Iris McCloughan

Iris McCloughan is a performance maker, writer, and director in New York City. Their practice spans text, performance, and image-making to explore the queer body, its physical and discursive constructions, and its expansive potential. Their original performance work has been presented in New York City (Danspace Project, JACK, Ars Nova, The Poetry Project), Philadelphia (The Barnes Foundation, ICA Philadelphia, FringeArts), and Detroit (Public Pool). Recent direction includes Alex Tatarsky’s Sad Boys in Harpy Land (Playwrights Horizons) and Joan Jonas and Eiko Otake’s Drawing in Circles WHY? (Danspace Project/Castelli Gallery). McCloughan was awarded the 2018 Stanley Kunitz Prize from American Poetry Review. Their writing has appeared in Tupelo Quarterly, BOMB, jubilat, Denver Quarterly, Gertrude, and many others. They are the author of three chapbooks, including Triptych (greying ghost, 2022). They have been awarded residencies through the Chocolate Factory Theater, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, JACK/BEAM Center, ACRE, and the Downtown Brooklyn Alliance.