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Dr. Daphne Lei

University of California, Irvine
Professor of Drama

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Daphne Lei is Professor of Drama, at the University of California, Irvine. She is internationally known for her work on Chinese opera, intercultural theatre, and diasporic and transnational performance. She is the author of many scholarly articles and three books: Operatic China: Staging Chinese Identity across the Pacific (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), Alternative Chinese Opera in the Age of Globalization: Performing Zero(Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), and Uncrossing the Borders: Performing Chinese in Gendered (Trans)Nationalism (University of Michigan Press, 2019). She has a forthcoming co-edited anthology with Charlotte McIvor, The Methuen Companion to Interculturalism and Performance (London: Bloomsbury).

Dr. Lei is known for her advocacy for diversity, equity, and multiculturalism through performance. She is the founder and director of “Multicultural Spring,” a program that promotes multicultural performance since 2007, andthe founding director of Theatre Woks, a theatre group that cultivates Asian American talent and promotes diversity (2015 to present).

Dr. Lei is the former president of American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR, 2015-2018).