Dorinne Kondo is an anthropologist, performance-studies scholar, playwright, dramaturg, and professor of American studies and ethnicity and anthropology at the University of Southern California. She is an award-winning author of three books, including Worldmaking: Race, Performance, and the Work of Creativity (Duke University Press, 2018). Kondo is currently working on her fourth play, and served as a dramaturg on three world premieres of theater artist Anna Deavere Smith. At USC, she is a co-organizer of the “Creativity, Theory, Politics” research cluster, which seeks to mobilize the power of the arts to move people politically, intellectually, and affectively.
