GENesis Academic Panels
Karen Shimakawa: “Performative Crossings in Asian North American Theater”
Chair: Nina Lee Aquino
11:30 AM: Academic Panel: Staging Asian Canadian Subjectivities
Christine Kim, “Performing Asian Canadian Intimacy”
Chris Lee, “Staging Asian Canada”
Don Goellnicht, “Kai-dai: Staging Queer Subjectivity in Winston Christopher Kam’s
Bachelor Man”
Chair: Elaine Chang
2:30 PM: Academic Panel: Asian-Canadian Theatre Companies
Dongshin Chang, “Performing Traditions and Diasporic Efforts: In the Examples of the Kunqu Society and Little Pear Garden”
Thy Phu, “Sketching Subversion: Asiansploitation and the Appropriation of Improv”
Ric Knowles, “The CBT Collective: Towards a Filipino Canadian Dramaturgy”
Chair: Daphne Lei
WEDNESDAY, MAY 5
10:00 AM: Academic Panel: Asian Regions?
Moira Day, “Two-Gun Cohen: Celebrating the Chinese-Jewish Connection in Riversdale, Saskatoon”
Anne Nothof, “Footprints in the Cement: Asian Imprints at Concrete Theatre”
Sean Metzger, “Le Regissement du Lion: Mapping Memory in Chinese Street Theatre”
Chair: Christine Kim
2:30 PM: Academic Panel: Plays & Playwrights I
Jenna Rodgers, “Negotiating Multiculturalism as Geopathic Space in Betty Quan’s Mother Tongue”
Shelley Scott, “Asian Canadian Women Playwrights: The Ties that Bind”
Eleanor Ty, “The Past as Affect in Catherine Hernandez’s Singkil”
Chair: Chris Lee
THURSDAY. MAY 6
10:00 AM: Academic Panel: Plays & Playwrights II
Esther Kim Lee, “Contemporary Korean Canadian Plays, Audiences, and Communities”
Parie Leung, “Ang Sarap Sarap!: Tracing the Prop of Cuisine in Miss Orient(ed), Novena, and A Taste of Empire”
Siyuan Liu, “Pangaea Art’s CUMBERLAND, an Original Chinese Canadian Intercultural Production”
Chair: Thy Phy
FRIDAY, MAY 7
10:00 AM: Academic Panel: Professional Concerns: Training, Casting, Dramaturgy
Marie Barlizo, “Training the Asian Canadian Playwright”
Andrew Cheng, “My Story/Your Story: Finding Truth in ‘Non-Traditional’ Casting”
Judith Rudakoff, “newGEN playwrights: the next GENeration”
Chair: Siyuan Liu
12:00 PM: Academic Panel: Diaspora and Transnationalism
Daphne Lei, “Homeland under Attack: Negotiating Diaspora, Transnationalism, and Globalization in Asian American Theatre”
Haiping Yan, “Differential Identification: the Figure of Asian Diaspora in Theory and Performance”
Xiaoping Li, “Performing Asian Canadian: the Theatrical Dimension of A Grassroots Activism”
Chair: Esther Kim Lee
2:30 PM: Concluding Roundtable
Leon Aureus, Elaine Chang, Bobby del Rio, William Lau, Valerie Sing Turner, Nadine Villasin, Eleanor Ty
Chair: Karen Shimakawa