Author: Siting Yang

Siting Yang (she/her) is an interdisciplinary theater maker based in Beijing and NYC. Her body of work is motivated by a twofold impulse: revolution and nostalgia. By revolution, she seeks to explore radical aesthetical expressions of individual discontent, resistance, and digression in the oppressive system of everyday life. By nostalgia, she collects stories from the trajectory of history and literature that resonate with our modern souls, and reshape them with contemporary relevance. Her recent credits include: HoD (New York, 2021), The Tin Drum (Toronto, 2021), War Eagle (Beijing, 2019), Marat/Sade (Beijing, 2018). She received her B. A. at Peking University in German Literature and World History, and is currently pursuing her MFA in dramaturgy at Columbia University.

Articles by this author

Milo Rau, Yvan Sagnet and The New Gospel: What can an African Jesus Tell us about Racism and Globalized Capitalism?

Extended Play advisory board member Milo Rau’s production stems from a political campaign for migrant farm workers in Southern Italy, investigates its actual events, leaders, and participants, and extracts its course of resistance into a contemporary biblical fable for the silver screen.

‘Giving Birth’ and Community Theatre: Suturing Fragmented Relations through the Art of Pain

Giving Birth, an interview-based devised play co-created by Zhiyong Zhao and Mulan Community Service Center, centers the authentic accounts of a group of female migrant workers in Beijing on the pain of childbirth.