About Me.

Meghan Moe Beitiks (she/they) works with associations and disassociations of culture/nature/structure. They analyze perceptions of ecology though the lenses of site, history, emotions, and their own body in order to produce work that examines relationships with the non-human. The work emerges as video, performance, installation, writing or photography depending on what arises from their process of research and improvisation.

They received their BA in Theater Arts from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where they studied playwriting, acting, movement and scenic design. They earned their MFA in Performance Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where they studied Bio Art, Social Practice, Environmental Chemistry, and performance methodologies. Upon graduation, they were named the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s recipient for the Edes Foundation Prize for Emerging Artists, a singularly large, competetive prize for artists graduating from Chicago area graduate schools at the time.

They have presented work in California, Chicago, Miami, Brooklyn, Wales, London, Sharjah, Jordan, Latvia, Australia and Russia. They have been a Fulbright Student Fellow in Theater to Latvia, a MacDowell Colony Fellow, an OxBow LeRoy Neiman Fellow, and a Bemis Artist in Residence, and have had their work supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada. Their work has been published in Performance Research, the Routlege Companion on Performance and Science, Performance Philosophy, World Futures, Feral Feminisms, and the Journal for Artistic Research, among other journals. Their book Performing Resilience for Systemic Pain was published by Routledge and praised in The Drama Review, which wrote “Without artistic practices such as Beitiks’, change has less of a chance to stick.” (TDR 68:1 (T261) 2024)

 They are currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre at Concordia University, with a focus on Ecology, Performance, Research Creation and Scenography.

Contact: mobeitiks (at) gmail (dot) com