Congratulations to Esther Kim Lee and ATDS President Donatella Galella for their inclusion in the new PBS Artbound Documentary East West Players: A Home on Stage. “East West Players theatre company has been a home for Asian American artists such as George Takei, John Cho, Daniel Dae Kim, James Hong and many others featured in this documentary. […]

ATDS Winners at ASTRCongratulations to ATDS officers and members for winning awards and fellowships from the American Society for Theatre Research!Collaborative Research Award – Vivian Appler and Christiana Molldrem Harkulich for their project “Waiting for Lady Phoenix: An Annotation of ‘A Piece of Play’ by Margaret CavendishResearch Fellowship – Samuel Yates for completion of “‘Mend […]

ATDS Memember Alexis Riley was recently selected for the President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Michigan. Below is an excerpt from the press release, but you can find the full press release here. As a PPFP fellow, her archival research will examine how disabled people at Oregon State Hospital in the postwar era mobilized dance […]

Mark Cosdon directed a Broadway Musical Revue with students at Sicily’s University of Palermo.  He continues as Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at Allegheny College and as managing director of the college’s Playshop Theatre.  This past February, Cosdon directed Proof in the Playshop Theatre and in September 2021 Cosdon remounted Bikeman, Peabody-winning journalist Tom Flynn’s rumination on September […]