Elizabeth Doud is the Currie-Kohlmann Curator of Performance at The Ringling, where she manages the presentation of provocative time-based art across a range of disciplines. A Florida-based arts professional, scholar and multi-disciplinary theater artist, Doud has over 25 years’ experience as an arts organizer, presenter, generative artist, and educator, with an emphasis on international cultural exchange and climate arts. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Miami and a PhD in Performing Arts from the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. From 2005-2018, Doud led the Performing Americas Program of the National Performance Network and was the Artistic Director of the Cultura del Lobo Series at Miami Dade College from 2009-2011. She created and toured her eco-performance laboratory The Mermaid Tear Factory in Brazil, Cuba, and South Florida during 2015-2018. Among other awards and recognition, she received a Knight Foundation Arts Challenge Grant in 2018 and has twice been an invited Associate Artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts.