Dr. Peter Duffy is a professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of South Carolina. There he heads the Master of Arts in Teaching program in theatre education working with graduate students studying to become drama teachers. He teaches courses in applied theatre, arts-based research, dramatic literature for youth, creative drama, methods of teaching drama, children’s theatre and co-facilitates arts-based research with pre-service teachers. He uses theatre engagements with schools as a means to activate student learning within communities to create dialogue around issues of concern to them. Previous to USC, Peter was the Director of Education and Community Outreach at the Irondale Ensemble in Brooklyn, NY. There he led professional developments with teaching artists and classroom teachers on drama as pedagogy and performance assessments. Additionally, Peter taught middle and high school German, English and Drama for a decade in Maine and New Jersey. He also has worked as an actor/teacher in New York City schools. He is the author of several articles and book chapters and co-edited the books, Youth and Theatre of the Oppressed (Palgrave, 2010), A Reflective Practitioner’s Guide to (mis)Adventures in Drama Education – or – What was I Thinking? (Intellect, 2015), and Drama Based Research: Provocations of Practice (Brill, 2019). His forthcoming edited book, Devising in Times of Crisis, will be out in early 2024. He speaks nationally and internationally about drama education; arts-based research; cognition, learning and education; applied theatre; schools and schooling; and devising and playmaking.