Cheryl Robson
Australian-born, Cheryl worked at the BBC in London for several years then
developed and produced new writing for theatre before working as an editor and
publishing over 200 writers, winning numerous awards. As a playwright, she won
the Croydon Warehouse International Playwriting Competition, was longlisted for
the Bruntwood Prize and has had several stage plays produced. Her co-translation
of David's Story by Stig Dalager was shortlisted for the Marsh Award for Children's
Literature in Translation and her co-edited book Silent Women:Pioneers of Cinema
(Supernova) was voted best book on silent film in 2017. As a director, her film Rock
'n' Roll Island won four awards at US film festivals and was nominated at Raindance
London. She initiated Sight/Unseen a conference on Asian Drama to coincide with
the launch of this collection at Goldsmiths and Tara Arts in London.
Amanda Rogers
Associate Professor in Human Geography and the Geohumanities at Swansea
University, her research focuses on Asian American, British East Asian and South
East Asian theatres. Her book Performing Asian Transnationalisms: theatre,
identity and the geographies of performance (Routledge, 2015) examines the
geographical interconnections between these three spheres of creative practice.
She has published peer-reviewed articles in journals, including Progress in
Human Geography, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Cultural
Geographies, Social and Cultural Geography, The Journal of Intercultural Studies
and Contemporary Theatre Review, the latter being a co-edited special issue on the
Royal Shakespeare Company's 2012-2013 production of The Orphan of Zhao.
Ashley Thorpe
Senior Lecturer in Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London. Books include
Performing China on the London Stage: Chinese opera and global power, 1759-2008
(Palgrave, 2016) and The Role of the Chou ("clown") in Traditional Chinese Drama:
comedy, criticism and cosmology on the Chinese stage (Edwin Mellen Press, 2007).
He is co-editor of the book Contesting British Chinese Culture (Palgrave, 2018) and
has published peer-reviewed articles in journals, including in Asian Theatre Journal,
Studies in Theatre & Performance, Theatre Dance and Performance Training, TRI,
TDR, and Contemporary Theatre Review, the latter being a co-edited special issue
on the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2012-2013 production of The Orphan of Zhao.
He has directed the annual Noh Training Project UK since 2011, and has written and
performed in his own English-language Noh play, Emily, based on Emily Wilding
Davison, the suffragette killed at the Epsom Derby in 1913.
