Campus Directory

Division Arts Division

Department/College/Unit Arts Division
Department of Performance, Play & Design (PPD)
Porter College

Title Professor
Artsbridge Director
Pavel Machotka Chair

Affiliation Faculty

Other UCSC Campus Affiliation South Asia Studies

Faculty Type Regular Faculty

Areas of Expertise Theater
Asian Music
Asian Studies
Direction (Theater)
Folklore
South Asian Studies
Gamelan
Popular Culture
Dance

Additional Location(s) Theater Arts Center J15

Mail Stop Theater Arts Center

Biography, Education and Training

Kathy Foley is a professor of Theatre Arts  and editor of Asian Theatre Journal with expertise in Asian theatre, performance, masks, puppetry and object theatre. She curates exhibitions of Asian masks and puppets. Performs Sundanese Wayang Golek internationally and has taught at Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok), Yonsei University (Seoul), University of Malaya (Kuala Lumpur), and University of Hawai'i (Manoa), as well as UCSC. She serves on the board of UNIMA (Union International de la Marrionette)-USA and the research and publication commissions of UNIMA-international. She does research on interfaces of Islam and the performing arts with attention to Southeast Asia, Shakespeare in non-western performance, and other topics. She performs Sundanese Wayang Golek nationally and internationally. Directing and devised performances are part of her creative work. Recent grants include Asian Cultural Council, World Wood Foundation, Fulbright Senior Scholar Grant (Malaysia), and Institute of Sacred Music (Yale University). Recent and upcoming exhibits focus on Islam and instangible cultural heritage in Malaysia, Thai traditional performance in transition, and Indian puppetry.