María José Contreras Lorenzini is a multidisciplinary artist-scholar whose practice moves across documentary and experimental theatre, site-specific performance and urban intervention, with work presented throughout the Americas and Europe. She is Associate Professor of Theatre at Columbia University's School of the Arts and one of seventy artists featured in The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader (Routledge, 2020) as a leading voice in contemporary performance. Her recent work includes Antigone Adrift, presented at the Centre Pompidou, and The Museum of Unlearning, featured at Vienna Art Week in 2025. She is the author of the forthcoming Viscous Performances: The Persistence of Creative Resistance in Neoliberal Chile (Duke University Press), a study that extends her long-standing inquiry into performance as a site of political and epistemological resistance.