Kathy Foley

Kathy Foley is a distinguished scholar, performer, and director based at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and she has also taught at the University of Hawai‘i, Chulalonkorn University, Yonsei University, and the University of Malaya. A specialist in wayang golek puppetry of Sunda (West Java), she has also published widely on a diverse range of performance forms from all over Southeast Asia as well as India, Tibet, Japan, and Korea. She has written and directed plays and operas and curated exhibitions of masks, puppets, and performing objects and has been the editor of Asian Theatre Journal since 2004.