Embodied Cognition, Acting and Performance (PDF)

Experience Bryon, PhD. is Senior Lecturer at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama specializing in Practice as Research and Interdisciplinary Performance, UK. She is also author of Integrative Performance: Practice and Theory for the Interdisciplinary Performer (Routledge 2014) and Performing Interdisciplinarity: Working Across Disciplinary Boundaries Through an Active Aesthetic (Routledge 2018).

J. Mark Bishop is Professor of Cognitive Computing at Goldsmiths and Director of TCIDA: The Centre for Intelligent Data Analytics. Mark also serves as a 'co-opted expert on Artificial Intelligence' for ICRAC: the International Committee for Robot Arms Control.

Deirdre McLaughlin is a PhD candidate at The Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, UK. Deirdre has directed and performed in over 50 productions within the US and UK with companies including Shakespeare's Globe, Battersea Arts Centre, and National Theatre Studio. Her research interests include applications of cognitive science to the actor's process.

Jess Kaufman is practitioner-researcher in New York, USA, investigating experiences of meaning-making in audience responsive devising. She has been published in Theatre and Performance Design and ArtsPraxis, and her credits include Off-Broadway and US national tours. MA in Advanced Theatre Practice, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.