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EVENTS

 

2024

February

Songs from If This Be Sin

Poster House, NeYork City, Feb 2

2023

September 

The Retirement Song 

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

Global Asian Designers Dress Women of the US Presidential Families: Fashion Designturgy and Its Publics

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

If This Be Sin

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

Visualizing Broadway Musicals

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 

This is How It All Went Down: Remembering and Questing the Inception of Modern Musical Theatre in (Post)Colonial Asias

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

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