María José Contreras Lorenzini

María José Contreras Lorenzini is a multidisciplinary artist-scholar working in the international
field of theatre and performance. She is an Associate Professor of Theatre at the School of the
Arts, Columbia University. She is the author of Viscous Performances: The Persistence of
Creative Resistance in Neoliberal Chile, forthcoming from Duke University Press. She is also co-
editor of Women Mobilizing Memory (Columbia University Press, 2019) and Cadáver exquisito:
tres experiencias de investigación performativa en Chile (Oso Liebre, 2020).
Her creative work, presented throughout the Americas and Europe, includes theatre
productions, site-specific performances, durational performances, and urban interventions. She
is one of seventy international artists featured in The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader
(Routledge, 2020) as a leading artist in the field. Her most recent works include Antigone Adrift,
presented at the Centre Pompidou (2024), and The Museum of Unlearning, featured at the
2025 Vienna Art Week.