Jessica Watkin

Artistic Producer, Bodies in Translation

Jessica Watkin is a PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto’s Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies with research focusing on Disabled artists in Canada and their creation processes, dramaturgies, and support systems. She is a Blind and Disabled scholar, interdisciplinary artist, dramaturg, consultant, educator, and reader. She has been published in the Canadian Theatre Review, The Drama Review, and Theatre Research in Canada, and has attended Theatre Research conferences internationally. She currently co-facilitates the Disability, Pedagogy, and Performance Working Group at the Canadian Association of Theatre Research and is working to co-create definitions of what Accessibility Design and Disability Dramaturgy mean in a Canadian context.