Allie Marotta (she/her) is an arts educator, scholar, and participatory theatre maker. Allie is a current doctoral student at The Graduate Center, CUNY Ph.D. Theatre and Performance program, and her scholarly work investigates the cross-section of cognitive science and theatre, specifically looking at spectatorship and immersive and participatory theatre. She is the NYC Curator for No Proscenium and a founding creator of experiential theatre company You&I. She currently serves as the Arts in Education Coordinator for School Partnerships at Brooklyn Arts Council. Allie has worked extensively in arts education, teaching theatre, dance, and music for various organizations throughout NYC and New Jersey, as well as currently teaching at Hunter College. Allie has presented original work at NYC venues Teatro SEA, FringeNYC, Theater for the New City, Dixon Place, Theatre Row, and HERE Arts Center, and internationally in Ecuador, Greece, Argentina, and throughout the U.K. Allie was most recently published in Pandemic Play: Community in Performance, Gaming, and the Arts (“Mixed Media Encounters: Finding the Future of Immersive Work Through the Pandemic,” Palgrave Macmillian, 2024). www.allie-marotta.com