DTaP Executive Board
Winter Phong, Chair
[email protected] Dr. Winter Phong is an Assistant Professor of Arts Administration at the University of Kentucky. She advocates for disability through her research, practice, and teaching. Her work emphasizes what she describes as “IDEAS for Change.” Phong expands on DEI/EDI (Diversity Equity Inclusivity) training to consider Accessibility (I-inclusivity, D-diversity, E-equity, A-accessibility), a consideration for physical, psychological, and systematic limitations that inhibit the work of DEI professionals along with barriers that continue to prevent underserved, underrepresented, ignored, and previously excluded groups from participating in cultural activities. Further, she hopes to develop actionable practices that create Sustainable (S) changes within arts organizations. Too often DEI and Accessibility, in particular, fail to consider long-term changes, those that might be sustainable over the new life of an organization. Given her own experiences with disability, she hopes to break down barriers and create more opportunities for engagement in the arts. |
Nicolas Shannon Savard, Conference Planner
[email protected] Nicolas Shannon Savard, PhD (they/them) is a queer-trans multidisciplinary artist-scholar, educator, solo performer, and host of two series: Gender Euphoria, the Podcast and Pedagogy in Process. As an educator and scholar, Nicolas Shannon aims to cultivate spaces and pedagogies that prioritize equity and accessibility and that are responsive to the embodied experience of participants. Their historical research focuses on the intersections of performance, queer community, and movements for social justice in the United States. Artistically, their work as a solo performer and director presents complex narratives exploring the politics of queerness, madness, and interdependence. At ATHE, they serve as the conference planner for the LGBTQ+ Focus Group, and they are excited to continue in that role with DTAP. |
Eh-den Perlove, Treasurer
[email protected] Eh-den Perlove (she, her) is a Ph.D. candidate in Arts and Cultural Management at the University of Manchester. Her research examines theater’s role in generating sociopolitical change in the contemporary United States, particularly identifying and eliminating structural barriers to the creation and dissemination of marginalized groups’ art. She is currently the director of development of SheNYC Arts, a national nonprofit supporting the work of marginalized gender theater makers. Additionally, she is serving as an inaugural member of the Cultural Development Fund Panel Advisory Committee for the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, a group working to make the cultural funding process more equitable. She has an M.A. in Business Design and Arts Leadership from Savannah College of Art and Design and a B.A. in Drama from Pace University. |
Stephanie Lim, Technology Specialist
[email protected] Stephanie Lim is an educator and scholar whose research focuses on performances of popular music in American Sign Language across stage and screen and how such cultural texts employ the conventions of the genre(s) and a Deaf aesthetics. Stephanie recently earned her PhD in Drama & Theatre from UC Irvine and holds her BA and MA in English from CSU Northridge, where she teaches undergraduate classes in English and Theatre. In addition to DTaP, she currently serves as the Communications Coordinator for the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA), and she previously served as Graduate Student Representative for ATHE’s Music Theatre/Dance Focus Group. Stephanie has also worked as a dramaturg in the Southern California area, with credits on Assassins at East West Players and Fun Home at Chance Theater. Recent publications appear in Journal of American Drama and Theatre, Theatre Journal, Theatre Survey, and Studies in Musical Theatre. |