Keren Zaiontz is Assistant Professor and Queen's National Scholar in Creative Industries in the Global City at Queen's University, Canada. She teaches and supervises students in the Department of Film and Media and the Cultural Studies Graduate Program. Keren is the author of Theatre & Festivals (Red Globe Press, 2018), part of the Theatre & series. Her research on performing arts festivals ranges from co-edited special issues in the journals Contemporary Theatre Review, Canadian Theatre Review, and Public to artist interviews in Ivo van Hove: From Shakespeare to David Bowie (2018), and a book chapter in the Cambridge Companion to International Theatre Festivals (2020). Keren's research commitments have long included social practice and art-activism. Her co-edited book volume, Sustainable Tools for Precarious Times: Performance Actions in the Americas (2019) received the 2020 Association for Theatre in Higher Education Excellence in Editing Award.