Wenxuan Xue is a Boston-based performance artist, dramaturg, curator, and educator with Chinese lineage from Shaanxi and Hebei. They create ritual performance for honoring ancestors of, by, and for femme, queer, and trans diasporic communities towards collective liberation. Their artistic process centers on nurturing and awakening “the inner child,” who always sees love, tenderness, and kindness in the darkest corners, who is curious, open, and playful about the world’s beautiful messes, and yet undisciplined to be ruled by norms of gender, border, and adulthood. They were a 2022-23 Volt Lab Dramaturg at Company One Theatre. They had the honor of working with ArtsEmerson, CHUANG Stage, Moonbox Productions, Gung Ho Projects, The Lark, and New York Stage and Film. They have a BA from Wesleyan University and MA from Tufts University. Currently, they are a PhD candidate and instructor in Theater & Performance Studies at Tufts University.