Carl Lavery is Professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Glasgow. He has published numerous essays and books on theatre, performance, and ecology, including Rethinking the Theatre of the Absurd: Ecology, Environment and the Greening of the Modern Stage (2015), Performance and Ecology: What Can Theatre Do (2017) and An Idea of a Theatre Ecology (2024). He is currently working on two new books, Getting a Taste for Landscape Through Performance: Politics and Ecology and Constellations of the Anthropocene.