Maiya Murphy is a deviser and researcher working at the confluence of performer training, movement, devising, and cognitive approaches to understanding theatre. She is the author of Practice, Research, and Cognition in Devised Performance (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama 2025) and Enacting Lecoq: Movement in Theatre, Cognition, and Life (Palgrave Macmillan 2019). Her work has also appeared in the journals Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, Constructivist Foundations, Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, New Theatre Quarterly, and Theatre Survey. She has contributed to edited collections such as Practice as Research in the Arts (and Beyond): Principles, Processes, Contexts, Achievements (Robin Nelson, writer and ed.), The Routledge Companion to Jacques Lecoq (Mark Evans and Rick Kemp, eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theater (Nadine George-Graves, ed.), and Collective Creation in Contemporary Performance (Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva and Scott Proudfit, eds.). She is an Associate Professor in the Department of English, Linguistics and Theatre Studies at the National University of Singapore, a cofounder of the performance collective Autopoetics, and director of the International Network of Cognition, Theatre, and Performance (INCTP). She is currently a Visiting Researcher at Intercultural Theatre Institute, Singapore.