Margaret Laurena Kemp is an actor, a multidisciplinary performing artist, writer, director and teaching artist, whose research explores authorship and spatial politics through performance. Her performances, films and performances have been. commissioned, presented and installed at Montalvo Arts Center (2022) Women Made Gallery, Chicago (2020), Elaine Jacobs Gallery Detroit (2019). She is a Professor of Theatre and Dance at the University of California, Davis.