Katherine Yew

Katherine Yew, born in Seoul, South Korea, has been a New Yorker since the age of four. She studied music and voice technique at Columbia University and Manhattan School of Music. She is a member of La MaMa's Great Jones Repertory Company and Pioneers Go East Co. Internationally, she has performed in Tapei, Rome, Spoleto, and Venice, including the Venice Biennalle. Her voice has been featured in such films as "Dummy," with Oscar-winner Adrien Brody, and the critically acclaimed "Man Push Cart. " Her original music compositions have been used to stage "S16:Luna Nera," a multi-media installation piece on the lives of sulfur miners in Sicily, "The Question of Solitude," a mini-opera based on the James Bond legacy, and "Love Cripple," an original dance piece that premiered at LaMaMa ETC.

BIG FLOWER EATER: Women in Asian History and American Theater

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Join Victoria Linchong, Kim Chinh and Katherine Yew in a conversation about their devised experimental play BIG FLOWER EATER, which explores the untold history of women in Asia through shamanism in three different Asian cultures. Excerpts of the play will be performed and screened. BIG FLOWER EATER is a scholarly and whimsical collage of folktale, ritual, dance and … Read more