Dr. Matt Smith, Reader in Applied Theatre and Puppetry, University of Portsmouth, UK. Smith has thirty years experience, working in diverse settings such as schools, prisons, with environmental agencies, arts for health, youth arts, disability arts groups and with the homeless. Smith’s practice is interdisciplinary mixing drama, puppetry, masks, and junk music. Publications include (2015) The Practice of Applied Puppetry: Antecedents and Tropes, (2016) Thinking Through the Puppet inside Immigration Detention and (2018) Hand to Hand: The Dynamic Situation of Applied Puppetry.