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.

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.

Tim Cusack was the co-founder and artistic director of Theatre Askew. For Askew he appeared in Bald Diva! (TheatreMania Notable Performance of the Year), i google myself (NYTheater.com Person of the Year), and Horseplay, here at La MaMa, among others. He is currently developing a new solo show called I’m Not Mike White about the many times he has been confused for the creator of The White Lotus. Last year, he was one of the inaugural recipients of the Rochelle Denton Award in recognition for his years of service to Downtown independent theater. BFA NYU/TSOA. MA Hunter/CUNY. 

Owen McAnuff is a senior in the Experimental Theatre Wing at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. He has trained at the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute and in Tisch’s Berlin-based program Stanislavski, Brecht & Beyond. His recent credits include Girls Against God at Tisch. Alongside his theatre work, he has spent the past four years performing stand-up comedy throughout New York City, and was runner-up in the 2025 New England’s Funniest Comedian Competition. Originally from Portland, Maine, he is drawn to experimental theatre and ensemble-driven performance, and his comedic voice is rooted in slice-of-life observation and character-driven satire.

Daphne Silbiger is a playwright, musician, and visual artist. Her plays include Very Blue Light (Tank Core Production), Attempts (Life World), O The Humanity (The Brick), and Six Years Old, which has been performed at theaters and colleges around the country. Daphne plays bass in the multidisciplinary band Go Home (Uncle John and the Demon of the Wood, Ars Nova), has performed music with Trisha Brown Dance Company (BAM), and makes collage. Her work has been supported by MacDowell, The Sitka Fellows Program, The Center for International Theatre Development, and others. MFA in Playwriting, UT Austin.

Anne Gridley is a two time Obie award-winning actor, dramaturg, and artist. As a founding member of Nature Theater of Oklahoma, she has co-created and performed in critically acclaimed works including Life & Times, Poetics: A Ballet Brut, No Dice, Romeo & Juliet, and Burt Turrido. In addition to her work with Nature Theater, Gridley has performed with Pan Pan, Chameckilerner, Jerôme Bel, Caborca, 7 Daughters of Eve, and Big Dance, served as a Dramaturg for the Wooster Group’s production Who’s Your Dada?, taught devised theater at Bard College, and comedy at Northwestern University. Most recently, she performed her original piece Watch Me Walk at Soho Rep.