We are honored to welcome Dr. Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei to Curtains Up. Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei is an internationally recognized theater scholar, playwright, and Professor Emerita of Theater at UCLA. Her work explores the intersections of traditional and contemporary performance, with a deep focus on Japanese theater forms such as Noh, Kabuki, and Bunraku, as well as the dynamic field of intercultural performance.

Described as the "founding mother" of Asian theatre studies, Sorgenfrei remains an influential scholar in the field of Japanese theatrical studies. Author of Unspeakable Acts: The Avant-Garde Theatre of Terayama Shuji and Postwar Japan, Dr. Sorgenfrei has published extensively on global theater traditions, gender and performance, and East-West artistic dialogue. Her plays and translations have been performed in the U.S. and abroad, and her teaching has inspired generations of theater artists and academics.

As a guest on Curtains Up, Dr. Sorgenfrei brings her decades of research, creativity, and cross-cultural insight to help us explore how ancient theatrical forms continue to inform and shape the global stage today.

It is our great privilege to have her on the show speaking about her experience as a scholar of Asian Theater.