Consciousness, Literature and the Arts
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Biographies of Contributors
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Margaret
Coldiron
was born in Butte, Montana, received a BA in English & Comparative
Literature from William Smith College (NY) and trained as an actress at the
Drama Centre London. Having worked for a number of years as an actress and
director in the professional theatre and actor training, she completed an MA in
Text and Performance Studies at Kings College, London and a PhD in Drama at
Royal Holloway, University of London. She is a specialist in Asian performance
and has done field work in Thailand, Bali, Japan and Kerala. Research interests
include: masks and masking; intercultural performance; ethnography and the
neurophysiological implications of performance techniques. She is a member of
the Asian Studies Association, the Association for Asian Performance and the
Directors’ Guild of Great Britain. Her book, Trance and Transformation of
the Actor in Japanese Noh and Balinese Dance Drama was published by Edwin
Mellen Press in 2004.