Colleen Lanki

(Adjunct Professor)
Asian Studies, UBC

Colleen Lanki is a theatre artist based in Vancouver, Canada. She has a BFA in Theatre Performance from York University in Toronto, an MFA in Asian Theatre/Directing from the University of Hawaii, and has worked internationally as a professional actor, director and choreographer. She lived in Tokyo for over 6 years studying noh and nihon buyoh, teaching movement at a professional acting school, and working with various Japanese theatre companies. She also founded her own theatre group, Kee Company, which produced four collectively-created, multilingual pieces and toured to Australia and Canada. In addition, she is the Artistic Producer of Rhizome Productions. Prof. Lanki is currently teaching Asian Theatre and experimental performance at the University of British Columbia, and is working on creating interdisciplinary dance-theatre performances integrating traditional and contemporary forms. 

Recent Publications, Performances or Presentations

1) Performer/creator/choreographer. The Komachi Variations. Rhizome Productions Firehall Theatre, Vancouver/Theatre X, Tokyo. Jan.-Sept. 2006.
2) Instructor/co-director. The Water Station. Great Northern Way Campus, Vancouver B.C. Nov. 2005.
3) "MORAL: A play by Kisaragi Koharu." Asian Theatre Journal. 21.2. (2004 Fall): 119-76. (co-translator + introduction + directed the English language premiere in October 2003)

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