Dr Carla Lever is a Research Fellow on the five-year Mellon-funded project ‘Reimagining Tragedy in Africa and the Global South,’ based in the Department of Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies at the University of Cape Town. With a PhD in Performance Studies from the University of Sydney, her current research focusses on protest, and how performance can create and sustain social change. She has a forthcoming monograph on contemporary South African protest and performance with Amsterdam University Press.