Cory Tamler is a writer, dramaturg, and interdisciplinary artist. Her ongoing artistic research with Alex Viteri develops and applies water dramaturgies to performance, teaching, and writing, currently in the context of the Helenesee, a sinking lake in Brandenburg. Since 2019, Cory co-creates with In Kinship Collective, making work with rivers in Wabanaki/Maine alongside human and nonhuman, Native and settler collaborators following the tradition of Native guiding. She has created and participated in research-based performance projects in the United States, Germany, and Serbia, and has worked with museums and companies including Mobile Academy Berlin, Studio KG, the New Museum for Contemporary Art, The Civilians, James Gallery, Sprat Artistic Ensemble, Yinzerspielen, and the School of Making Thinking. Her book A Permanent Parliament: Notes on Social Choreography, an experiment in writing (from) with(in) Michael Kliën's Parliament, was published in 2022 by Segal Center Publications/The Laboratory for Social Choreography.