Projects

The Digital Access Research Project (DARP) focuses on the future of the performing arts and the social and technological challenges brought on by the pandemic, concentrating on the digital accessibility of performing arts events and the codification of streaming as part of the disability laws in the US and globally.  The objective of the group is to develop a set of guidelines for policy- and lawmakers, and performing arts organizations that would balance the digital accessibility needs of formerly marginalized groups with the performer and institutional copyright rights.  

TheTheatreTimes.com is an award-winning, non-partisan, global theatre portal. Since its launch in November 2016, TheTheatreTimes.com has published over 5,500 articles covering theatre in 90 countries and regions. With 32 thematic sections, more than 150 Regional Managing Editors, and over 60 international media partners, it has grown to be the most far-reaching and comprehensive global theatre portal today.

• 2025 Webby Honoree in the Cultural Website Category
• 2025 The MUSE Creative Awards Silver Winner in the Digital Publication Category
• 2024 ATHE-ASTR Award for Excellence in Digital Scholarship from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education and American Society for Theatre Research
• 2018 Elliott Hayes Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dramaturgy

International Online Theatre Festival (IOTF ) is a yearly, free event streaming international theatre shows. IOTF presents works by international theatre artists and companies, serving as a platform for encounters between international theatre and audiences. From 2019 to 2023, IOTF showcased 140 shows from 36 countries, including the work of acclaimed companies and theatres such as Complicité, Frantic Assembly, the Grand Teatre del Liceu, and Berlin’s Schaubühne.

• 2021 Culture Online International Award for “Best Online Project” (2nd place) Chosen from 452 projects submitted from more than 20 countries.

Transmedia Arts Seminar at the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard considers the intersection of contemporary art/theatre and new media technologies, taking up immersive, multisite, and networked modes of transmedia storytelling, performances instrumentalizing a range of live and digital platforms and formats, including social media, augmented and virtual reality, haptic and digital technology, visual and audio mapping, human/AI interaction, algorithms, and bodily and sensory enhancements.

Performap.com is an interactive digital map of global theatre and performance festivals funded through Yale Digital Humanities Lab and LMDA Innovation Grant. With hundreds of festivals browsable and searchable by festival location, type, and date, Performap is the first extensive digital index of its kind in the field, built expressly for artists, audiences, critics, scholars, festival organizers, curators, and presenters from around the world. Performap also includes reports written by local writers and traveling reporters published by The Theatre Times. 

Future Stage is an international initiative at metaLAB (at) Harvard broadly concerned with the future of the performing arts: with the needs and possibilities for media, culture, and presence in a hyperconnected world; the civic stakes of the performing arts today; emergent modes and genres of performance and organization; the architecture of future performance spaces; and the future professions that will animate those performance venues. Future Stage published A Manifesto for the Future Stage which has been translated into twelve languages.