Philip Brankin (any pronoun) is a theater maker, scholar, and educator whose work explores the intersections of performance, technology, digital culture, and queer studies. He has previously taught at Emory University and the University of Georgia. His research examines technological interventions in performance, queer performance strategies in digital spaces, and the ways emerging media reshape participation, embodiment, and collective storytelling. His teaching includes courses in queer theater and performance, devised and ensemble-based theater, and a variety of approaches to dramatic text analysis.
As a director, writer, dramaturg, and media designer, his creative practice centers on devised performance, digital dramaturgy, and community-engaged storytelling. His recent work includes an ensemble-based devised adaptation of George Etherege's 1676 Restoration Comedy The Man of Mode set in the Manosphere, recipient of Emory University's LGBT+ Impact Circle Award, and [The Georgia Incarceration Performance Project], an interdisciplinary performance and public humanities initiative recognized by the National Council on Public History. He has previously worked with organizations including Second City, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, About Face Theatre, Piven Theatre Workshop, Contact Theatre (Manchester, UK), and numerous storefronts in Chicago and beyond.
performance and technology, digital performance, queer theory and performance, comedy studies, devised theater, public humanities, media dramaturgy, and community-engaged performance.
