Cory Tamler (www.corytamler.com) is a writer, translator, and interdisciplinary artist whose practice is rooted in theatre, performance as research, and community organizing. She has created and participated in research-based performance projects in the U.S., Germany, and Serbia, and is a core artist with civic arts organization Open Waters in Maine. Cory was a Fulbright Scholar (Berlin), has held fellowships at the James Gallery and the New Museum, and her academic and critical writing and translations have been published in The Mercurian, Studies in Musical Theatre, Asymptote, Culturebot, The Offing, Extended Play, Howlround, and SCENA. As a Ph.D. student in Theatre and Performance at The Graduate Center, CUNY, she studies open-ended artistic work from social practice to community-based theatre in the Balkans, Germany, and the US. She teaches in the Department of Theater at Brooklyn College and is a member of Commitment Experiment, an experimental performance collective.