I am a researcher, teacher, deviser, performer, and director. My practical background in acting, devising, and dance informs my research into the cognitive dimensions of performance. I work at the confluences of movement, acting, actor-training, performance, and 4E cognitive science. I have written about devising, Lecoq pedagogy, theatre and imagination, practice-as-research, enaction, prediction in performance, Edward Gordon Craig, the figure of the actor-creator, and shared heritages of physical theatre and postmodern dance. My recent book, Practice, Research and Cognition in Devised Performance (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama 2025) compares how different research methodologies help us understand the complexities of devising. One of my long-term projects, "Gazing Eastward," investigates Asian influences on Western and intercultural actor training. The current iteration of this project looks at intercultural performance, actor training, and cognition. I also have an abiding interest in collaboration, both among the arts and between the arts and sciences. I coordinate the MA Coursework Programme in Theatre and Performance Studies and am Director of the International Network for Cognition, Theatre and Performance. I received my BA in Theater Studies from Yale University, trained in Lecoq-based pedagogy at the London International School of Performing Arts (LISPA), and earned my Ph.D. in Theatre and Drama from the University of California, San Diego in its joint program with UC Irvine. I am the author of Enacting Lecoq: Movement in Theatre, Cognition, and Life (Palgrave Macmillan 2019) and a cofounder of a movement-based devising collective, Autopoetics.