Reagan Venturi (she/her) is a Ph.D. student researching the connections between theatre, education, and identity formation within classrooms as performance spaces. She is also interested in what it means to recontextualize the canon of dramatic literature taught within these courses, aiming to hold space for plays that better reflect the identities present in today’s theatre classrooms. She is a dramaturg who specializes in new play development and is a director and actor. At Mizzou, she teaches THEA 1400: Acting for Non-Majors and is a TA for Script Analysis.