Kimberly Jannarone

Kimberly Jannarone is a scholar and theater-maker trained in dramaturgy and dramatic criticism (Yale School of Drama, M.F.A., D.F.A.), with a focus on avant-garde and experimental performance. Her research interests center on the politics of performance, especially how it acts on the bodies of performers and spectators. Her current book is Mass Performance: Systems and Citizens, which examines the modern systemization of mass performance and its role in creating national bodies politic.

She is currently Professor in the Practice at the Yale School of Drama. She was Professor of Theater at University of California, Santa Cruz from 2001–19, as well as affiliate faculty with the Digital Arts & New Media M.F.A. and the History of Consciousness Ph.D. programs. She has held Fellowships at the Camargo Foundation and the National Humanities Center. Her first book was Artaud and His Doubles, which won the 2010–11 Honorable Mention for the Joe Callaway Prize for best book in drama, and her second book was the edited volume Vanguard Performance Beyond Left and Right (both University of Michigan Press).