Contributors

Contributors JAMES R. BRANDON is Professor of Asian Theatre, Department of Theatre and Dance, University of Hawaii at Manoa. Former editor of the Asian Theatre Journal and author of numerous books on theater in Asia. He is currently editing The Cambridge Guide to Asian Theatre and Noh alld Kyogell in rhe Modern World, and conducting research on the uses of Asian tradition in contemporary theatre. YOKO CHIBA studied in Tokyo and Dublin and completed her Ph.D. at the University of Toronto; she currently holds a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Her work has been published in Yeats Annual, and her book on Yeats and Noh is forthcoming from Macmillan. FAYE C. FEI received her Ph.D. from the City University of New York, and has taught at East China Nonnal University and City College of New York. Her plays (coauthored with William Sun) have been seen in Beijing, New York, and Tokyo. Her scholarly writings have appeared in TDR, Theatre Three, etc. She teaches theatre in Los Angeles. KATHY FOLEY is an Associate Professor of Theatre Arts at University of CaliforniaSanta Cruz and Provost of Porter College. She is Southeast Asian editor for Asian Theatre Journal, contributor of the Southeast Asian entries to The Cambridge Guide CO World Theatre (Cambridge, 1989), and, as a Dalang of Sundanese Wayang Golek, has perfonned extensively in the U.S. and Indonesia. CHRISTINE MANGALA FROST was educated in India at the Universities of Delhi and Osmania, and became the frrs! woman to win the Nehru Memorial Trust Scholarship. She has taught literature in the Universities of Cambridge and of Newcastle. New South Wales, and has recently gained an international reputation as a novelist. DAVID GEORGE is Associate Professor of Theatre and Drama Studies at Murdoch University. He has Jived and worked in England, Gennany, California. Malaysia, and Contributors China before moving to Australia. He has previously published full-length studies of Indian Ritual Drama and Balinese Ritual Theatre and is a director of experimental East{Wcsl fusion productions. JOHN K. GILLESPIE has written extensively on the mutual impact ofJapanese and Western theatre. He is co-editor, with Robert T. Rolf, ofAltenzativeJapallese Drama: Ten Plays. Director of the Performing Arts Program at the Japan Society in New York from 1986 to 1989, he is currently an Intercultural Consultant and General Manager of the New York office for the Clarke Consulting Group. MARTHA BANCROFTJOHNSON is Assistant ProfessorofTheatreArts at Augsburg College in Minneapolis. She has worked professionally in the theatre as performer, director, and as artistic director with the 21St Street Players, where she collaborated with the Noh actor Akira Matsui and the poet Robert Bly; she has also taught at the Guthrie Theatre. She is vice-president of the Society for Asian Perfonnance. ADRIAN KJERNANDER is a theatre directorand SeniorLecturer in Drama at the University of Queensland. In [985. with the assistance of a scholarship from the French Ministere des Relations Exterieures, he studied with the Theatre du Soleil while they were rehearsing the production of Norodom Sihallouk. He has written a study of the work of Ariane Mnouchkine for the Cambridge University Press "Directors in Perspective" series, which will appear shortly. COLIN MACKERRAS is Professor at the Key Centre for Asian Languages and Studies, Griffith University, Australia. JAMES S. MOY is Associate Professor ofTheatre and Drama at the University of Wiseonsin -Madison. LEONARD PRONKO is Professor of Theatre at Pomona College, where he has directed Kabuki productions in English for the last twenty-five years. He trained at the Kabuki training program of the National Theatre of Japan and in 1986 received from the Japanese government the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Third Degree. He is the author of Theatre East and West, The World ofJean Anouilh, and Avant-Garde. ROBERT T. ROLF, co-editor of Alternative Japanese Drama: Ten Plays, received his doctorate in Japanese literature from the University of Hawaii. He lives in Tokyo and is currenlly planning a study of playwright/director Ota Shogo. CAROL FISHER SORGENFREI is Associate Professor in the Department of Theater at the University of California at Los Angeles. She is a playwright and director as well as a scholar...