Marcus Tan is Associate Professor of Drama at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University Singapore. His publications include Acoustic Interculturalism: Listening to Performance (2012), Performing Southeast Asia: Performance, Politics and the Contemporary (2020), Music Theater and Politics: Restaging Histories, Decentering Perspectives (2026) and Devising in Times of Crisis: Practices for a Post-Pandemic World (2026). He has also published in TDR, Theatre Research International, Performance Research and Contemporary Theatre Review. Apart from his research interests in theatre acoustemology, intercultural theatre and virtual performativities, Marcus is the Assistant Editor of Theatre Research International and the Secretary-General (Communications) of the International Federation for Theatre Research.