Kee-Yoon Nahm

Kee-Yoon Nahm is Visiting Associate Professor of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, and on leave as Associate Professor of Theatre Studies at Illinois State University. He is Festival Dramaturg at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival, while also working as a dramaturg and theatre translator in the United States and South Korea. His translations have been presented at the National Theatre Company of Korea, the Seoul Performing Arts Festival, Vaeda Theatre, Illinois State University, Texas State University, Coalescence Theatre Project, and Yale Cabaret. His dramaturgy work includes productions at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Yale Repertory Theatre, The Brooklyn Academy of Music, Significant Productions, TheatreWorks Colorado Springs, UC Santa Barbara, UCLA, Yale Cabaret, the Korean National Gugak Center, and the National Dance Company of Korea. From 2019 to 2024, he was the Chair of the Crossroads Project at Illinois State University, which operated the Diverse Voices Playwriting Initiative, a new play development program for BIPOC playwrights. His academic publications include articles in journals such as Theater, Performance Research, Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context, and The Journal of American Drama and Theatre, among others, as well as the anthologies Towards a Just Pedagogy of Performance, Realisms in East Asian Performance, Performing Objects and Theatrical Things, and Migration and Stereotypes in Performance and Culture. He is on the editorial board of Asian Theatre Journal, where he reviews submissions on Korean theatre and performance.