Publications

My review of Jin Jiang's publication,Women Playing Men: Yue Opera and Social Change in 20th Century Shanghai, will be published in the Spring 2010 issue ofAsian Theatre Journal.

My review of Min Tian's publication,The Poetics of Difference and Displacement, will be published this fall in theAsian Theatre Journal.


Conference Presentations

From 19-23 March 2010, over 80 Brecht scholars will arrive in Honolulu for the 13th Symposium for the International Brecht Society, Brecht in/and Asia. In addition to numerous research presentations, there will be four keynote lectures by renowned artists/scholars Ong Keng Sen, Hans-Theis Lehmann, Haiping Yan, and Richard Schechner. The Honolulu Brecht Theatre Festival will accompany the conference.


I will present "The I in You: Alienation in Gao Xingjian's Nocturnal Wanderer" at the Symposium of the International Brecht Society. Exact times and locations of my talk will be posted at a later date.

I am also the Conference Media Coordinator/Designer and have built the conference website and designed all marketing materials.


Artistic Productions

September 12, 13, 18, 19, 2009
I will direct Gao Xingjian's Nocturnal Wanderer as part of the Late Night Theatre Series at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. The performance will be held in the Earl Ernst Lab Theatre each night at 11pm, except for the Late Night Series "matinee" performance at 8pm on Sunday, September 13.

Review in Honolulu Advertiser on 9/16/2009
Review in Star Bulletin on 9/15/2009
Listing in Honolulu Advertiser on 9/12/2009
Article in Star Bulletin on 9/11/2009
University of Hawaii System announcement on 9/11/2009
Honolulu Weekly Hot Pick on 9/09/2009

About

Ronald Gilliam is currently a Doctoral student in Asian Theatre at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and a Graduate Degree Fellow of the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. He previously received his MA from the department of Performance Studies at New York University and his BA in Theatre and Chinese Language from Butler University. His current academic research examines identity expressed through performance in Chinese Central Asia. He is also interested in the politics and commodification of touring culture as performance, performativity in popular culture, and the rise of media culture.