The Monkey King Opera Previews

November 4th - November 11th, 2025

Explore The Monkey King in a 90-minute in-person presentation by Dramaturg Yining Lin.

Dr. Yining Lin is a freelance dramaturge and theatre education administrator based in Northeast Ohio. Most recently, Dr. Lin worked with Cleveland Play House as their Manager of Partnerships where she worked with organizations and schools to bring Out of School and theatre programming to the students in Cleveland, Buffalo, and Las Vegas. She currently works freelance with Canton Ballet to enhance their outreach programming. As a dramaturge, Yining specializes in AAPI and Social Justice Theatre and has worked in San Francisco, Honolulu, Florida, Milwaukee, and Cleveland. 

She holds a BA in theatre and classical studies from the College of Wooster, a masters of Drama from San Francisco State University, and a PhD from University of Hawai’i at Manoa where she specialized in Asian/western comparative theatre. Her dissertation focused on the intercultural nature of jingju (Beijing Opera) adaptations from the 21st century. She is a member of the Association of Asian Performance and has been published in the Journal of Dance Education and the Asian Theatre Journal. Her current research is focused on developing anti-racist methodologies of dramaturgical research in both Western and Asian theatre as well as the presentation of Chinese ethnic minorities in jingju performance.

The virtual Opera Preview will be a special conversation between Dr. Yining Lin and esteemed librettist David Henry Hwang.