Ashley Chang

ashley d. chang

(다영)

based in new york

activism	farming
animal welfare 2021 The Humane League, US Content Manager equity & inclusion 2020 Playwrights Horizons, New York Co-facilitator for “In Community”	affiliations 2021 Groundswell Center, Ithaca Equity and Accountability Committee
art	scholarship
dramaturgy 2021 Clubbed Thumb, New York “roost,” by Max Abner, dir. Joan Sergay, for Winterworks Beehive Dramaturgy Studio, New York Affiliate Dramaturg 2020 Asian American Arts Alliance, New York Panelist for selecting the 2020 Van Lier Fellow Playwrights Horizons, New York Selling Kabul, by Sylvia Khoury, dir. Tyne Rafaeli “Doctors and Playwrights,” for Sylvia Khoury’s Selling Kabul at Playwrights Horizons “Queer Histories, Queer Futures,” for Jeremy O’Harris’s A Boy’s Company Presents: “Tell Me If I’m Hurting You” ~~A Jacobean Revenge Tragedy~~ A Pageant of My Woes at Playwrights Horizons “Michael Friedman,” for Daniel Goldstein and Michael Friedman’s Unknown Soldier at Playwrights Horizons The Dennis and Victoria Ross Foundation, New York In Sisters We Trust, or My Fucked Up American Girl Doll Play, by Justine Gelfman, dir. Susanna Wolk Musical Theatre Factory, New York Panelist for selecting the second cohort of MTF’s MAKERS 2019 Playwrights Horizons, New York “In-Betweens,” for Lucas Hnath’s The Thin Place at Playwrights Horizons Heroes of the Fourth Turning, by Will Arbery, dir. Danya Taymor (2020 Pulitzer Prize Finalist) “The Trouble with Empathy,” for Will Arbery’s Heroes of the Fourth Turning at Playwrights Horizons Page 73, New York Panelist for selecting the 2020 Page 73 Fellow and Interstate 73 writers 2018 Moby Clit, by L. Hunter Petree, Dixon Place, New York 2017 The Red Tent, dir. Sohina Sidhu, Yale Cabaret, New Haven 2016 Kaspar, by Peter Handke, dir. Ayham Ghraowi, Yale Cabaret, New Haven 2015 peerless, by Jiehae Park, dir. Margot Bordelon, Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven The Secretaries, by the Five Lesbian Brothers, dir. Melanie Field, Yale Cabaret Coriolanus, by William Shakespeare, dir. Yagil Eliraz, Yale School of Drama, New Haven 2014 The Ragged Claws, by Lina Patel, dir. Jedadiah Schultz, Cherry Lane Theatre, New York artistic producing 2018 Page 73, Artistic Associate, New York Catch as Catch Can, by Mia Chung, dir. Ken Rus Schmoll 2017 Sister Sandman Productions, Producer, New York Shadow. Eurydice Says, by Elfriede Jelinek, dir. Jessica Rizzo Yale Repertory Theatre, Literary Associate, New Haven Yale Cabaret, Artistic Director, New Haven circling the drain, dir. Cole McCarty The Other World, by Charles O’Malley, dir. Baize Buzan Yale School of Drag The Red Tent, dir. Sohina Sidhu Xander Xyst, Dragon: 1, by Jeremy O. Harris, dir. Jesse Rasmussen The Quonsets, by Alex Lubischer and Majkin Holmquist, dir. Aneesha Kudtarkar Débâcles, by Marion Aubert, dir. Elizabeth Dinkova Satellite Series Festival of Performance The Meal, by Newton Moreno, dir. Stephanie Machado and Maria Inês Marques In the Red and Brown Water, by Tarell Alvin McCraney, dir. Tori Sampson 2016 Yale Cabaret, Artistic Director, New Haven Mrs. Galveston, by Sarah B. Mantell, dir. Rachel Carpman Kaspar, by Peter Handke, dir. Ayham Ghraowi Collisions, by Fred Kennedy, dir. Kevin Hourigan and Fred Kennedy Thunder Above, Deeps Below, by A. Rey Pamatmat, dir. Sebastian Arboleda Current Location, by Toshiki Okada, dir. Josh Goulding The Slow Sound of Snow, by Jaber Ramezani and Payam Saeedi, dir. Shadi Ghaheri Caught, by Christopher Chen, dir. Lynda Paul Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again, by Alice Birch, dir. Jessica Rizzo Styx Songs, dir. Lucie Dawkins Red Baraat’s Brooklyn Mela, Art Direction, New York 2013 Freex, Producer, Stanford Titus Andronicus, by William Shakespeare, dir. Laura Petree Cowboy Mouth, by Sam Shepard, dir. Laura Petree literary 2016 Web Safe 2k16, “#cc99ff” Fragmented Gaze, essay in exhibition catalog, curated by Loren Britton performance 2017 Caught, by Christopher Chen, dir. Lynda Paul, in the role of Wang Min, Yale Cabaret, New Haven 2016 Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again, by Alice Birch, dir. Jessica Rizzo, Yale Cabaret, New Haven 2015 Sister Sandman Please, by Jessica Rizzo, dir. Jessica Rizzo, Yale Cabaret, New Haven Crave, by Sarah Kane, dir. Hansol Jung, in the role of C, Yale Cabaret, New Haven 2014 The Mystery Boy, dir. Chris Bannow, Yale Cabaret, New Haven Beginners, dir. Phillip Howze, Yale Cabaret, New Haven	publications 2021 “Staging Climate Science: No Drama, Just the Facts,” PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art Editor-in-Chief, Almanac, Issue 1 Editorial Note “Looking Back” 2020 “siren eun young jung’s Yeoseong Gukgeuk Project: Acts of Affect,” Afterall 49 (2020): pp. 59–68 2019 “Humanities/Art/Technology Research Center’s Post-Apocalypsis: Assembling and Describing the Post-Natural,” Global Performance Studies 3, no. 1 (2019) teaching 2020 Playwrights Horizons Theater School, “Dramaturgy & Text Analysis,” Faculty New York University College of Arts and Science, Caridad Svich’s “Dramaturgy,” Guest Speaker 2019 Playwrights Horizons Theater School, “Dramaturgy & Text Analysis,” Faculty Yale School of Drama, Paul Walsh’s “Survey of Theater and Drama,” Teaching Fellow 2018 Purchase College, SUNY, “Introdution to Theatre and Performance Studies,” Lecturer Yale College, Brigitte Peucker’s “The Films of Alfred Hitchcock,” Teaching Fellow 2017 University of New Haven, “Introduction to Theater,” Adjunct Professor conferences and panels 2021 Ecology & Performance Working Group, co-convener, American Society For Theatre Research, San Diego, California, October 29–31 2020 Ecology & Performance Working Group, pre-conference co-convener, American Society For Theatre Research 2019 “What Dramaturgs Do and Why/When You Need One,” panelist, The Producer's Perspective Super Conference, New York, New York, November 17 Ecology & Performance Working Group, co-convener, American Society For Theatre Research, Arlington, Virginia, November 7–10 “Sam Shepard and Anti-Ecological Ethics,” presented as part of “American Drama’s Ethical Transactions,” Modern Language Association, Chicago, Illinois, January 3–6 2018 Ecology & Performance Working Group, American Society For Theatre Research, San Diego, California, November 15–18 “Lars Jan’s Holoscenes: Hydraulic Spectacle in the Anthropocene,” presented as part of “Performing Waste: Ecological Challenges and Imperatives,” Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Boston, Massachusetts, August 1–5 “The Science of Ecology in Theater and Performance,” presented as part of “Representation and the Material,” Second Annual Symposium on the Environmental Humanities, Yale Environmental Humanities, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, New Haven, CT, May 3 2017 “(Re)presenting Bodies of Ecological Scientific Data,” presented at the Ecology & Performance Working Group, American Society For Theatre Research, Atlanta, Georgia, November 16–19 “Ecological Performances of Posthuman Scales,” Beyond Humanism Conference Series, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy, July 19–22 “(Re)presenting the Real in Ecological Performance,” presented as part of “Aesthetics of Indetermination: Theatre of the Real, Multiplicity, and the Disruption of Authenticity,” Canadian Association for Theatre Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, May 27–30 “Vital Matter and Ecological Performance in the Anthropocene,” presented as part of “Metamorphic Magic: Performing Objects, Agency and Ecologies,” Canadian Association for Theatre Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, May 27–30 “Atomic Noise in Post-Apocalyptic Performance,” presented at the seminar “Atomic Performances,” Canadian Association for Theatre Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, May 27–30 “Lars Jan’s Holoscenes: Hydraulic Spectacle in the Anthropocene,” presented at the seminar “W.E.T: Water Ecologies in Theatre,” Canadian Association for Theatre Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, May 27–30 “A Material Feminist Approach to Dance: FlucT’s Agape,” Approaching Dance: The Doctoral Theatre Students’ Association Conference, The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY, May 11 “From Sense to Scale in Contemporary Performance of the Anthropocene,” presented as part of “Posthumanism and the Anthropocene,” Yale Environmental Humanities, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, New Haven, CT, May 4 awards, grants, and fellowships 2018 Dissertation Writing Fellowship, Yale School of Drama Grant Recipient, School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University Mark Blankenship Award, Yale School of Drama 2017 Mark Blankenship Award, Yale School of Drama Literary Associate Fellowship, Yale Repertory Theatre Digital Humanities Lab Seed Grant, Yale University digital humanities 2019 Conceiver, Performap, The Theatre Times 2018 Participant, “Help! I’m a Humanist!—Humanities Programming with Python,” Humanities Intensive Learning and Teaching
education
2021 Doctor of Fine Arts (DFA), Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism, Yale School of Drama, New Haven, CT 2016 Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism, Yale School of Drama, New Haven, CT 2013 Bachelor of Arts (BA) with Honors, English Literature and Philosophy, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
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