Amna Farooqi received her PhD in Theatre History and Performance Studies from the University of Washington (2026). Her research focuses on immersive minoritarian performances that expose racial and colonial logics through frameworks of transnationalism and empire. She has presented her research at conferences including the Association for the Study of Arts of the Present (ASAP), Mid-America Theatre Conference (MATC), the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR), and Performance Studies international (PSi). In 2024, Farooqi received ASTR’s Helen Krich Chinoy Dissertation Fellowship. Prior to graduate school, Farooqi worked in arts administration at organizations including New York Theatre Workshop, Creative Artists Agency (CAA), and William Morris Endeavor (WME). She holds a BA from NYU Gallatin and an MA in Performance Studies from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.