[1][2] The Association focuses on scholarship, education, and exposure to these techniques through their conferences and lectures at Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) and their recurring official publication, the Asian Theatre Journal.
From 1969 to 1987, different titles and organization intentions were chosen following a unanimous 1969 split of the Afro-Asian Theatre Project into separate cultural organizations, structural changes and debt failures with their first sponsor, the American Educational Theatre Association (AETA), second sponsor American Theatre Association, and finally, their journey to ATHE sponsorship.
In 1971, Sam Leiter, professor at Brooklyn College-CUNY, became the next editor of the new version of the Association’s journal, the Asian Theatre Bulletin.
[6] The Bulletin struggled to survive during an upheaval of ATA sponsor funding during the Asian Theatre Program years.
The Founding Co-Editors of the Asian Theatre Journal were James R. Brandon and Elizabeth Wichmann-Walczak.