Asif Majid

Asif Majid is a theatre maker, educator, researcher, and consultant whose work scripts, stages, and traces local and global nodes of history, power, performance, race, and (de)coloniality, particularly through devising community-based participatory theatre, attending to the intersection of Islam and performance, and making improvisational music. Currently, he is Assistant Professor of Theatre and Human Rights at the University of Connecticut, where he is also Affiliate Faculty in Anthropology; Asian and Asian American Studies; Interdisciplinary Indigeneity, Race, Ethnicity, and Politics; and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Asif's work has been funded by the Asian Cultural Council, the Fulbright Scholar Program, the Social Science Research Council, The Wallace Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, The Mellon Foundation, the Open Society Foundation, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, and the Association of Performing Arts Presenters. He maintains an active consulting practice on issues of racial justice, power sharing, arts administration, and organizational capacity and structure, all through an applied theatre and social justice lens. Asif's performance credits include work with The Kennedy Center (US), the Royal Exchange Theatre (UK), Convergence Theatre (US), Unity Theatre and Action Transport Theatre (UK), and Theatre Prometheus (US). His book, Making Muslimness: Race, Religion, and Performance in Contemporary Manchester, is forthcoming with Routledge in 2025. He can be found online at www.asifmajid.com.