Performance

Meiling Cheng

Dramaturg, Professor of Dramatic Arts in Theatre Critical Studies at the USC School of Dramatic Arts
Meiling Cheng was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Temporal Shifts Symposium at the Arts Research Center on February 1, 2013. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Meiling Cheng is professor of dramatic arts in theatre critical studies at the USC School of Dramatic Arts.

Born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan, Dr. Cheng came to this country in 1986 to study at the Yale University School of Drama, where she received her MFA degree in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism in 1989 and DFA degree in Theatre Arts in 1993....

Sue-Ellen Case

Professor and Chair of Critical Studies in the Theatre Department in the School of Theater Film and Television at UCLA
Sue-Ellen Case was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Re-staging / Re-construction / Re-enactment Symposium at the Arts Research Center on August 13, 2012. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Professor Sue-Ellen Case, a past editor of Theatre Journal, has published widely in the fields of German theater, feminism and theater, performance theory and lesbian critical theory. She has published more than 40 articles in journals such as Theatre Journal, Modern Drama, Differences and...

Linda Brumbach

Creative Producer
Linda Brumbach was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Re-staging / Re-construction / Re-enactment Symposium at the Arts Research Center on August 13, 2012. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Linda Brumbach is an independent creative producer based in New York City working across mediums of performance, installation, and film. She founded her company Pomegranate Arts in 1998 to center her practice around both helping to realize an artist’s vision and supporting ambitious provocative work that often falls outside of...

Naomi Bragin

Dancer, Artist, Writer, Scholar
Naomi Bragin was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2015 – she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Naomi Bragin is a dancer, writer, wanderer, wonderer—collaborating with other artists to heal and recreate worlds.

Black Power of Hip Hop Dance: On Kinethic Politics, her current writing project, tells stories of streetdances created by youth living in California during the 1970s Funk & Disco eras, whose...

Shane Boyle

ARC Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies at Queen Mary University, London
Shane was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2009 – he was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Shane Boyle began working in the Theatre and Performance Department at Queen Mary, University of London after completing his PhD in Performance Studies at UC Berkeley and his BA in English at Duke University. Before moving to London, Boyle held postdoctoral appointments at Stanford University and Harvard University.

Boyle's research focuses on the political economy of performance from...

Kevin Bott

Community-Based Theater Artist, Scholar
Kevin Bott was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Cross Sector Conference on April 28, 2016. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Kevin Bott is a community-based theater artist and scholar whose interests lie at the intersection of healing, freedom, justice, and movement-building, as well as in the mutually supportive relationship between individual excellence and collective creation. Bott is the founder and artistic director of Ritual4Return, which he began developing in 2008. His 2010 doctoral dissertation is...

Jonah Bokaer

Choreographer, Media Artist
Jonah Bokaer was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Making Time: Art Across Gallery, Screen and Stage Screening at the Arts Research Center on April 20, 2012. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website. Jonah Bokaer has cultivated a new form of Choreography merged with Visual Art & Design. American & Middle Eastern, he has deeply interwoven an international...

Lisa Bielawa

Composer, Producer, and Performer
Lisa Bielawa was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Re-staging / Re-construction / Re-enactment Symposium at the Arts Research Center on August 13, 2012. Return to ARC Artist Directory/Archive

Composer, producer, and vocalist Lisa Bielawa is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow and a Rome Prize winner in Musical Composition, who takes inspiration for her work from literary sources and close artistic collaborations. She is the recipient...

Sven Åge Birkeland

Artistic & Managing Director of Norway's BIT Teatergarasjen
Sven Åge Birkeland was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Nordic Time Zones Conference at the Arts Research Center on March 26, 2014. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Sven Åge Birkeland was the artistic and managing director of Norway's oldest and most prestigious international theatre, BIT Teatergarasjen, the dance biennial Oktoberdans and the theatre biennial Meteor. In addition, he was sought after as a curator and advisor for programs of festivals and venues, within Norway as well as internationally. In that...

Sima Belmar

ARC Fellow and Continuing Lecturer in TDPS at UC Berkeley
Sima Belmar was an ARC Fellow in 2012 – she was chosen in the graduate and faculty category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Sima Belmar earned her Ph.D. in Performance Studies from TDPS in 2015, and holds an M.F.A. in Dance from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Her scholarly writing has been published in The Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices, Performance Matters, L'avventura, and the Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies (2016). Sima was a dance critic for the San Francisco Bay...