Peta TaitPETA TAIT is an internationally esteemed academic scholar and playwright, and her Currency Press books include: the co-edited Australian Women's Drama and Converging Realities: Feminism in Australian Theatre. Her other recent books include: the co-edted Feminist Ecologies: Changing Environments in the Anthropocene, the authored Fighting Nature: Travelling Menageries, Animal Acts and War Shows, the co-edited The Routledge Circus Studies Reader, the authored Wild and Dangerous Performances, Circus Bodies, and Performing Emotions. Her most recently produced play, Eleanor and Mary Alice, is about Eleanor Roosevelt and Mary Alice Evatt, the Roosevelts and the Australian Evatts, art, war and the UN Declaration of Human Rights. Tait is Professor of Theatre and Drama at La Trobe University, a visiting Professorial Fellow at the University of Wollongong, and in 2013 she was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Read More Read Less