Rachel Bowditch
Artistic Director, Vessel and Professor of Theatreat School of Music, Dance, and Theatre, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, Arizona State UniversityRachel Bowditch, PhD (Artistic Director of Vessel) has specialized in creating original devised, immersive, site-specific, and physical theatre for over two decades that tackles challenging social issues from suicide, addiction, mental health, indigenous forced relocation, the death penalty, and now climate change and sustainability. Her artistic and scholarly work has been presented nationally and internationally. In June 2022, Bowditch was invited by Leonardo to present a work-in-progress of Anthropocene at the Espronceda Gallery at the International Symposium for Electronic Arts (ISEA) in Barcelona, Spain. She is a Professor of Theatre in the School of Music, Dance, and Theatre in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University. For more about her work visit: https://vesselproject.org/
and https://rachelbowditch.com/