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

Carol Martin, Ph.D.
Carol Martin is a professor of Drama at Tisch School of the Arts, NYU. Currently, she is working on a book on contemporary American documentary theatre. Other books include: Dance Marathons: Performing American Culture of the 1920s and 1930s; Brecht Sourcebook; and A Sourcebook of Feminist Theatre: On and Beyond the Stage. Martin's essays and interviews artists have appeared in journals and anthologies, including the New York Times, and have been translated in French, Polish, Chinese, and Italian. She has lectured on theatre and performance all over the world including Singapore, Shanghai, Japan. Martin has appeared as an academic specialist on the American History channel discussing popular performance in the 1930s and the British BBC discussing female playwrights and literature. 
 

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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