Kristen Holfeuer is a PhD candidate in NYU Tisch's Performance Studies program. With a broader research interest in the ways in which disability and Indigenous performances reconfigure relationships to space and labor, Holfeuer's dissertation, "Performances of Exertion in Indigenous Art and Activism", considers the relational connections derived and maintained through the act of producing art. Her article on beadwork as a form of inoculation, “Crafting inoculation: the Indigenous futurity of Ruth Cuthand’s beadwork” was recently published Performance Research Journal and her publication “Access intimacy and disability aesthetics in I Wanna Be With You Everywhere” can be found in Women&Performance Journal.
Alongside her work as a scholar, Holfeuer maintains her theatrical practice which includes dynamic physical vocabularies, political and social satire, and is concerned with themes of friendship, devotion, and ecological justice. She was a 2023 EmergNYC fellow and her work has appeared at La Mama, Dixon Place, Great Canadian Theatre Company, and Gordon Tootoosis Nīkānīwin Theatre.