About

Catherine (Kate) Ming T'ien Duffly is a scholar-director and community-engaged theatre artist with a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. Her teaching and research interests include socially engaged and community-based theatre, 20th and 21st century American theatre, race theory and performance, acting, directing, and devising. Kate's writing has appeared in Theatre Topics, Theatre Survey, TDR: The Drama Review, and Theatre Annual. She has collaborated on projects with Cornerstone Theater, Touchable Stories, Lunatique Fantastique, and Wise Fool Community Arts. Kate is the president of the board of Oregon’s Asian American/Pacific Islander (AAPI) theatre company Theatre Diaspora. She is also on the board of CoHo Productions in Portland. 

Reed Magazine article: “The Art of the Conference”