Ananda Breed

Ananda Breed is professor in theatre at the University of Lincoln. She is author of Performing the Nation: Genocide, Justice, Reconciliation (2014) and co-editor of Performance and Civic Engagement (2017) in addition to several publications that address transitional systems of governance and the arts. She has worked as a consultant for IREX and UNICEF in Kyrgyzstan on issues concerning conflict prevention and conducted applied arts workshops in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Indonesia, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, Palestine, Rwanda and Turkey. Breed was founder and co-director of the Centre for Performing Arts Development (CPAD) at UEL and former research fellow at the International Research Centre Interweaving Performance Cultures at Freie Universität (2013–14).