(Asian) Dramaturgs’ Network: Sensing, Complexity, Tracing and Doing

Peter Eckersall teaches in the PhD Program in Theatre and Performance at the Graduate Centre, City University of New York, and is an Honorary Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne. Eckersall holds a PhD in Japanese Studies and an MA in Asian Studies from Monash University, Australia. His research interests include Japanese performance, dramaturgy and theatre and politics. Recent publications include Okada Toshiki and Japanese Theatre (Editor with Barbara Geilhorn, Andreas Regelsberger, Cody Poulton, 2021), and Curating Dramaturgies (Editor with Bertie Ferdman, 2021). He is currently a member of the research team Towards an Australian Ecological Theatre (Australian Research Council 2021-23). He is dramaturg and cofounder of the Melbourne based performance group Not Yet It’s Difficult.

Daniel Teo is a freelance creative who writes, shoots photos and videos, and designs. He previously worked as a researcher, archivist and documenter at theatre development space Centre 42 for seven years, where he oversaw the development of a Singapore theatre digital archive, and documented theatre-makers and their creation journeys. He has also been an on-and-off theatre critic and arts writer, writing about theatre and the performing arts for publications such as ArtsEquator and Esplanade’s Offstage. danteohb.com

Chong Gua Khee is a performance-maker, director, dramaturg, and facilitator. Across her work, she seeks to create and hold intimate, playful and porous spaces for bodies to encounter each other. Gua Khee is committed to CITRUS practices, a loose working group she co-founded in 2021, that hopes to deepen conversations around better practices in the arts. Other recent projects include directing dance theatre piece Before You Go (2022), co-directing Tactility Studies: Where Our Lost Things Live (2022) at the National Gallery of Singapore for the Children’s Biennale, and co-curating residency platform Arts-Business x Business-Arts (ABxBA) Residencies (2021-ongoing). guakhee.com

Nah Dominic is currently a PhD candidate at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where he is examining student responses to ethically oriented Literature pedagogies in Singapore schools. He previously served as Company Dramaturg of The Second Breakfast Company, having worked on restaging early Singapore theatre plays including The Singapore Trilogy (2021) and The Moon is Less Bright (2018). He has worked with ADN as a rapporteur for several events, including ADN Lab 2018 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Ugoran Prasad is a fictionist, dramaturg, and performance scholar. An Artistic Associate of Garasi Performance Institute, Yogyakarta, he has participated in and developed some of the institute’s main works and programmes since the early 2000s. Initiating and co-chairing Majelis Dramaturgi, a dramaturgs’ knowledge exchange network since 2017, he currently leads Akademi AntarRagam, a deschooling programme based on expanded dramaturgy and social practice. He is a PhD candidate in Theater and Performance at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.