Natalie Alvarez is Associate Dean of Scholarly, Research and Creative Activities and Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies in the School of Performance at Toronto Metropolitan University with research specializations in performance studies, contemporary political performance and rights emergencies in the Americas, immersive performance in the public sphere, Latinx diasporic performance, art activism, and scenario-based pedagogy. She is author of Immersions in Cultural Difference: Tourism, War, Performance (U of Michigan Press, 2018) winner of the Ann Saddlemyer Book Prize by the Canadian Association for Theatre Research (CATR); co-editor with Keren Zaiontz and Claudette Lauzon of Sustainable Tools for Precarious Times: Performance Actions in the Americas (Palgrave Macmillan 2019), winner of the Excellence in Editing award by the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE); and editor of Latina/o Canadian Theatre and Performance and Fronteras Vivientes: Eight Latina/o Canadian Plays (Playwrights Canada Press, 2013), winners of the 2014 and 2015 Patrick O’Neill Award by CATR. Her most recent book, Theatre & War, is currently in press with Bloomsbury and due for release in January 2023. Her work has been published widely in international journals and essay collections.