Alice Sheppard trained with Kitty Lunn and first performed with Infinity Dance Theater before going on to become a core company member with AXIS Dance Company. Her choreography has been commissioned by CRIPSiE, Full Radius Dance, and MOMENTA Dance Company. Sheppard is the Artistic Director of Kinetic Light, a project-based ensemble, working at the intersections of disability, dance, design, identity, and technology to create transformative art and advance the intersectional disability arts movement. A USA Fellow, Creative Capital grantee, and Bessie Award winner, she creates movement that engages intersectional disability arts, culture, and history, challenging conventional understandings of disabled and dancing bodies. Sheppard's writing has appeared in The New York Times and Catalyst.