Yuge Ma is a M.F.A. in Theatre candidate with a specialization in performance as public practice at The University of Texas at Austin. Her research and practice broadly engage with the concept of “possible worlds” at the intersection of philosophy and theatre performance. Her performance text often foregrounds the day-to-day embodied manifestations of the abstracted and the absent to disrupt the unproblematic imagination of the world as given or guaranteed. Her play, What I Lost, the Disappeared, and More, has been presented at Beijing Penghao Theatre. Ma has worked as an assistant producer for television commercials by brands including Hisense Group and Lufax Holding Ltd. She holds a B.A. in Philosophy and Dramatic Literature from New York University with a minor in creative writing.