Brittney S. Harris is an internationally recognized Assistant Professor of Applied Theatre in the College of Art and Architecture at Virginia Tech. With over a decade of experience in Applied Theatre, focusing on Race and Performance, Performance as Activism, and Devised Community-Engaged Theatre, her PaR (performance as research) work examines how narrative-based storytelling can be a means for social resilience and redemption enables individuals or community organizations to create art representing a transformative journey toward revelation and resistance.

Her community engagement-based theatre projects and workshops have been featured at several national interdisciplinary conferences and fringe festivals, including the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference (ATHE), KCACTF Region IV, American Alliance of Theatre Education (AATE), National Women's Theatre Festival, and Black Theatre Network.

Brittney holds a Master of Fine Arts in Acting with an emphasis in Cultural Enrichment from the University of Georgia.