Carrie Sandahl (Writer, Producer, Interviewee) is an artist/scholar and Associate Professor in the Department of Disability and Human Development at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is also the director Chicago’s Bodies of Work, an organization that promotes disability arts and culture year-round through partnerships with cultural institutions and producing original work. Her own research and creative activity focus on disability and gender identities in live performance, including theatre, dance, and performance art. Sandahl has published numerous research articles and an anthology she co-edited with Philip Auslander, Bodies in Commotion: Disability and Performance (University of Michigan Press), garnered the Association for Theatre in Higher Education’s award for Outstanding Book in Theatre Practice and Pedagogy.