Ananda Breed is Professor of Theatre at the University of Lincoln and Principal Investigator of AHRC GCRF Network Plus project Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP): Informing the National Curriculum and Youth Policy for Peacebuilding in Kyrgyzstan, Rwanda, Indonesia and Nepal and GCRF Newton Fund project Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) at Home: online psychosocial support through the arts in Rwanda. She is the author of Performing the Nation: Genocide, Justice and Reconciliation (Seagull Books, 2014), co-editor of Performance and Civic Engagement (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), co-editor of Creating Culture in (Post) Socialist Central Asia, and co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance (Volume 1 & Volume 2). Ananda is a former research fellow of the International Research Centre Interweaving Performance Cultures at Freie Universität (2013-2014).