Katelyn Hale Wood is a performance studies scholar and theater historian whose research engages the intersections of critical race and queer theory, gender studies, and 20th/21st century comedic performance in the United States. Her work has been published in Theatre Topics, QED: A Journal in GLTBQ Worldmaking, and Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, and has also been supported by the American Society for Theatre Research and the National Center for Institutional Diversity.