劳拉·克雷斯利博士（她/她）是一位美国自由戏剧评论家、制作人和教育工作者，最初在美国和英国接受演员和导演方面的训练，自 2006 年起定居伦敦。2024 年，她在皇家中央演讲与戏剧学院完成了关于嵌入式批评和戏剧构作的博士学位，目前在该学院担任多门课程的讲师。她还在 ROM 戏剧艺术学院教授表演课程以及如何培养批判性思维。此前的学术出版物包括与人合编并为《污秽笔记：摩根·劳埃德·马尔科姆〈埃米莉亚〉的伴读》一书撰稿，以及发表在《平台期刊》上的《边缘地带的无偿和低薪劳动：以“橙色天空剧院”为例》。 Dr Laura Kressly (she/her) is an American freelance dramaturg, critic, producer, and pedagogue who originally trained as an actor and director in the US and UK, and she's been based in London since 2006. In 2024, she completed her PhD on embedded criticism and dramaturgy at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, where she works as a lecturer across several courses. She also teaches Acting and how to develop a critical practice at ROM Theatre Arts, a musical theatre drama school. Previous academic publications include co-editing and contributing to Notelets of Filth: a companion reader to Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s Emilia and ‘Unpaid and Low-paid Labour on the Fringe: a look at Orange Skies Theatre’ published in Platform Journal.