Matthew Randle-Bent

Matthew Randle-Bent (he/him) is a scholar, artist, and educator. He is Associate Director of the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum at University of Illinois Chicago. His research focuses on international progressive arts institution building during the twentieth century. He attended his local state school in Gloucestershire, rural England, before an undergraduate degree at the University of Warwick; a Master’s at Queen Mary, University of London; and, after moving to the United States in 2016, a PhD from Northwestern University. Randle-Bent has worked across the arts and higher education in Chicago: with DePaul University, Loyola University Chicago, Northwestern University Press, Court Theatre and Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, among others. In 2022, he was an Artist in Residence at The Watermill Center. His writing has been published in Contemporary Theatre Review, Theatre Journal, Arab Stages, and caa.reviews.