Kari Pederson (she/they) is an award-winning performance creator, academic, and educator based in Tkaronto, Canada. She has over 20 years' experience on stage working in devised theatre, and contemporary dance, and has recently begun working as a movement director for film. They’ve been a core collaborator of Bad New Days’ since 2015. Kari’s current choreographic research, asking how we might understand togetherness and affectual ecologies through a logic of play, pleasure, and reciprocity, will be published in 2025 in About Performance, a peer-reviewed journal with University of Sydney, Australia. She holds an M.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies from York University with a focus on affect, performance, and sound studies, and currently teaches performance at Brock University and Toronto Film School.