Joshua Williams is a writer, director, translator and PhD Candidate in Performance Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His research and creative interests include African theatre and performance, animals and animality on stage, and theatre history / theatre as history. His articles and essays have appeared in Theatre Journal, Theatre Survey, the Johannesburg Salon, ASTR Online, Africa is a Country, Hippocampus, and Blunderbuss. For more information, visit jdmwilliams.com