Irene Ros is a mother of two, a theatre and performance practitioner and a researcher. She graduated with distiction from the MA Performance Design and Practice at Central Saint Martins (University of the Arts, London) in 2018 and she is now a AHRC-SGSAH funded PhD student with the University of Edinburgh and the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. Her work has always been inspired by politics, gender equality and the media, with a focus on the results of globalisation on people and places. Her practice includes engaging with small communities, and creating the conditions for empowerment. She ran the Italian theatre organisation Ursa Maior between 2002 and 2012, working as artistic director, director and producer, securing support from the National Agency of the EU, Padua University, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Women's Centre of Bologna, Italian Cultural Institute of London. She is the co-founder of the charity Cut Moose, a collaboration dedicated to producing thought-provoking performances that highlight under-represented perspectives on contemporary narratives. Cut Moose’s projects were presented at the Rich Mix, Tête-à-Tête Opera Festival, CSM (Remember Nature Day). In the past year, her moving image works were exhibited by Hope University, Liverpool (Domestic practice in quarantine, curated by Sarah Black); College Art Association Annual Conference (NY, US), curated by Myrel Chernick and Niku Kashef; Centre for the Less good Idea (Johannesburg, South Africa), curated by Bronwyn Lace; Fabrica (Treviso, Italy).