VANCOUVER: No Foreigners: Staging the Present-Future and Past - Dr. Eury Colin Chang

About the presenter:Eury Colin Chang is a Vancouver-born theatre artist and scholar living on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam Nations. His forthcoming doctoral dissertation entitled "A History of Asian Canadian Theatre, 1971-2021" is the first book-length study to trace the last fifty years of Asian Canadian theatre. Over the past twenty years, Eury has worked as a professional arts writer and Editor of Ricepaper magazine (Asian Canadian Writers Workshop) and independent dramaturge/director and general/tour manager in the performing arts. His recent jury work includes the BC Arts Council (Publishing), the New Script Jury for the Jessie Richardson Awards, and Board of Director (BC Representative) for the Canadian Association for Theatre Research. His work has been published in anthologies by Playwrights Canada Press, Arsenal Pulp Press, University of Wisconsin Press, and in journals such as Theatre Research in Canada, and Canadian Theatre Review.