Drama
Education
BA, Wesleyan
MA, Ph.D., Performance Studies NYU
Biography
Areas: Asian theatre and performance theory (traditional and contemporary, with a special expertise in Indonesia), American and European 20th century avant-garde theatre theory, history, and practice. Her recent publications include “Indonesian Theatre and its Double: Putu Wijaya Paints a Theatre of Mental Terror,” in
Performance of the Senses, Eds. Sally Banes and André Lepecki (Routledge 2006) and multiple entries on Southeast Asian theatre in
Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance. Ed. Dennis Kennedy (Oxford University Press, 2003),
The Encyclopedia of Asian Theatre ed. Samuel Leiter (Greenwood Press, 2006), and
Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama eds. Gabrielle Cody and Evert Sprinchorn (Columbia University Press, 2007). She has also published several English translations of Indonesian plays and edited, translated and wrote the introduction to
The Lontar Anthology of Indonesian Drama, Volume III: 1965-2000 (Lontar Foundation, forthcoming). She is a member of Teater Mandiri, based in Jakarta, Indonesia.
