Sarah Bay-Cheng [pronounced Bay-JUNG, “j” as in jump; rhymes with “sung”] is Dean of the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design and Professor of Theatre & Performance Studies at York University in Toronto, Canada. Her research focuses on the intersections of media and performance, including four books, most recently Performance and Media: Taxonomies for a Changing Field (2015), and more than 75 articles, essays and reviews. A former Fulbright Scholar in Media and Cultural Studies at Utrecht University (Netherlands), her current research focuses on data in cultural arts policy and history. Creatively, she has worked in intermedial collaborations and has a fondness for puppetry.