Alys Daroy

Dr Alys Daroy works in the ecological arts and environmental humanities. She has published in Performance Research, Stanislavski Studies, RiDE and Sustainability, amongst others, and has two recent books, Shakespeare, Ecology and Adaptation (Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2025, with Paul Prescott) and Sydney’s Food Landscapes: Agriculture, Planning, Sustainability (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025, with Joshua Zeunert). Alongside past performance work (UK National Theatre Ian Charleson Award Commendation), her recent practice-as-research creative projects have been featured at the Venice Biennale, FORM Gallery and have been listed in Australia’s Culture for Climate Report. Alys is Academic Chair of Theatre and Creative Production at Murdoch University, Boorloo/Perth and has a PhD from Monash and Warwick Universities. She is an External Researcher at the Centre for People, Place and Planet (ECU) and an Affiliate Researcher at Gloknos, the Global Centre for Knowledge Studies (Cambridge). Her current work is examining creative communication to address biodiversity extinction.