Amy Cook

Amy Cook is a Professor in English and Associate Dean of Research and Development at Stony Brook University. Cook specializes in the intersection of cognitive science and theatre with particular attention to Shakespeare and contemporary performance. She has written about the work of dreamthinkspeak’s site-responsive work in London, Phyllida Lloyd’s all-female Shakespeare, Target Margin’s Mourning Becomes Electra, The Wooster Group’s Hamlet, Sleep No More, War Horse, and Pig Iron Theatre Company’s Shuteye. She has essays in The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theater (2015) and The Oxford Handbook of 4E Cognition (2018).