ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
Suheir Hammad
2010-2011
Byron Au Yong and Aaron Jafferis
2009-2010
Susana Lei'ataua
2008-2009
Susana Lei'ataua
2007-2008
DJ Rekha
2006-2007
Regie Cabico
2005-2006
Helen Zia
2004-2005
Fay Chiang
2003-2004
Corky Lee
2002-2003
Keng Sen Ong
2001-2002
David Henry Hwang
2000-2001
Ping Chong
1999-2000
Jessica Hagedorn
1998-1999
Tomie Arai
1997-1998
Annanya Bhattacharjee
1997-1998
Each year, New York University hosts an acclaimed artist to hold residency with its Asian/Pacific/American Institute. Artists-in-Residence are invited to bring their notoriety, artistic work, and history of involvement with the Asian/Pacific American community to NYU. The Artist-in-Residence uses his/her time at A/P/A to create important new work, artistic retrospectives, forums, or conferences. Scholars, fellow artists, and community members familiar or new to the artist's work, gain a unique opportunity to engage with the Artist-in-Residence within a university setting.
Susana Lei'ataua is an actor and a writer. Over the years she has also been a journalist, a radio newsreader, talk show host, television presenter, producer and editor. She was the communications specialist for the Royal New Zealand Ballet, and recently the project leader of the Ngai Tahu Leadership Programme for the indigenous Maori iwi (tribe) Ngai Tahu. She is the recipient of the New Zealand Fulbright Senior Scholar Award 2008. Her solo dramatic poem Through Windows was produced by the A/P/A Institute in 2003, and as part of the Pacifika film festival in 2004. Written in the winter immediately following 9/11, Through Windows is a Samoan New Zealand woman’s view of home and self from her walkup apartment in the East Village. Lei’ataua was a founding actor in the devised visual theatre work Vula that performs on a stage of water, exploring the stories of Pacific women. Lei’ataua performed extensively with Vula through New Zealand, and in Guam. Recent roles include May in My Mother Dreaming by Dianna Fuemana, and Mrs. Muller in John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt.
Susana Lei'ataua (2007 - 2008)
Susana Lei'ataua is an actor and a writer. Over the years she has also been a journalist, a radio newsreader, talk show host, television presenter, producer and editor. She was the communications specialist for the Royal New Zealand Ballet, and recently the project leader of the Ngai Tahu Leadership Programme for the indigenous Maori iwi (tribe) Ngai Tahu. She is the recipient of the New Zealand Fulbright Senior Scholar Award 2008. Her solo dramatic poem Through Windows was produced by the A/P/A Institute in 2003, and as part of the Pacifika film festival in 2004. Written in the winter immediately following 9/11, Through Windows is a Samoan New Zealand woman’s view of home and self from her walkup apartment in the East Village. Lei’ataua was a founding actor in the devised visual theatre work Vula that performs on a stage of water, exploring the stories of Pacific women. Lei’ataua performed extensively with Vula through New Zealand, and in Guam. Recent roles include May in My Mother Dreaming by Dianna Fuemana, and Mrs. Muller in John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt.