Kevin DiPirro is a writer, theater-maker, and deviser who teaches at Stanford University. His performance works have been produced in New York, Minneapolis, San Francisco, and at Stanford. These include: Through Shite to Shannon; Big Fun; An Ache in the Engine; Mobl’d Queens’s Good; Rennaisance Play(ge); Hadleyburg; Feeld Play; and The Underworld. A graduate of Swarthmore, Berkeley, and SF State, he has been a Hewlett Fellow for American Theatre magazine and has published digital scholarship in CCC. With his devised work, Kevin uses immersive participatory live story engagements to create space for those in complex communities for re-experiencing the story—and themselves--as relational, reciprocal, and co-creative beings. What stories might we tell communally with our own bodies and on this earth, that, to paraphrase Haraway, destabilize our own habituated stories and retell them as other, more expansive, ones? How might human practices of food, music, storytelling, role-playing, movement, and ritual be incorporated in live performance to activate such tellings, re-memberings, and re-tellings? Kevin’s most recent interests include exploring healing at the intersections of these lively arts—writing, gardening, cooking, swimming, and hiking--locally. Kevin has two college-age kids and lives on the coast in Pacifica, CA.