Margaret Laurena Kemp is an actor, multi-disciplinary performing artist, writer, and teaching artist. She is an associate professor of theatre and dance at the University of California, Davis, and has been a guest artist at several institutions both in this country and abroad. Her research explores authorship and spatial politics through performance. As a solo actor, Kemp has toured her work in Australia, South Africa, and the United States. She has won worldwide praise for her starring role in the film Children of God. Her visual work has been shown in solo and group shows in the United States and the Bahamas. In 2019, Kemp was awarded a Lucas Art Residency at the Montalvo Arts Center; and in 2017, she received a Headlands Residency. She is also a recipient of the Michael Chekhov Artist Scholar Award and the 2019 Voice and Speech Trainers Association Featured Artist Award. Her production of The Bluest Eye was recently honored with multiple Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Awards. Kemp is a faculty member of the Michael Chekhov Association and a designated Fitzmaurice Voicework Lead Teacher.