Areas of Special Interest and Training:
Directing and acting; traditional Asian theater and performance; Asian American theater; ancient Greek performance; contemporary women’s theater.
Recent Shows Directed at Augsburg:
Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl
Life is a Dream (La vida es sueño) by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, translated and adapted by Nilo Cruz (area premiere)
Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen, translated by Rolf Fjelde
Illusion by Pierre Corneille, freely adapted by Tony Kushner
Blood Wedding, by Federico Garcia Lorca, a new version by Ted Hughes
Artistic Work Outside Augsburg (selected):
Co-founder and Core Group Member, Mu Performing Arts
Playwright, Dipped in Love, produced by Mu Performing Arts at the Mixed Blood Theater, New Directions Festival, 2007; and the Minnesota Fringe Festival, 2008
Associate Director, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, directed by Rick Shiomi, Mu Performing Arts, at the Southern Theater, 2006
Co-creator and performer, Floating Mothers, at the Playwrights’ Center, 2002
Co-creator and director, The Hand that Holds the String, produced by Mu Performing Arts, Southern Theater, 1997
Director, choreographer, co-creator, Triangles, Out-There Series, produced by Walker Art Center and the Southern Theater, 1993
Vice-President, Association for Asian Performance, 1990 – 1993
Publications:
“Reflections of Inner Life: Masks and Masked Acting in Ancient Greek Tragedy and Japanese Noh Drama,” Modern Drama, 35, May, 1992 (Special East-West Issue)
Co-editor, Association for Asian Performance (AAP) Newsletter, 1987 – 1993
Department Activities:
Chair, Theatre Arts Department, 2004 – 2005
Chair of Speech/Communication and Theatre Arts Department and Theatre Arts Program Director, 1997 – 2004
Degree Area and Thesis/Dissertation Title:
Theater and Drama with a Minor in Art History and Classics
Dissertation title: The Mask in Ancient Greek Tragedy: A Reexamination Based on the Principles and Practices of the Noh Theatre of Japan
Current Research Interests:
Stage direction and dramaturgy; the creation and performance of new theatre works; playwriting; cross-cultural explorations of the traditional theatres of Asia; Asian American theatre; reexaminations of ancient Greek plays and performance; women’s theatre.
Education
- B.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison
- M.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison
Areas of Teaching
- Stage Direction
- Theatre History and Criticism I and II
- Introduction to Asian and Asian American Theater
- Creative Drama: Acting and
- Improvisation