Join us this Sunday for the second workshop of this year’s Chinese Theater Night, where we learn to craft a character-driven story through unpacking character motivation, backstory, and dialogue.
- Time: Sunday, September 28, 12:00 -1:30 pm
- Location: Performance Café
- Guest Mentor: Ye Odelia Lu
- Shark Burger Lunch provided!
Seats are limited. If you’re interested in attending, please contact Hui Yao at hui.yao@dukekunshan.edu.cn or Madison Brown at madison.a.brown@dukekunshan.edu.cn
About the Guest Mentor
Ye Odelia Lu is a Lecturer of Writing and Translation at Duke Kunshan University. She is an essayist, translator, and editor with an MFA degree in Writing and Literary Translation from Columbia University. Her work has appeared in Sine Theta Magazine, Columbia Journal, The Margins, Epiphany Magazine, and Samovar. In 2023, she was awarded the Travel Fellowship by the American Literary Translators Association. Before joining DKU, Lu taught creative nonfiction, TV writing, and video game narrative design at Columbia University and Wellesley College. Currently, she is translating Lin Hsin-Hui’s Contactless Intimacy from Chinese to English, a queer sci-fi novel that explores themes of human-machine relationship, autonomy, and heteronormativity.
For the first workshop of this series, check: 2nd Chinese Theater Night Workshop 1: Acting
