Jr. Meredith Conti

Meredith Conti is Associate Professor of Theatre at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, and a historian of nineteenth-century performance and popular culture in the United States and Britain. She is the author of Playing Sick: Performances of Illness in the Age of Victorian Medicine (2018) and of published essays exploring the intersections of theatre and medicine, gender and race in the Victorian period, and gun violence in theatre. Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. is Professor of Theatre and director of the MFA program at Loyola Marymount University. He is the author, editor and co-editor of over two dozen books, including Post-9/11 Horror in American Cinema (2012), Eaters of the Dead: A Cultural History of Cannibal Monsters (2021), the Bram Stoker Award-nominated The Streaming of Hill House (2020), and numerous articles on horror theatre.