BOARD MEMBER

Rande Gail Brown
The director of East West Communications, a company that specializes in cultural programming between the United States and Asia, most notably Japan. She has a degree in Japanese language and literature from Princeton University, and has translated numerous books on Eastern and Buddhist philosophy into English. Rande is a founding board member of Tricycle; the Buddhist Review and president of the Amitabha Foundation

John K. Gillespie
A cross-cultural business consultant in New York City, Dr. Gillespie has written extensively on modern Japanese theatre and culture, including Alternative Japanese Drama: Ten Plays (University of Hawaii Press, 1992), Japan: A Literary Overview (Council on National Literatures, 1993), A Bilingual Handbook on Japanese Culture (Natsume-sha, 2004), “Moment(um) of Memory: Metapatterns in Japanese Theatre Since the 1960s,” in Modern Japanese Drama and Performance (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), and edited the Modern Japanese Theatre section in the Encyclopedia of Asian Theatre (Greenwood Press, 2006). Dr. Gillespie earned his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Culture from Indiana University. He has worked as Director of the Japan Film Center and Performing Arts Program at Japan Society in New York. 

 

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ADVISORY BOARD

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