Lori Delaney is a Scotland‑based theatre maker, performance artist, and researcher with 18 years of professional practice experience facilitating drama workshops across educational and professional settings. She has recently completed a practice‑based SGSAH/AHRC‑funded PhD at the University of Glasgow, where her research uses participatory methods to explore how theatre can disrupt normative breast cancer discourse by representing the complexities of lived experience.

Her work raises awareness of disruptive narratives through autobiographical performance practices, engaging people with lived experience of cancer to co‑create creative outputs and collaboratively develop new theatre performances. This includes an installation exploring the embodied experience of chemotherapy treatment, as well as a post‑verbatim play that represents the diverse realities of individuals with lived experience of breast cancer.