孙也佳 Sun Yejia (she/her/hers) comes from Beijing, China, and is currently based in New York and Chicago. Her work involves questioning the truths about knowledge and archives, socially engaged storytelling with communities, decolonizing New Materialism, and death culture in the digital age. In the United States, her dramaturgical/independent multidisciplinary works are presented at National Sawdust, Exponential Festival(JACK), Cellunova New Play Festival(Theaterlab), Accent Sisters, etc. She is currently co-leading multidisciplinary work featured in Tongues Collective(multilingual documentary theatre making, supported by NYSCA, LMCC among others), and Tiandi Universal Market(A4 WCWD funding). In China, her dramaturgical works were presented at the Goethe Institute Shanghai, Rockbound Museum, Young Theatre, and Shekou Theatre Festival, among others. Her essays were published at Critical Stages, Howlround, and YingMing Theater. She is a recipient of the Davis Project for Peace fellowship, the A4 WCWD fellowship, the Lisa Lu Scholarship, and the SNF PHI funding.

BFA. Communication University of China; MFA. Columbia University; Currently PhD. at Northwestern University, Performance Studies