Left: Jane Chen at APAture 2002. Photos by David Huang.

JANE CHEN is a Chinese-American physical theater artist and singer who has been performing and training for over fifteen years. A graduate of Yale University and the Dell'Arte School of Physical Theater, Jane has created original theater pieces which combine such varied forms as opera, shadow puppetry, and theatrical clowning. She performed the opera aria and shadow puppet play "La Mamma Morta," at APAture 2001 and PuppetLOVE! 2001. In 2002 she toured the San Francisco and Seattle Fringe Festivals as well as APAture 2002 with Beneath Sita's Belly, an original collaborative piece adapted from The Ramayana, with physical theater, original music, and shadow puppetry. She was an actor in U.C. BerkeleyÁs Tarnival (tobacco education) project, and founder of the Homeless Theater Troupe, a New Haven-based group of homeless actors. She has also appeared on HBO in The Babysitters Club, on NBC in Amy TanÁs segment of Visions of America, and at Carnegie Hall with the CityKids.

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