Tawny Andersen is a scholar and practitioner of performance philosophy. She recently completed a Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada postdoctoral fellowship at the Centre for Performance Philosophy at the University of Surrey and the Department of Humanities at Kingston University. She works as a sessional instructor at the University of Calgary and OCAD University, where she teaches courses in critical theory and contemporary art theory. Tawny holds a PhD in art history from McGill University and a master's degree in theatre studies from the Université Libre de Bruxelles. As a contemporary dancer, she has performed in the works of Jan Fabre, Meg Stuart, Kris Verdonck, and others. Some of her recent publications appear in: Performance Philosophy; Performance Research; Culture, Theory and Critique; Machine Made Silence: The Art of Kris Verdonck; The Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy. In September 2022, Tawny takes up a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, where she carries out the project PERFORM: Performativity as Curatorial and Artistic Praxis.