<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(153,0,255);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:medium">******************</span><br></div>Welcome to <span style="color:rgb(29,34,40);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14.6667px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Dr. Yuko Kurahashi the newest member of the Cleveland Critics Circle.</span><div><span style="color:rgb(29,34,40);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14.6667px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Her bio reads:  </span><span class="gmail-normaltextrun" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Yuko Kurahashi is a tenured full professor of theatre at Kent State University. Kurahashi has a BA in English (Keio University, Tokyo), MA in English (Waseda University, Tokyo) and Theatre (Indiana University), and Ph.D. in Theatre (Indiana University).</span><span class="eop" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><br></div><div><p class="gmail-paragraph" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"></span></p><p class="gmail-paragraph" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><span class="eop"> </span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"></span></p><p class="gmail-paragraph" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><span class="gmail-normaltextrun">Kurahashi is the author of<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Asian-American-Culture-Stage-Americans/dp/113896395X" target="_blank"><span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><i><span style="color:blue">Asian American Culture on Stage: The History of the East West Players</span></i></span></a><span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Garland, now Taylor & Francis, 1999),<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Multicultural-Theatre-KURAHASHI-YUKO/dp/0757537278" target="_blank"><span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><i><span style="color:blue">Multicultural Theatre</span></i></span></a><span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Kendall/Hunt, 2004 & 2006), and<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/the-interdisciplinary-theatre-of-ping-chong/" target="_blank"><span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><i><span style="color:blue">The Interdisciplinary Theatre of Ping Chong</span></i></span></a><span class="gmail-normaltextrun">(McFarland,2020). </span><span class="eop"> </span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"></span></p><p class="gmail-paragraph" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><span class="eop"> </span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"></span></p><p class="gmail-paragraph" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><span class="gmail-normaltextrun">Kurahashi spent two years in New York City when she was 5-7 when her father was a Fulbright scholar. It was during that time when she became attracted to theatre; she still remembers attending, with her family. To this day, Kurahashi is a passionate theatergoer and she writes reviews and articles for scholarly journals and other venues; she is an official contributing writer for<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://playshakespeare.com/" target="_blank"><span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span style="color:blue">PlayShakespeare.com</span></span></a><span class="gmail-normaltextrun">.</span><span class="eop"> </span></p><p class="gmail-paragraph" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="eop"><font color="#9900ff">******************</font></span></p></div></div>