Michelle Carriger
Michelle Liu Carriger comes from Kansas. On the way to Brown, she earned a BA from Pepperdine University and spent two years teaching English to every kid ages 4 to 15 in Kawabe Village, Japan. She earned an MA in Theatre Studies from the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she completed a thesis entitled "Performers in the Audience: The Boulton and Park Case of 1870-71." Her ATHE debut panel paper (LGBT focus group) on the same subject won the Theory and Criticism focus group Graduate Student Award in 2005. She has been a Japanese tea ceremony practitioner for 9 years and an article entitled "Consuming Culture: The Japanese Way of Tea in Performance" is forthcoming in a volume entitledPerformance, Embodiment, and Cultural Memoryfrom Cambridge Scholars Press. Recent performance work includes Cabaret Murderessand Mirror Stage, with Molly Flynn and Elise Morrison. Some of hershort films are available at www.youtube.com/kitvishnu.
She likes to pick up strange things on the street and take them home.
