International Health Humanities Network Membership

Sarah A. Senff is an artist-eduator-advocate whose work revolves around issues of illness, disability, and resilience. She is a PhD Candidate and Fellow in Theatre & Performance Studies at the University of Missouri with a graduate minor in health advocacy. Her dissertation is "The Performance of Healing: An Autoethnography of Dis/ease and Care in Activist Performance." She has an MA in Theatre from Miami University and holds graduate certificates in Community Processes, in Grantsmanship, and in Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies. 

She specializes in applied theatre, using performance methods as therapeutic/ educational/ advocacy tools. She blends Theatre of the Oppressed, psychodrama, storytelling, community-based theatre, and performance ethnography among other applied methods to ensure that her work has specific benefits to those involved. 

Sarah also serves as Associate Director of the Center for Applied Theatre and Drama Research, Managing Director of the Troubling Violence Performance Project, and Development Officer of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education’s Women and Theatre Program.