Kee-Yoon Nahm
Associate Professor of Theatre Studies
Sch of Theatre Dance and Film
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CVA Center For The Visual Arts 211a
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Biography
Kee-Yoon Nahm, D.F.A. (Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism, Yale School of Drama) is Associate Professor of Theatre Studies at Illinois State University and Festival Dramaturg of the Illinois Shakespeare Festival. He has published articles in Theater, Performance Research, Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context, and The Journal of American Drama and Theatre, among other academic journals and essay collections. His research interests include the self-conscious appropriation of cultural stereotypes, avant-garde performance, and renegotiations of Korean national and transnational identity in the twenty-first century. Kee-Yoon also works as a production dramaturg, theatre translator, and regional editor for The Theatre Times, where he covers South Korean theatre.
Other Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism
Yale School of Drama
New Haven, CT
MFA Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism
Yale School of Drama
New Haven, CT
Bachelor of Arts English Language and Literature & Korean Language and Literature
Korea University
Seoul, South Korea
Plays in Translation Contest
Scoundrel & Scamp Theatre and the American Literary Translators Association
2023
Creative Activity Initiative Award
Illinois State University
2022
Creative Activity Initiative Award
Woksook Kim College of Fine Arts
2022
Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts Research Initiative Award
Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts
2021
Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts Service Initiative Award
Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts College Council
2020
Impact Award
University College, Illinois State University
2020
University Research Grant
Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts
2020
Grants & Contracts
FY21 University Research Grant (Archival Research on the Work of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha). Illinois State University. Illinois State University. (2020)
Performances and Exhibits
Aubergine
Kee-Yoon Nahm
February 2 2023 - February 19 2023
Kee-Yoon Nahm
February 2 2023 - February 19 2023
The Book of Will
Kee-Yoon Nahm
June 23 2023 - August 5 2023
Kee-Yoon Nahm
June 23 2023 - August 5 2023
The Comedy of Errors
Kee-Yoon Nahm
June 23 2023 - August 5 2023
Kee-Yoon Nahm
June 23 2023 - August 5 2023
The Duchess of Malfi
Kee-Yoon Nahm
November 15 2023 - November 19 2023
Kee-Yoon Nahm
November 15 2023 - November 19 2023
The Tempest
Kee-Yoon Nahm
June 23 2023 - August 5 2023
Kee-Yoon Nahm
June 23 2023 - August 5 2023
Dear Mr. C
Kee-Yoon Nahm
April 22 2022 - April 22 2022
Kee-Yoon Nahm
April 22 2022 - April 22 2022
Everything Rises
Kee-Yoon Nahm
Brooklyn Academy of Music. October 12 2022 - October 15 2022
Kee-Yoon Nahm
Brooklyn Academy of Music. October 12 2022 - October 15 2022
Everything Rises
Kee-Yoon Nahm
UC Santa Barbara & UCLA. April 12 2022 - April 14 2022
Kee-Yoon Nahm
UC Santa Barbara & UCLA. April 12 2022 - April 14 2022
King Lear
Kee-Yoon Nahm
July 8 2022 - August 4 2022
Kee-Yoon Nahm
July 8 2022 - August 4 2022
Much Ado about Nothing
Kee-Yoon Nahm
July 1 2022 - August 5 2022
Kee-Yoon Nahm
July 1 2022 - August 5 2022
REBELS WITH A CAUSE Workshop Presentation
Janet M Wilson, Robert F Quinlan, Kee-Yoon Nahm
SOTD. August 23 2022 - August 31 2022
Janet M Wilson, Robert F Quinlan, Kee-Yoon Nahm
SOTD. August 23 2022 - August 31 2022
Staged Reading of "The Wooden Boat"
Kee-Yoon Nahm
October 27 2022 - October 27 2022
Kee-Yoon Nahm
October 27 2022 - October 27 2022
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)
Kee-Yoon Nahm
June 13 2022 - June 12 2022
Kee-Yoon Nahm
June 13 2022 - June 12 2022
Time of Death
Kee-Yoon Nahm, Yongsuk Yoo
May 2022 - December 2022
Kee-Yoon Nahm, Yongsuk Yoo
May 2022 - December 2022
Five
Kee-Yoon Nahm
September 2 2021 - September 5 2021
Kee-Yoon Nahm
September 2 2021 - September 5 2021
Staged Reading of "Requiem for a Brother"
Kee-Yoon Nahm
April 23 2021 - April 25 2021
Kee-Yoon Nahm
April 23 2021 - April 25 2021
Strange Fruit
Kee-Yoon Nahm
Voices of Hope Festival, Carnegie Hall. April 23 2021 - May 31 2021
Kee-Yoon Nahm
Voices of Hope Festival, Carnegie Hall. April 23 2021 - May 31 2021
Yellow Inn
Kee-Yoon Nahm
October 26 2021 - October 31 2021
Kee-Yoon Nahm
October 26 2021 - October 31 2021
Everything that Rises Must Converge (postponed)
Kee-Yoon Nahm
UCLA Center for the Art of Performance. April 17 2020 - April 17 2020
Kee-Yoon Nahm
UCLA Center for the Art of Performance. April 17 2020 - April 17 2020
Five Elements (postponed)
Kee-Yoon Nahm
September 17 2020 - September 20 2020
Kee-Yoon Nahm
September 17 2020 - September 20 2020
Virtual staged reading of Don't Be Too Surprised
Kee-Yoon Nahm
June 20 2020 - June 20 2020
Kee-Yoon Nahm
June 20 2020 - June 20 2020
Public demonstration of VR theatre experiment "Ae-ri in Otherland"
Kee-Yoon Nahm
Arts Council Korea (ARKO). - December 19 2020
Kee-Yoon Nahm
Arts Council Korea (ARKO). - December 19 2020
Virtual screening of "Borderline"
Kee-Yoon Nahm
International Online Theatre Festival, The Theatre Times. - June 1 2021
Kee-Yoon Nahm
International Online Theatre Festival, The Theatre Times. - June 1 2021
Virtual staged reading of "The Footprint" by Ko Yeon-ok
Kee-Yoon Nahm
- February 13 2021
Kee-Yoon Nahm
- February 13 2021
Book Review
Nahm, K. Book Review: Model Minority Masochism: Performing the Cultural Politics of Asian American Masculinity. Rebecca Kastleman (EDs). Modern Drama (2023)
Nahm, K. Book review of America in the Round: Capitalism, Race, and Nation at Washington, DC’s Arena Stage. Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 35.1 (2020)
Book, Chapter
Nahm, K. Choosing the ‘Best’ Translation for Plays outside the Western Canon on the Syllabus. Charles O’Malley (EDs), Toward a Just Pedagogy of Performance: Historiography, Narrative, and Equity in Dramatic Practice. Routledge (2023)
Nahm, K. The Subversion of Everyday Life: Neoliberal South Korea and the Theatre of the Everyday in the Plays of Park Geun-hyung. Jessica Nakamura & Katherine Saltzman-Li (EDs), Realisms in East Asian Performance. University of Michigan Press (2023)
Nahm, K. "Theatrical Border Crossings: Stereotypes against Realism in the Plays of Young Jean Lee". Meerzon, Yana, Dean, David, McNeil, Daniel (EDs), Migration and Stereotypes in Performance and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan (2020): 57-75.
Journal Article
Nahm, K. Mapping Translation and Performance. Terrence Murphy, Kee-Yoon Nahm (EDs). Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context 14.2 (2021): 1-22.
Nahm, K. "What Kind of Theatre to Return To?: COVID-19 and the Realignment of American Theatre". Mihee Kim (EDs). Theatre Forum [Yeoneuk Porum] 2021 (2021)
Nahm, K. "American Theatre after 9/11". Mihee Kim (EDs). Theatre Forum [Yeoneuk Porum] (2020): 62-76.
Translation
Nahm, K. Opheliamachine (Korean). Opheliamachine. Methuen Drama (2024)
Presentations
Choosing the ‘Best’ Translation for Plays on the Syllabus. Mid-America Theatre Conference. (2022)
FutureStage Manifesto: Asia. FutureStage Manifesto: Asia. metaLab at Harvard University and Freie Universität Berlin. (2022)
New Play Development as Pedagogy for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. Association for Theatre in Higher Education. (2022)
Codemakers: Jennifer Koh, Davóne Tines, Ken Ueno, and Kee-Yoon Nahm. Codemakers: Jennifer Koh, Davóne Tines, Ken Ueno, and Kee-Yoon Nahm. University of Massachusetts Amherst Fine Arts Center. (2021)
Romance of the Two Kingdoms: U.S.-China Relations and Trans-Pacific Criticism in Chinglish and Soft Power. Mid-America Theatre Conference. (2020)
Translating Characters across Language, Culture, and Gender: Yellow Inn and King Lear. Mid-America Theatre Conference. (2020)
“‘Why’d You Change Your Name?’:Diaspora, Translation, and Historiography in the Work of Mo Bahc/Bahc Yiso”. American Society for Theatre Research. (2020)