Allen Baylosis
Performance Studies Alumni Allen Baylosis (M.A. '21) has been named the recipient of the 2021-2022 Charlotte Douglas Fee Graduate Award. Congratulations Allen!
Allen is the recipient of the 2021-2022 Charlotte Douglas Fee Graduate Award, nominated by The Social Justice Institute, University of British Columbia (UBC). This award was established in 2009 by UBC Professor Margery Fee in memory of her mother, an early feminist and peace activist. The annual award recognizes the achievements of a student in the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice; specifically, his scholarly contributions and/or impact in the field of theatre and performance studies.
Allen is an emerging dramaturg, and a critical racial and ethnic performance scholar. He comes to the field of performance studies as a socio-academic activist and an artist by exploring the intersections and entanglements of theatre, minoritarian performances, transnationalism, migration, cultural production, racial capitalism, and transpacific worldmaking as he locates himself immersing in the field of Critical Filipinx studies. He is interested in complicating differing types and media of transnational/diasporic Filipinx Candian art and performances by acknowledging its “difference(s) without separability” in suggesting a transformative theory of justice.