Sarah Bay-Cheng
Sarah Bay-Cheng is Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Studies in Theatre at the University at Buffalo, where she teaches courses in dramatic literature, contemporary theatre, theories of performance, and intermediality. Her research interests include avantgarde theatre and film, modernist literature and performance, performance poetics, and intersections of technology and theatre. Bay-Cheng is a founding member of the Intermedia Performance Studio, and is a member of the international research group, Intermediality in Theatre & Performance, with whom she is currently co-editing a book on theatre and digital culture. She has also worked as puppeteer and mask performer and has written several plays specifically for puppets, including adaptations of Richard Wagner's ring cycle (2001) and Medea (International Festival of Puppetry, 2003). Her original play, "The Peacock Flew," was adapted for National Public Radio's Archaeology of Lost Voices Series (presented as "Hidden Dragon" 2001). Bay-Cheng received her A.B. in Theatre and Film from Wellesley College and her Ph.D. in Theatre from the University of Michigan.