Kathy Foley is a Distinguished Research Professor of Performance, Play, and Design at the University of California, Santa Cruz and she has taught at University of Hawaii, University of Malaya (Kuala Lumpur), Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok) and Yonsei University (Seoul). She has served as President of UNIMA-USA and been a member of the UNIMA-International Research Commission and Publications and Writing Commission. She edited Asian Theatre Journal from 2005-2018 winning the ATHE award for Excellence in Editing in 2019. She was one of the first non-Indonesian to perform in the Indonesia National Wayang Festival (Pekan Wayang) as a dalang. She studied with Dalang Otong Rasta and Dalang Abah Sunarya in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. She has presented wayang at the Smithsonian Institution (Washington, D.C.), San Francisco Asian Art Museum, Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.), University of Melbourne (Australia), and other venues. She has curated touring exhibitions of puppets and masks of South, Southeast Asia, Korea, Thailand, and Malaysia at sites like Center for Puppetry Arts (Atlanta), the East-West Center (Honolulu), and National Geographic Society (Washington). Her work has been supported by Fulbright, Asian Cultural Council, Institute of Sacred Music/Yale University, and East-West Center (Honolulu, HI). Her publications have focused on the performing arts of Southeast Asia.