Professor William Huizhu SUN
Vice-President
Shanghai Theatre Academy, China

Prof Sun is a playwright and vice president of Shanghai Theatre Academy. He holds an MA in Literature from Shanghai Theatre Academy (1981) and an MA in Humanities from State University of New York, Buffalo, USA(1985) and a PhD in Performance Studies from New York University (1990). He taught world theatre history, dramatic literature/theory, playwriting, acting, performance studies, etc. at Macalester College, Tufts University in the US, and York University in Toronto, Canada. He taught PhD students since 1993 at Tufts and was resident director. Sun returned to teach in Shanghai in 1999. His major research interests are social performance studies, intercultural theatre and theatre narratology. His research grants include NEH (US) grant and China's national arts research project. His latest publications include The Fourth Wall: Theatre in Construction and Whose Madam Butterfly? Conflicts on Stage and Clash of Civilizations, and he published over 120 Chinese and English papers published in China, USA, Canada, UK, and Singapore. Sun' s various plays such as The Old B Hanging on the Wall, China Dream and Yue opera Hedda Gabler have been staged in China, U.S., Japan, Singapore, and Norway.