SueAnn Shiah is a Taiwanese American producer, musician, filmmaker, writer, and emerging theologian specializing in identity formation, racial justice, gender, and sexuality. Her music is a combination of those interests spanning from experimental to communal. She directed and produced HuanDao, an independent film which premiered in Fall 2016, and produced the Huandao Documentary Soundtrack. She is the former lead singer and guitarist of the feminist punk band Betty and the Lumberjanes.
In her debut album, A Liturgy for the Perseverance of the Saints, she reclaims hymns for the modern age of faith, invoking the connection between those who suffer at present with the saints and ancestors that have suffered and come before. She takes themes and songs from historical Christianity, …
