Landowne, Karen Malpede,  Tommie J Moore, and Dee Pelletier

Sara Brady is the Managing Editor of TDR. She is Chair of the Department of Communication Arts & Sciences at Bronx Community College and Professor of Theatre and Performance at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of Performance, Politics, and the War on Terror: “Whatever It Takes” (Palgrave, 2012); co-editor with Lindsey Mantoan of Performance in a Militarized Culture (Routledge, 2018); and co-editor with Henry Bial of The Performance Studies Reader, 4th ed. (Routledge, 2025).

Yassi Jahanmir is an international theatre director and scholar whose work sits at the intersection of historical reinterpretation, sport as performance, and cultural exchange. She is the co-founder of the Tucson Fringe Festival and has developed work in the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East. She holds a PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies and has worked extensively in academic and professional theatre contexts.

 

Joan MacIntosh was a founding member of The Performance Group in 1967. With the Group she played Agave and Dionysus in Dionysus in 69,( OBIE Award) a Dark Power in Makbeth, Clementine in Commune, for which she won an OBIE for Distinguished Performance, Jean Harlow in The Beard, Becky Lou in The Tooth of Crime (OBIE), Mother Courage in Mother Courage and Her Children, in New York, and on tour in the US and India, Marilyn Monroe in The Marilyn Project, Jocasta in Ted Hughes adaptation of Seneca’s Oedipus, and Spalding Gray’s mother in Sakonnet Point. In the 59 years that Joan has been a professional actor she has worked with many distinguished directors, among them Richard Schechner, of course, Ivo van Hove, JoAnne
Akalaitis, Joseph Chaikin, Andre Gregory, Richard Foreman, Liz Swados, Liz Diamond, Suzan-Lori Parks, Annie Dorsen, Sir Peter Hall, Richard Jones, Liviu Ciulei, Chris Markle, Zelda Fichandler, Carey Perloff, Michael Greif,
Robert Woodruff, Austin Pendleton, Mary Robinson, Brian Mertes, Travis Preston, and Jo Bonney; and has played many wonderful leading characters with brilliant actors in New York, and in theaters around the world. Additional Awards: Drama Desk for Request Concert; Herald Angel Award for Distinguished Performance in More Stately Mansions, Edinburg Festival; Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Actress in Britannicus; and an OBIE for Sustained Excellence of Performance; JDR III Grant for travel and study in India, Southeast Asia and Papua New Guinea; USIA Grants for India, Southeast Asia and South Africa. She has taught acting internationally throughout her acting career, and currently directs and teaches acting at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University. She is writing a book about her years in the Experimental Theatre, 1967-78. Joan is a Fox Fellow and a member of The Actors Center in NY.