PRODUCER

Yining Cao (Vivian) is a NYC-based, Chinese-born creative producer and performing arts manager. She has worked across commercial theater, performing arts institutions, and international stages. Her previous experiences include working at Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York City Center, Baryshnikov Arts, Thompson Turner Productions, Broadway & Beyond Theatricals, SMG Live, and more. She is the Producing Associate at Yangtze Repertory Theatre of America. MFA in Theatre Management & Producing, Columbia University.

ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGER

Hui Peng is a PhD candidate in Theatre and Performance at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her research explores disability studies, audience studies, and dramaturgy. Hui is the interim convenor of the Performance and Disability Working Group at IFTR. Her writing has appeared in PAJ, Theatre Journal, and The Journal of American Drama and Theatre.

DOCUMENTER/STAFF

Chloe Lee is a researcher/practitioner based in Seoul/New York, currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Theatre and Performance at CUNY Graduate Center. She explores how technological objects communicate with bodies on stage and looks at the moments when memories are fragmented and repeated, focusing on contemporary East Asian performance.

DOCUMENTER/STAFF

Esther Neff is the founder of PPL, a performance philosophy thinktank making “operas of operations” across the US and around the world since 2009. Neff is currently a SPCUNY faculty Fellow, a PhD student, and organizing year’s department conference “AS PER SOME FORM" for October 24-25 at the Graduate Center.

DOCUMENTER/STAFF

Juhyun Woo is a Ph.D. student, lecturer and theatre maker based in New York and Seoul, South Korea. She holds a BA degree in Theatre Directing and an MA degree in Performance Studies and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Theatre and Performance at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research interest includes the ritualization of medical practices on marginalized bodies.

DOCUMENTER/STAFF

Melissa Flower-Gladney is a Level II PhD student in Theatre and Performance at CUNY. Her research interests center around movement, biopolitics, and radical pedagogies. Her publications include “Field Notes from the SITI Summer Workshop” published in TDR this year and a chapter in (M)other Perspectives. Currently, she is a student/collaborator in Yoshiko Chuma’s School of Hard Knocks.

DOCUMENTER/STAFF

Zhixuan (Mia) Zhu is a PhD student in Theatre and Performance at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her research interests include theatre and performance translation, puppetry and performing objects, performance and digital media, and site-specific and participatory performance.