Joanna Evans
PH.D. CANDIDATE, M.A. '17
Joanna Evans is a South African theatre artist and performance scholar working in New York and Cape Town. They are a Ph.D. candidate in Performance Studies at NYU, researching the intersection of improvised performance and environmental subsistence in South Africa and the southern United States. Their creative practice is organized around collaboration and open-ended inquiry, and their plays have toured throughout South Africa, as well as to international festivals in Italy, Germany, Iran, Hungary, Réunion and the United States. Peer-reviewed publications include Unsettled Matters, Falling Flight: De-colonial Protest and the Becoming-Material of an Imperial Statue (TDR 2019), and “The World Trembles:” Borders and Borderlessness in the thought of Édouard Glissant (Women&Performance Journal, forthcoming 2023).
Why PS @ NYU?
Like a lot of people I didn't really know what Performance Studies was when I arrived, but very quickly I realized that this program would give me both the space and the support to explore the questions that are closest to my heart, and would push me to extend that inquiry into fascinating and unexpected places.