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Claudia La Rocco Claudia La Rocco (editor in chief) is the author of The Best Most Useless Dress (Badlands Unlimited); selected poetry, performance texts, images and criticism; and the novel petit cadeau, published by the Chocolate Factory Theater as a print edition of one and a four-day, interdisciplinary live edition. She edited I Don't Poem: An Anthology of Painters (Off the Park Press) and Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets, the catalog for Danspace Project's PLATFORM 2015, which she curated. July, the debut album from animals & giraffes – her duo with musician- composer Phillip Greenlief – has just been released by Edgetone Records. She is an Artforum contributor, was a critic and reporter for The New York Times for many years and is now editor in chief of the arts and culture platform Open Space for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. David DeWitt Dena Beard Teresa Fiore Caitlin Donohue Jennifer Krasinski David DeWitt (managing editor) spent almost 20 years as an editor at The New York Times, including many years working on its Arts desk handling articles in dance, theater, music and other forms. He also wrote film, theater and television reviews for the paper. David has master's degrees in English and acting and is a member of SAG-AFTRA and Equity. Caitlin Donohue is a cultural journalist from San Francisco who for three years has been based in Mexico City, where she works with the queer event curation collective Traición. She was culture editor of the San Francisco Bay Guardian, co-founder of 4U Magazine and a staff writer at Tavi Gevinson's Rookie. Her work has appeared in iD, High Times, The Advocate, Remezcla, Pitchfork Review, Marie Claire, Vice and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's Open Space. Before Caitlin was assigned the essay on Leonora Carrington for Peak Performances, that dead artist appeared in her life several times. She lives blocks away from Carrington's house in Mexico. Jennifer Krasinski is an art columnist for The Village Voice and the recipient of a 2013 Creative Capital / Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. She is also a contributing editor to Yale University's Theater magazine. Dena Beard is executive director of the Lab in San Francisco. She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and was assistant curator at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Her work at the Lab centers on using the exhibition and performance space as a platform to investigate systems of perception in abstract and everyday experience. She has organized exhibitions and projects with Dora García, Ellen Fullman, Fritzia Irízar, Jacqueline Gordon, Brontez Purnell, Constance Hockaday, D-L Alvarez, Wadada Leo Smith, Lutz Bacher, Norma Jeane, Anna Halprin, Barry McGee, Silke Otto-Knapp and Apichatpong Weerasethakul, among others. Teresa Fiore is the Theresa and Lawrence R. Inserra Chair in Italian and Italian-American Studies at Montclair State University. She is the author of Pre-Occupied Spaces: Remapping Italy's Transnational Migrations and Colonial Legacies (Fordham University Press, 2017) and the editor of the 2006 issue of Quaderni del '900 on John Fante. Her numerous articles on Italian-American culture, migration to-from Italy, Sicilian culture and 20th-century Italian literature and cinema have appeared in Italian, English and Spanish in journals and edited collections. She coordinates a regular program of cultural events and educational initiatives on campus, through which she has also presented performances, workshops and talks linked to Italian theater: montclair.edu/inserra Contributors 68 www.peakperfs.org Claudia La Rocco. Photo by Jose Carlos Teixeira. David DeWitt. Photo by Kristin Hoebermann. Dena Beard. Photo by Mark Mahaney. Caitlin Donohue. Photo provided. Teresa Fiore. Photo by Mike Peters/Montclair State University. Jennifer Krasinski. Photo by Sarah Trigg.

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