November 25, 2019 – Hong Kong University: I am lecturing to Hong Kong locals about cross-cultural communication in the midst of a 6 month and ongoing protest movement that has gripped the city. The significance of discussing culture in this environment is not lost on me. Despite the tear gas, the protests, the clashes between citizens and law enforcement, the culture of Hong Kong is shining.
In 2014, I had the pleasure of participating in a cultural performing arts exchange in Bali as part of the East15 Acting School Directing MFA program. As a working director for many years prior to my MFA, to say that my time in Bali influenced my practice would be an understatement.
In 1712 Joseph Addison, founder of English daily newspaper ‘The Spectator’, wrote the following:
“There is no question but our great-grandchildren will be very curious to know the reason why their forefathers used to sit together like an audience of foreigners in their own country, and to hear whole plays acted before them in a tongue which they did not understand.”
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