Natsu Onoda is the co-founder/ artistic director of a Chicago-based performance group Live Action Cartoonists, with whom she has written and directed numerous productions including Science Fiction (Taipei, 2002), are you my negative space? (Chicago, 2003) and Performance of Sleep in One Long Act Without Intermission (Chicago, 2005).  Her favorite set design credits include Romeo and Juliet at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Loss of Breath at Theatre X (Milwaukee), and Burnt Rice at Eslite (Taipei).  Her scholarly writing on comics have been published in International Journal of Comic Arts.  She holds a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from Northwestern University and a certificate in scenic painting from Yale School of Drama.