EVENTS
2024
February
Poster House, New York City, Feb 2
2023
September
2021
December
Hi-ARTS Critical Breaks Virtual Artist Talk
Streamed live and recorded, Dec 15
November
Hi-ARTS Critical Breaks Residency
Kennedy Center Writing Residency
If This Be Sin
March
Guest Lecture: Queering the Canon--in the US and Asia
Brown University TAPS/ Trinity MFA in Acting and Directing
Mar 12
January
Songbook: A Celebration of Broadway's Future
If This Be Sin Musical Excerpts
Lincoln Center, New York City, Jan 25
2020
March
Troy Anthony and Friends, Presented in Association with MTF
"If This Be Sin"
Joe's Pub, New York City, March 1
2019
December
Everybody's Song Making: Do-It-Yourself with and against Artificial Intelligence
Public Lecture, Kanagawa University
Tokyo, Japan, Dec 18
What Makes a Fashionable GAF (Global “Asian” Face): Race, Gender, and Popular Culture
Public Lecture, Meiji University
Tokyo, Japan, Dec 16
November
Conference Working Session, American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR)
Arlington, Virginia, Nov 10
Performing Multiple Publics in Global Asia
Conference Working Session, American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR)
Arlington, Virginia, Nov 10
February
The (Un)Making of a Normative East Asian Face: Yellowface, Plastic Surgery, and Wukongist Casting
Public Lecture, East Asia Colloquium
Gerard House, Brown University, Feb 21
A New Musical with music and lyrics by Sissi Liu, book and additional lyrics by Kirya Traber.
The musical is selected to be workshopped and performed at The 3rd annual JAGfest. It is based on the life of the queer Harlem Renaissance entertainer, Gladys Bentley.
Briggs Opera House, White River Junction, VT, Feb 9
2018
November
Performance and/as Arousal in Global Asia
Conference Working Session, American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR)
University of California, San Diego, Nov 17
August
Wukongism: Monkey King, Kungfu/Jazz, and Asian/American Performance
Doctoral Dissertation Defense
The Graduate Center, City University of New York, August 30
The First Computer-Generated Musical
Conference Presentation, Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)
Boston, MA, August 2
May
Queer Fashion as Dramaturgy: DIY Citizenship and Activism
Curated Roundtable Presentation
Performing Minoritarian and Queer Fashion: Interdisciplinary Interventions
The James Gallery, New York, NY, May 7
2017
November
The "Exotic," Fashionable, Queer Asians: Cosmetic Surgery, Reproduction, and Politics of the Face
Conference Working Session Presentation, American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR)
Atlanta, GA, Nov 19
Field Conversations: Interviewing
Curated Panel, American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR)
Atlanta, GA, Nov 17
August
Festivity for Those Who Don’t Belong: Jerry Herman’s Musical Spectacle in Hello, Dolly! and La Cage aux Folles
Conference Presentation, Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)
Las Vegas, NV, August 4
May
"Popular Avant-garde": Revolutionary Jazz-Influenced Music by Fred Ho and His Peers
Concert and Roundtable
The James Gallery, New York, NY, May 9
Kungfu Dance Theatre
"Approaching Dance" Conference Presentation
The Graduate Center, City University of New York, May 11
April
Wukongist Casting: Resisting Yellowface 2.0
Curated Panel Presentation
Challenging Assumptions in Performance from Show Boat and Miss Saigon to John Cage
The James Gallery, New York, NY, Apr 26
2016
November
Transtemporal Casting
Conference Working Session Presentation, American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR)
Minneapolis, MN, Nov 6
August
(Re)Canonizing ‘American’ Sound, Reinventing Broadway Song Machine: Digital Musicology Futures of Broadway Musicals
Conference Presentation, Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)
Chicago, IL, August 14
Symbolic Yellowface and Triple Castration of the Monkey King: Shanghai Disneyland and Julie Taymor’s Lion King with "Chinese" Characteristics
Conference Presentation, Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)
Chicago, IL, August 13
June
Visualizing Cultural Taste through Broadway Musicals: Digital Musicology and Data Visualization
Conference Presentation, International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR)
Stockholm, Sweden, June 16
April
Yellow Face, All-Asian Show Boat, and the Precarious Boundaries in Casting Practices
Conference Presentation, Association for Asian American Studies
Miami, FL, Apr 30
March
Presentation, New Media Lab
The Graduate Center, City University of New York, March 9
2015
November
Shaolin Kungfu’s Wukongist Transformation at the Lincoln Center Theatre
Conference Presentation, American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR)
Portland, OR. November 5
September
Fred Ho’s Implosive Wukongist Exploration of "Asian American Jazz"
Presentation, Advanced Research Collaborative
The Graduate Center, City University of New York, Sept 25
August
Panel, Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)
Montréal, Canada, August 1
Remembering Li Jinhui: Gewuju and the Formidable Birth of the Modern Chinese Musical Theatre
Conference Presentation, Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)
Montréal, Canada, August 1
July
US and European Critical Perspectives on Musical Theatre
Curation and Interpretation for Dr. David Savran and Dr. Laura Macdonald
Inaugural Lecture Series on Musical Theatre
Shanghai Culture Square, Shanghai, China, July 17
June
Wukongism and Fred Ho’s Jazz Journey
Conference Presentation, Association for Asian Studies
Taipei, Taiwan, June 23
April
Fred Ho’s Asian American Jazz Borderland(s) and the "Journey Beyond the West"
Conference Presentation, Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS)
Chicago/Evanston, IL, April 24
2014
September
Monkey King Performances as Alternative Discourse of Asian Americanness
Presentation, Advanced Research Collaborative
The Graduate Center, City University of New York, Sept 5
July
Dream Confounded: Chinese "Musical Theatre" and Musical Theatre Education in China
Conference Presentation, Association for Theatre in Higher Education
Scottsdale, AZ, July 27
Wukongism
Conference Presentation, Performance Studies International #20: Avant-Garde, Tradition, Community
Shanghai, China, July 5