In Conversation: Suzanne Bocanegra & Claire Bishop

Kristin Horton is an Associate Professor of Practice in Theater & Directing at NYU’s Gallatin School. A director and educator, she develops new plays, reimagines classics, and creates community-centered works that interrogate race, gender, and class through theatrical experimentation. Her directing credits include the world premiere of Chisa Hutchinson’s horror-comedy Whitelisted at the Contemporary American Theater Festival in 2022, where gentrification takes a ghostly turn. Horton also collaborates internationally on an art-science research project exploring performance and volcanic risk along Italy’s Campi Flegrei coastline.

Sonia Werner is a Clinical Assistant Professor at NYU’s Program in Experimental Humanities & Social Engagement. Her research and teaching areas include the relations between aesthetics and politics, literature and performance, and the question of realism across disparate genres and media. She is currently working on a book entitled “Fringe Realisms: Belated Nations and World Literature,” which tracks experimental writing practices in the global nineteenth century. You can also find her writing published and forthcoming in journals like Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Diacritics, and Poetics Today.