Lois Weaver is a Guggenheim-winning artist, activist, writer, director, and Professor of Contemporary at Queen Mary University of London.
Career
Weaver came to London to take on the role of artistic director for Gay Sweatshop Theatre Company in the early 1990s. Born in Roanoke, Virginia she lives between New York and London. Weaver developed the Long Table as an experimental open public forum as part of the Restock, Rethink, Reflect series of events at the Live Art Development Agency, Hackney Wick, London.
Politics
Her work centres on feminism, human rights and possibilites for public participation.
Membership
Active for over four decades she is the founding member of significant New York theatre companies Spiderwoman (1976), Split Britches (1980) and WOW (Women"s One World Cafe) (1980).