Kay Parker Professor in Theatre Arts Associate Professor of Performance Studies Vivian Appler is a scholar/artist with areas of expertise in the science performance, feminist performance, practice-as-research (PaR), devised theatre, and puppetry. She is co-editor of the edited collection, Identity, Culture, and the Science Performance: Volume 1: From the Lab to the Streets (2022) as well as its sister volume, From the Curious to the Quantum (2023). Together, the collection of essays, interviews, and creative works proposes the science performance as a holistic model of cultural production that values multiple creative and critical domains while challenging traditional disciplinary hierarchies and social barriers. Other scholarly writing has been published in PARtake, Global Performance Studies, Theatre History Studies, Theatre Journal, Theatre Survey, The Journal of American Drama and Theatre, Comparative Drama, and the Routledge Guide to Jacques Lecoq. She is a former fellow of the Huntington Library and Fulbright International. Her devised and PaR projects encounter questions pertaining to S.T.E.A.M., access, and equity. At UGA, she directed Silent Sky, by Lauren Gunderson. With the support of a grant from the Willson Center, she has curated a residency, "I Love You (Earth) Day" with performance artists Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens. With The Well Theatre Company, she is collaborating on The Mouse and the Buddha, a multi-media performance that asks questions about mindfulness in children. Full-length devised works about science include Particle Play: A Romance for Quarks, Strings, and Other Things and the solo show, In the Still of the Night: Andromeda’s Dark Stuff, which premiered in 2013. Her research has been supported with grants from NASA’s SC Space Consortium, the South Carolina Arts Commission, SC Humanities, and other organizations. In 2023, she was awarded the Collaborative Research Award from the American Society for Theatre Research for her co-annotation of "A Piece of A Play," by Margaret Cavendish. Education Education: Ph.D., Theatre History and Performance Studies, University of Pittsburgh M.A., Performance Studies, Queen Mary University of London Conservatory, Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre B.A., Theatre, College of William and Mary Research Research Areas: Performance Studies Interdisciplinary Arts Performance Art Grants Grants: Fulbright Fellowship, IIE, Switzerland Huntington Library, Dibner Research Fellowship in the History of Science and Technology American Society for Theatre Research Collaborative Research Award SC Arts Commission, Arts Education SC Humanities Grant Karen Alane Robinson Children's Literature Fellowship Selected Publications Selected Publications: Vivian Appler and Meredith Conti (eds), Identity, Culture, and the Science Performance, Volume 1: From the Lab to the Street (London: Bloomsbury, 2022) Vivian Appler and Meredith Conti (eds), Identity, Culture, and the Science Performance, Volume 2: From the Curious to the Quantum (London: Bloomsbury, 2023) Vivian Appler with Kenya Gadsden, "The 'A' in STEAM: PAR as Fifth-Space for Research and Learning in the Arts and Sciences," PARtake: The Journal of Performance as Research 4.1 (2021) Vivian Appler, "Titan's 'Goodbye Kiss': NASA's Allegorical Rockets and the Conquest of Space," Global Performance Studies 2.2 (2019) Vivian Appler, " 'Shuffled together under the Name of a Farce': Finding Nature in Aphra Behn's The Emperor of the Moon," Theatre History Studies (2018) Vivian Appler, "Moonwalking with Laurie Anderson: Imagining a Feminist Performance of Science in Laurie Anderson's The End of the Moon," Journal of American Drama and Theatre 28.2 (2016) Vivian Appler, "Among Actions, Objects, and Ideas: The Telescope in Thomas Tomkis's Albumazar," Comparative Drama 50.1 (Spring 2016) Courses Regularly Taught Courses Regularly Taught: THEA 4220 THEA 4280 THEA2000
