o	Queen Mary University of London School of English and Drama http://www.english.qmul.ac.uk/ Curious Performance and Media Curious was formed in 1996 and has produced over 30 projects which have been shown and exhibited widely. http://www.placelessness.com/ Performing Rights PSi # 12 Performing Rights Performing Rights is the 12th international conference of PSi - a festival of creative and critical dialogues investigating the relationships between human rights and performance. http://www.psi12.qmul.ac.uk/about/index.html Performing Rights Library The library of PSi#12 Performing Rights. Sharing performance practice via online collaboration. http://performingrightslibrary.org/ Franklin Furnace On a mission to make the world safe for avant-garde art. http://www.franklinfurnace.org/about/about.html Deb Margolin Deb Margolin is a playwright, performance artist and founding member of Split Britches Theater Company. http://www.yale.edu/margolin.html Bloolips A troupe of anarchic genderbending actors http://www.nyu.edu/classes/GayandLesbian Roma Baran and Vivian Stoll Productions Award winning music production team based in New York City. http://www.myspace.com/baranstollproductions	o	Live Art Development Agency The Live Art Development Agency works to support and develop the Live Art sector, its practices, discourses, infrastructure and audiences. http://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/ Clod Ensemble Created in 1995 by Suzy Willson and Paul Clark in order to produce high quality theatre combining music and drama. http://www.clodensemble.com/ Women's Writing for Performance Strategies employed by women in their writing practices analysing them for their contestation of gender representation. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/theatre/womenwriting/ La Mama Experimental Theatre Club World-renowned cultural organization led by founder Ellen Stewart. http://www.lamama.org Hemispheric Institute A consortium of institutions, artists, scholars, and activists dedicated to exploring the relationship between performance and social and political life in the Americas. http://hemi.nyu.edu/ British Council Arts Lois Weaver/Split Britches profile http://www.britishcouncil.org Stacy Makishi Hawaii-born Stacy Makishi works in a variety of media including site-specific installations, video, new writing, physical theatre and live art. http://www.stacymakishi.com/ Holly Hughes A lesbian feminist performance artist and playwright with a flair for telling the outrageous stories of everyday lesbian life. http://www.glbtq.com/arts/hughes_h.html	o
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