The Methuen Drama Handbook of Interculturalism and Performance

Daphne P. Lei is Professor of Drama at the University of California, Irvine, USA. She is internationally known for her work on Chinese opera, Asian American theatre, intercultural theatre, and diasporic and transnational performance. She is the author of many scholarly articles, both in English and Chinese. She has published two books: Operatic China: Staging Chinese Identity across the Pacific (2006) and Alternative Chinese Opera in the Age of Globalization: Performing Zero (2011), and her articles can be seen in many scholarly journals. She is the president of American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR, 2015-2018).

Charlotte McIvor is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies at NUI Galway, Ireland. She is the author of Migration and Performance in Contemporary Ireland: Towards A New Interculturalism (2016), and the co-editor of Staging Intercultural Ireland: Plays and Practitioner Perspectives (with Matthew Spangler, 2014) and Devised Performance in Irish Theatre: Histories and Contemporary Practice (with Siobhán O’Gorman, 2015).