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Cheng Nien Yuan is a Singaporean performance scholar, educator, and dramaturg. Currently, he is a Faculty Early Career Award (FECA) Fellow at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). His work involves exploring practice poetics and storytelling in the digital age, focusing on creative praxis and performance-making in theatre. Nien's current research projects examine intercultural acting pedagogies and rehearsal processes in established theatre institutions and companies within Singapore. His research has been published in notable journals, including Critical Stages, Studies in Theatre Performance, Oral History Review, and Performance Paradigm. At SUTD, he is keen to foster connections between dramaturgical thinking and design processes, particularly investigating the relationship between embodied performance and technologies that enable human-machine interaction, such as augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) experiences. Additionally, he is interested in the role performance plays in placemaking and sustainable development. Nien completed his PhD in Theatre Performance Studies at the University of Sydney in 2020, for which he received the 2021 John Legge Prize for his thesis in Asian Studies.
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