Dr Alys Daroy is a practitioner and researcher in the environmental humanities and creative arts. Books include Shakespeare, Ecology and Adaptation (co-authored with Paul Prescott for Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2025) and Sydney’s Food Landscapes: Agriculture, Planning, Sustainability (with Joshua Zeunert for Palgrave Macmillan, 2025). She has published in Stanislavski Studies, Performance Research, RiDE and others and contributed chapters to Critical Approaches to the Australian Blue Humanities (Routledge, 2024) and Woke Shakespeare (Birmingham Academic, 2024). Alys has acted as Sustainability Consultant at Shakespeare’s Globe and was featured as one of thirteen sustainable performance leaders in Australia’s national Culture for Climate Report (2023). She is Academic Chair of Theatre and Creative Production at Murdoch University on Whadjuk Noongar Country, Western Australia and an Affiliate Researcher at multidisciplinary research centre Gloknos: The Centre for Global Knowledge Systems established at the University of Cambridge CRASSH by Professor Innana Hamati-Ataya.  Creative works include “Anthropoiesis” at the ECC Time, Space, Existence exhibition at the Venice Biennial for the Venice Biennale, "Botanica Lumina: Twelfth Night" for Shakespeare South and the Botanic Garden and State Herbarium of South Australia and "Opus Beethoven", with the Australian Piano Quartet for Phoenix Arts. Current projects include exploring creative research methods to explore the slow violence of extractive agricultural systems (working with Scientia Associate Professor Joshua Zeunert’s counter-image digital archive Food|Landscapes|Australia) and reframing narratives of villainy in threatened indigenous carnivorous plant species of south-western Australia with botanist Dr Laura Skates (UWA). She is Founder of Australia's first eco-Shakespeare company, Shakespeare South and has a PhD from the University of Warwick, UK and Monash University, AU. She has been selected to create an ecoperformance work in collaboration with the Conservatorio di Verona “Evaristo Felice Dall’Abaco” and Maestro Zandonà for the World Shakespeare Congress 2026. Alys is a regular speaker at international conferences. Research interests include harnessing biophilic design and affective ecoscenography to strengthen connections to biodiverse environments.  As a former actor, Alys worked in the UK and Australia in stage, screen and voiceover. Royal National Theatre and Sunday Times Ian Charleson Award Commendation (Yelena, Chekhov's The Wood Demon). Selected reviews: "Five stars: A stand out performance by Alys Daroy"—Time Out London; "Alys Daroy, in the title role of Emma Bovary, delivers a performance of pellucid beauty ... Miraculously drawing one into her innermost desires and vulnerability, this intricate, intimate, magnetic performance is a revelation, and lives on in the memory. She even draws humour, born of the anomalies of Bovary's own personality, which pours from Daroy's insight" —Chicago Critic; "Absolutely riveting ... the seeds of her eventual madness showed themselves in early decisions made. From her first entrance to her last, there was not a moment missed ... the most convincing Ophelia I have ever seen"—Andrew Muir, Shakespeare in Cambridge; "From her performance as Anna Karenina, Alys Daroy is obviously destined to be one of the leading stage actresses of her generation"—Sky TV, Take 101; "Alys Daroy is gutsy and passionate ... a stand out as Margarita in Bulgakov's masterpiece"—Camden Journal; "Alys Daroy is a fabulous Queen, utterly plausible in her ambition" —Chris Boyd, Melbourne Arts, The Australian; "Alys Daroy slithered, simpered and snarled about the stage like a nasty femme fatale akin to the prowess of Cate Blanchett. Her Queen combined regal pomposity with visceral nastiness, demonstrating adroit acting talent, Her career trajectory should be one to monitor: I found her mesmerising. Her work was intelligent and commanding." —Toorak Times. Alys now works in theatre as a director, scenographer and dramaturg specialising in ecoperformance.