Iris McCloughan is a performance maker, director, and writer in New York. Their original performance work has been seen in New York at The Poetry Project, Ars Nova, The Chocolate Factory, PAGEANT, JACK, Danspace Project, CATCH, and The New Ohio. Recent direction includes Alex Tatarsky’s Sad Boys in Harpy Land (Playwrights Horizons) and Joan Jonas and Eiko Otake’s collaborative performance Drawing in Circles WHY? (Castelli Gallery / Danspace Project). They have collaborated with numerous other artists, including Joan Jonas, Eiko Otake, Alex Tatarsky, Juliana May, Mike Lala, Alex Lin, Angie Pittman, Jessie Young, and Pig Iron Theater Company. Iris is a past winner of the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from American Poetry Review. They are the author of three poetry chapbooks, including triptych (greying ghost, 2022) and Bones to Peaches (Seven Kitchens Press, 2021). Their writing has appeared in American Poetry Review, Prelude, Tupelo Quarterly, juked, jubilat, Gertrude, Denver Quarterly, and Queen Mob’s Teahouse, among many others.
