Izzy Levy is an independent researcher and educator in Classics, with MAs in Classics (2023) and Latin (2020) from Columbia University and a BA in Classics (2017) from Smith College. Their research brings together queer theoretical and performance-based methodologies to approach Classical literature and its receptions. They have written and presented on the reception of Classical drama and mythology in drag performance, embodied spectatorship in Senecan tragedy, and queer philologies in Sappho and Ovid. Izzy is also a drag king and loves to incorporate Classical reception into their solo and collaborative performances. In 2023, they co-directed the Barnard-Columbia Ancient Drama Group's Helenephoria: A Tragicomic Cabaret (a drag-inflected composite of Euripides' Helen and Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae) and, in 2024, they co-produced Ancient Queerstories: New Stages for Old Tales (a showcase of queer performance work engaging with ancient worlds) with Queer and the Classical.