Siting Yang

Siting Yang

Siting Yang looking at the camera. She has dark hair, and wears a dark shirt and gold earrings.

Siting Yang is a theatermaker born and raised in Beijing, China. A graduate student at Harvard GLL since 2022, her research focuses on dramaturgy, theater of the real, documentary/archival media, material culture, and intersections of non-fiction, history, and theatricality from the age of modernism to the present. In her creative practice, she seeks to explore possibilities of the crafts of documentary theater, playing with investigative interviews, non-fiction materials, and literary adaptation. Her recent credits include: Cherry Orchard (2022, New York), The Sea Does Not Reach Naples (2022, New York), Ward No. Six (2022, New York), Sky or Darkness (2022, New York), and V. A. B. E. L. (2022, Augsburg). Her recent academic contributions include: Panelist on Field Imaginations at Flame Univeristy, Pune, India (2023); guest lecturer on WOULD I LIE TO YOU with Serendipity Arts, New Delhi, India (2023). She received her B. A. in History and German Studies at Peking University, her MFA in dramaturgy at Columbia University, and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in German Languages and Literatures at Harvard University.