Maaike Bleeker is a Professor of Theatre and Performance at Utrecht University and the director of the Research Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICON). She studies the performance of humans and technology, on and off stage. She is also an experienced dramaturg in theatre and dance. In her work, she combines approaches from the arts and performance with insights from philosophy, media theory, and cognitive science. She is the PI of Acting Like a Robot: Theater as Testbed for the Robot Revolution and Dramaturgy for Devices: Developing Sustained Relationships with Robots and Smart Objects, both funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). She is the author of Visuality in the Theatre: The Locus of Looking (Palgrave, 2008) and Doing Dramaturgy: Thinking Through Practice (Palgrave, 2023). She also co-edited the Routledge Companion for Performance and Technology (forthcoming).
