Lindsay B. Cummings is an assistant professor at the University of Connecticut, where she teaches script analysis, dramaturgy, and courses on theater for social change, documentary theater, and Latina/o theater. Her research focuses on dialogue and affect in political performance and theater for social change. Her book, Empathy as Dialogue in Theatre and Performance, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2016. Other published work can be found in the journal Performance Research and in The Theatre of Naomi Wallace: Embodied Dialogues (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). Cummings is also a dramaturg. Her dramaturgic credits include Band of the Black Hand and The Curious Case of Phineas Gage (both with Split Knuckle Theatre), The Bourgeois Gentleman (Cornell University), and Leaving Queens (Portland Stage Company). She received her PhD from Cornell University.