Maggie Bridger is a sick and disabled dance artist and scholar interested in reimagining pain through the creative process. Maggie is a 2022 City of Chicago Individual Artist Program grantee and has held artist residencies through High Concept Labs, the Chicago Cultural Center's Learning Lab, Synapse Arts, the University of Chicago, and Chicago Dancemakers Forum. Most recently, she premiered a new version of her ongoing work, Radiate, as part of The Steppenwolf’s LookOut series. She is a co-founder of the community-run Inclusive Dance Workshop Series and a founding member of Unfolding Disability Futures, a local collective of disabled performing artists..

Maggie is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Disability and Human Development. Her writing has been published in the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, Le Sociographe and the Journal of Cultural and Literary Disability Studies. She is a lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Chicago, Membership Manager for the Dance Studies Association and serves on the organizing committee for the Chicago Dance Studies Working Group. Learn more about Maggie at www.maggiebridger.com.