Sarah Bay-Cheng

Sarah Bay-Cheng is a technology, media and theatre researcher and academic. She is Dean and Professor at York University's School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design in Toronto, Ontario in Canada. Her research and commentary explores the interplay of technology and dramatic performance, particularly in the digital age.

Education & academic career
Bay-Cheng received a BA in Theatre and Film Studies from Wellesley College in 1996, and a PhD in theatre from the University of Michigan in 2001. She has worked as a professor at Colgate University, the University of Buffalo and Bowdoin College, before taking on her current role as Dean of AMPD at York University in 2019.

Bay-Cheng has written and edited 4 books and over 50 academic articles and essays related to the critical analysis of theatre, media and performance and its function in contemporary society. She has been interviewed by news outlets for her expertise regarding technology and performance, and for commentary on specific productions.

As an editor, she edited the book series, Avant-Gardes in Performance for Palgrave and contributes to the International Journal of Performance Arts and Media and the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, among others. She is currently the Vice-Chair for the Canadian Association of Fine Arts Deans, the International Council of Arts Deans, Factory Theatre (Toronto), and Contemporary Theatre Review, among others''. ''

Notable publications

 * S. Bay-Cheng (2004). Mama Dada : Gertrude Stein’s Avant-Garde Theater. Routledge.
 * S. Bay-Cheng and B. Cole (2010). Poets at play : An Anthology of Modernist Drama. Susquehanna University Press.
 * S. Bay-Cheng, C. Kattenbelt, A. Lavender, R. Nelson, eds. (2010) Mapping Intermediality in Performance Amsterdam University Press.
 * S. Bay-Cheng, J. Parker-Starbuck, D. Z. Saltz (2015). Performance and Media : Taxonomies for a Changing Field. University of Michigan Press.