Fiona Templeton is an experimental director, playwright, poet and performer.^[1][2] Born in Scotland in 1951, she co-founded London's Theatre of Mistakes in the 1970s and lived for many years in the East Village of Manhattan. Her performance work includes the pioneering urban theatrical journey, You-The City. She has received the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award (2002); and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, the Asian Cultural Council, and a Senior Judith E. Wilson Fellowship at Cambridge. She is founder and Artistic Director of The Relationship.^[3]

The Relationship

The Relationship, founded in 2000, is a performance art group and nonprofit based in both New York, New York and London.^[4] The Relationship is known for taking an innovative approach to language and for exploring the relationship between the audience and performers.^[5] The group is well known for its production of "The Medead", a monumental performance work most recently performed in collaboration with Samita Sinha at Roulette Brooklyn in New York.^[6]

The Relationship also directs the Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Playwrights, established in 2012 in memory of experimental poet and publisher Leslie Scalapino.^[7]