Wenxuan Xue (any/they) is a Boston-based theater and performance artist, curator, educator. They create ritual performances weaving in chanting, spoken-word, and communal participation towards collective remembrance. Their artistic practice is guided by grief work that disorients conditions of compulsory forgetting—of one’s own ancestral and spiritual lineages, queer kinships, and abundant relations to the earth. Their dissertation project, Ancestral Fabulation, tends to how Asian/American artists imagine their ancestral lineage through queer ritual performances.

Their artistic practice has been stewarded by ArtsEmerson, New England Foundation for the Arts, CHUANG Stage, Company One, Gung Ho Projects, The Lark Play Development Center, The Orchard Project, and Pao Arts Center. Their writing appears or is forthcoming in the Routledge anthology of Applied Theatre and Racial Justice and Tufts University Art Galleries’ “an archive and/or a repertoire” exhibition brochure.

They are a PhD Candidate in Theatre and Performance Studies at Tufts University.