We are excited to announce that Yizhou Huang (黄宜舟), Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre at Barnard College, and Chenlin Wei (魏琛琳), Associate Professor in the Chinese Department at Xi'an Jiaotong University, will be joining us this year as the academic mentors for the 2024 Global Youth Sinophone Theater Creative Initiative.
Professor Huang, an expert in modern and contemporary Chinese theatre as well as Asian American theatre, will conduct two workshops at GYACD's Mentor's Academy. Her sessions will explore the concept of performance and the phenomenon of intercultural adaptations.
Professor Wei, who specializes in premodern Chinese drama (Xiqu) from the Ming and Qing dynasties, will discuss the process and "techne" of playwriting in premodern China, with a focus on the 17th century.
Find out more about our academic mentors here.
Learn more about Global Youth Sinophone Theater Creative Initiative, GYACD's annual initiative that supports and celebrates the creative minds of the new generation on the Sinophone stage here.
GYACD's Mentor's Academy will be live on our website at the end of this month. Stay tuned for more details!
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