Editor, Production Assistant, Camera Operator, and Assistant Art Director. MA in Music Business, New York University. BA in Radio and TV, concentrating on video production and TV broadcasting, National Chengchi University. Once was nominated The Best Documentary at The 4th Taiwan Student Audio and Video Festival. Co-edited the documentary Strike for Taiwan Public Television. Believe that media creation is a means of expressing social concerns.
Utako was a member of Takarazuka Revue Company, a popular musical and dance company in Japan and consists of only female performers. She mainly played male roles. She left Takarazuka Revue in 2005 and came to NY to study at Stony Brook University and graduated from CUNY Brooklyn College with BA in Theatre. In 2013, Utako received MA in Performance Studies, New York University. She developed her analysis of artificial genders in the performance of Takarazuka Theater.
MA in Cinema Studies, NYU tisch, with the William K. Everson Award for Academic Excellence. Her research interests include cinematic modernism, time and space in film, embodied spectatorship, and adaptation. Besides her academic life, she has been dedicating to filmmaking, acting, and writing. Her short film Forgive (2012) was selected into NYU’s Sight&Sound Showcase. Her fiction works—both a poem and a short story—won major national literature awards in her home country, Taiwan.
Mini Gu earned her master’s degree in arts administration, education and policy. She is originally from Shanghai, China, where she participated in Vagina Monologues at Fudan University in 2008 and 2009. Believing in the transformational power of theatre and arts of all kinds, she continued training in theatre and visual arts after moving to the U.S. and integrating cultural experience into the ongoing exploration of personal expression.
Grew up in Taiwan and currently enrolls at SUNY Brockport Master in Public Administration program with a concentration in Art Management. She was interning at Cloud Gate Dance Theater, one of the most famous dance theater in Taiwan for six months before coming to States. While her profession often involved in art festival, performance administration, personally, she is an enthusiast in performing art herself and had over ten years of training in ballet dance.
Wanning is an actor, his acting experience ranges from Improv, off broadway shows to experimental film productions in Taiwan. From 2013 he will enroll in NYU’s drama therapy program. His passion in theatre has shifted from solely on acting to the application of drama to daily life. His vision is to promote drama therapy in Asia and to inspire/support the society via theatre.