Madeline Shuron (they/she) studied theater at Bryn Mawr College and is an MFA candidate and lecturer in dance at Temple University. As an artist and educator based in Philadelphia, she is interested in investigating embodied affect and interrogating the audience-performer relationship through an interdisciplinary approach of dance, theater, film, puppetry, and clowning. Their scholarship blends film, literature, educational pedagogy practices, and performance studies into a delicious mix of joy and play. Madeline’s work (both artistically and scholarly) has been witnessed at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Temple University, the Lawrence Art Center (KS), and Post45, and she has given lecture-demonstrations at University of North Carolina at Asheville as well as Massachusetts Institute of Technology.