Wei Jie Yu
Fellow
In 1990 Yu worked with an international theatre research project at the University of Bayreuth, from where he obtained his PhD. Since 2001, as Dean of the School of Performing Arts, he has been heading the Theatre Department at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore, where he has set up a bilingual theatre faculty and distinguished performing arts school. As a theatre educationalist and specialist in training actors, Yu publishes and lectures widely in this field. His long-time research interest mainly covers the area of transcultural theatre productions, especially of the Mandarin reception and interpretation of Shakespeare‘s works, as well as the modern approaches to/adaptations of Western dramatic literature on the Chinese stage at large.
In 1990 Yu worked with an international theatre research project at the University of Bayreuth, from where he obtained his PhD. Since 2001, as Dean of the School of Performing Arts, he has been heading the Theatre Department at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore, where he has set up a bilingual theatre faculty and distinguished performing arts school. As a theatre educationalist and specialist in training actors, Yu publishes and lectures widely in this field. His long-time research interest mainly covers the area of transcultural theatre productions, especially of the Mandarin reception and interpretation of Shakespeare‘s works, as well as the modern approaches to/adaptations of Western dramatic literature on the Chinese stage at large.
