Suhaila Meera

Suhaila Meera is a director, dramaturg, and Ph.D. candidate in Stanford's Theater and Performance Studies, also pursuing Ph.D. minors in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her dissertation, Playing Children: Statelessness and the Performance of Childhood, traces the planetary stakes of mass displacement through the figure of the child refugee, with an emphasis on South Asia and the Middle East. Her writing has appeared in Performance Research, Studies in South Asian Film & Media, and is forthcoming in Women's Studies.