Kai Tuchmann graduated in directing from Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch in Berlin. He works as a dramaturge, director, and lecturer. As a visiting professor at the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing, he helped develop the curriculum for the BA Dramaturgy program there. Kai has also researched the history of dramaturgy as a Fulbright Scholar at the Graduate Center of the City University New York, and he is a Fellow of the Mellon School of Theatre at Harvard University. In his internationally shown documentary theatre works, Kai has explored the afterlife of the Cultural Revolution in contemporary China, the impact of urbanization on migrant workers in Europe and Asia, and the role of the body in the face of digital technologies. His stagings and dramaturgies were invited, among others, to I Dance Hong Kong, Zürcher Theaterspektakel, Festival d’Automne à Paris, and documenta-institute. His recent publication is the edited volume Postdramatic Dramaturgies-Resonances between Asia and Europe (2022).
Associate Professor Dr. Parichat Jungwiwattanaporn is known for both her academic and artistic roles. Her academic interests include documentary theatre performance, theater for social change, and contemporary performance in Asia. She is a former Fulbright Research Scholar based at the Graduate Center, CUNY (2022), and a recipient of Theatertreffen Program in Berlin (2023). Her publications include three co-authored books and two books on Thai contemporary theater and criticism as well as a number of academic articles. As a theatre artist, she has written, directed, and produced theatre productions both in Thailand and the USA. Her latest productions include For Fury and Passion (2019), The Voyage (2017), Once Upon a Time (2020). At present, she is a lecturer at the Fine and Applied Arts Faculty, Thammasat University, Thailand.
Anuja Ghosalkar is the founder of Drama Queen—a Documentary theatre company, evolving a unique form of theatre in India since 2015. Her practice focuses on personal histories, archival absences, and blurring the hierarchies between audience and performer—to extend the idea of theatre to create audacious work. Iterations around form and process, modes of (social) media, sites, technologies, and reclaiming narratives on gender and intimacy are critical to her performance-making and pedagogy. Her performances and workshops have been programmed by the University of Oxford, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Sophiensale, Serendipity Arts Festival, National Centre for Biological Sciences, and Forum Transregionale –ZMO, among others. As guest faculty at the Srishti Institute of Art, Design, and Technology, she leads practice-based pedagogy. She has written on film and performance for Nang Magazine, Art India, Bioscope, Hakara, and Outlook, and for an edited volume on Performance Making and the Archive for Routledge. She is the 2022 research fellow at the archives of the National Centre for Biological Studies.
