Liu - Routledge Handbook of Asian Theatre

Syed Jamil Ahmed is a theatre practitioner and professor at the Department of Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. His research interest is in South Asian theatre, applied theatre, folklore and cultural studies. His book-length publications include Reading Against the Orientalist Grain: Performance and Politics Entwined with a Buddhist Strain (2008) and Applied Theatricks: Essays in Refusal (2013).

Ty Bamla is an actor, choreographer and director based in Los Angeles and New York City. He graduated with an MFA in Theatre from Naropa University at Boulder, Colorado. Taik is the artistic director of the Blacksheep Collective and his work is in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress, Washington, DC under the Asian-American Archive (https://ye-taik.squarespace.com/about-ba/).

Monica Bethe is Director of Medieval Japanese Studies Institute in Kyoto, a Noh and textile researcher and a university professor. Textile publications cover Japanese kosode (Japan Society, Los Angeles County Museum), Noh costumes (Rhode Island School of Design, Chicago Art Institute and Los Angeles County Museum) and Japanese priests robes (Kyoto National Museum).

Michael Bodden is Professor of Indonesian/Malay and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Victoria, Canada. He is the author of Resistance on the National Stage: Theater and politics in Late New Order Indonesia (2010). He also edited the Lontar Anthology of Modern Indonesian Drama, Volume 2: Building A National Theater (2010) and translated several plays included therein.

Alexandra Bonds is Professor Emerita of Costume Design at the University of Oregon. An internationally recognized costume designer, she is the author of Beijing Opera Costumes: The Visual Communication of Character and Culture . Her book is the most extensive study of jingju costumes in English, covering both theory and practice.

Shelby Kar-yan Chan is Associate Professor at the School of Translation of Hang Seng Management College in Hong Kong. She obtained her doctorate from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Her monograph Identity and Theatre Translation in Hong Kong was published in 2015. She is also interested in cinematic adaptation and interpreting.

Khuon Chanreaksmey has been with the Cambodian arts NGO Phare Ponleu Selpak Association for 11 years and now serves as the deputy director of its performing arts school.

Fan-Ting Cheng is an Assistant Professor of Graduate Institute of Taiwan Literature at National Taiwan University. She works on contemporary performances related to queer issue, national identification, and social protest. Her recent publications include Local Theater and Dreg Aesthetic: The Taiwanese Queerness of Trainer Ensembles Belle Reprieve and Protesting Self-Reflexive Theatricality: The Cyclops Troups The Rose Colored Country in the Journal of Theater Studies.

Katherine Hui-ling Chou is Professor of English at National Central University in Taiwan, project director of NCUs Performance Center and coordinator of ETI, and playwright/director of Creative Society Theatre Troupe. Her recent research focus is performing arts in creative industry, and cultural economy. She is the author of Performing China: Actresses, Visual Politics and Performance Culture, 1910s1945 (2004).

Matthew Isaac Cohen is Professor of International Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London. Born in the United States and trained in Indonesia in puppetry arts, his books include The Komedie Stamboel: Popular Theater in Colonial Indonesia, 18911903 (2006) and Performing Otherness: Java and Bali on International Stages, 19051952 (2010).

Margaret Coldiron is Deputy Head of BA in World Performance at East 15 Acting School, University of Essex. A specialist in Asian performance and masks, she is the author of Trance and Transformation of the Actor in Japanese Noh and Balinese Masked Dance Drama (2004). Current research includes work on performance pedagogy and Balinese Gambuh court dance-drama.

Jan Creutzenberg is a doctoral candidate at Freie Universitt Berlin. He conducts field research in Seoul on contemporary perfomances of the traditional singing-storytelling art pansori and has published on modern theatre in Korea particularly on intercultural interpretations of Shakespeare and Brecht in pansori and modern theatre in Korea. His blog seoulstages. wordpress.com presents his thoughts on theatre, music and art in Korea.

Carol C. Davis is Associate Professor of Theatre at Franklin & Marshall College and Founding Artistic Director of Nepal Health Project, which treks plays to Nepali villages, teaches in Kathmandu orphanages and sponsors girls education. Carol holds a PhD from University of California, Berkeley, and has published in Asian Theatre Journal and in Mapping South Asia Through Theatre (2014).

Kanchuka Dharmasiri is a theatre director and translator. She is currently teaching postcolonial and Sri Lankan theatre, performance theory and alternative theatre in the Fine Arts Department at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. She completed her PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Dharmasiris interdisciplinary research interests include postcolonial studies, translation studies and early Buddhist womens writing.

Aparna Dharwadker is Professor of English and Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies at the University of Wisconsin Madison, and author of Theatres of Independence: Drama, Theory, and Urban Performance in India Since 1947 (2005), which won the 2006 Joe A. Callaway Prize. Her recent projects include an edited collection of primary sources in modern Indian theatre theory, and a study of modernist theatre in India.

Xing Fan is Assistant Professor in Asian Theatre and Performance Studies at the Centre for Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include theatre and politics in the Peoples Republic of China, Chinese dramatic literature, performance and aesthetics in Asian theatre and intercultural collaborations.