Marcela I. Oteíza is a visual artist, scenic designer and scholar. She specializes in collaborative and non-text-based work, such as Wes out Loud, 2016, created and directed by Prof. Oteíza. Her video-documentary: Santiago (en) vivo, based on street performances, was screened at the Centro Cultural Palacio de la Moneda as part of the selection of the Teatro Internacional Santiago a Mil, 2018. She collaborates with the Judy Dworin Performance Project (JDPP), for which she has completed several scenic and media designs, such as  ColorFields, commissioned by the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation at the New Britain Museum of American Art. Her articles in Street Performance-Scenography have been published in the series Scenography Expanded: An Introduction to Contemporary Performance Design, edited by Joslin Mckinney and Scott Palmer, Bloomsbury Academic, 2017, and in Theatre and Performance Design Magazine, Routledge, 2018. She participates in the International Federation of Theatre Research (IFTR) Architecture and scenography working groups, with projects such as Feminist Scenographies 2022 and Performing Rage: A Rapist in Your Path Feminist Scenic Barricade, a Public Space Intervention by Las Tesis Collective, 2019, and at the PQ Symposium Where are we? 2022 with the object tells the truth: Baquedano’s statue as a witness for social change at Plaza Dignidad, Santiago, Chile. PQ talks include Street Performance Contemporary Objects Project: The Self and the Automaton. She is currently an Associate Professor at Wesleyan University in the Dance and Theater departments, the College of the Environment and Latin American Studies Program, in addition to the Integrated Design, Engineering, and Applied Sciences (IDEAS) program. Prof. Oteíza holds an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and a BFA in fine arts from the University of Chile.