Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei

(Professor)
Theatre, UCLA

Playwright, director, historian and author Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei brings her expertise on Japanese theatre to the workshop as a presenter. The award winning author of plays including Medea: A Noh Cycle Based on the Greek Myth, and Blood Wine, Blood Wedding, has most recently produced and published a kyôgen-commedia dell'arte fusion The Impostor, based on Tartuffe, through which she explores intercultural images of the body. She is the editor of the Association for Asian Performance Newsletter, and has published articles in publications such as Asian Theater Journal, TDR, Theater Journal, Modern Drama, Contemporary Theater Review, and Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia.

UCLA Theater Faculty Page

Recent Publications, Performances or Presentations

1) Unspeakable Acts: the Avant-garde theatre of Terayama Shuji and Postwar Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2005.
2) "Intercultural Directing: Revitalizing Force or Spiritual Rape?" Staging Difference: Cultural Pluralism in American Theatre and Drama. Ed. Marc Maufort. New York: Peter Lang, 1995. 45-55.
3) "Broken Bodies: Comic Deformity in the Plays of Samuel Beckett, Kyogen, and Contemporary Japanese Theatre." Theatre Intercontinental: Forms, Functions, Correspondences. Ed. Cobi Bordewijk. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1993. 83-100.