Katelyn Hale Wood is a performance studies scholar and theatre historian whose research engages the intersections of critical race and queer theory, gender studies, comedic performance, and sound studies. She is the author of Cracking Up: Black Feminist Comedy in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries United States  (University of Iowa Press, 2021).  She is currently working on her next book project, Sonic Intimacies: Listening to Queer Archives. Wood’s writing has also been published in Performance Matters, Theatre Topics, QED: A Journal in GLTBQ Worldmaking, Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, and the Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance.