Dr Elizabeth de Roza is an artist-scholar, performance-maker, director, dramaturge and actor-movement trainer. As a practising artist, Elizabeth is known for her cross-cultural theatrical production. She collaborated on many international performance projects and presented them at various prestigious contemporary theatre festivals in South America, Europe, the UK, and Asia. Elizabeth holds a PhD (Theatre and Performance), and her research focuses on cross-cultural embodied experiences, thinking, and practice through making at the intersections of both decolonial and feminist theories. She has published her research in various theatre and performance journals. She convenes the Embodied Research Working Group within the International Federation for Theatre Research and serves on the executive committee of IFTR. She is also an assistant editor of the Journal of Embodied Research.