Kurahashi is the author of Asian American Culture on Stage: The History of the East West Players (Garland, now Taylor & Francis, 1999), Multicultural Theatre (Kendall/Hunt, 2004 & 2006), and The Interdisciplinary Theatre of Ping Chong(McFarland,2020).  

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 PlayShakespeare.com. 

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