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Ralph B. Peña
Ralph B. Peña is a Filipino American playwright, theater director, actor, and arts administrator. He is a founding member and the Producing Artistic Director of Ma-Yi Theater Company, a Drama Desk and Obie Award–winning Asian American theater group based in New York City. Peña is known for developing new works by Asian American playwrights and directing acclaimed productions such as ''Sumo'', ''The Chinese Lady'', ''The Wong Kids in the Secret of the Space Chupacabra GO!'', and ''Among the Dead''. Early life and activism Peña was born in Manila, Philippines. He studied at the University of the Philippines, where he became involved in political street theater during the martial law era under President Ferdinand Marcos. He joined the guerrilla performance group Bodabil, later known as U.P. Peryante, led by Chris Millado. The troupe staged satirical performances to protest political repression. Peña emigrated to the United States in 1984 and settled in New York City. In 1989, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ma-Yi Theater Company
Ma-Yi Theater Company is a professional, not-for-profit, Obie Award and Drama Desk Award-winning theater company based in New York City that was founded in 1989. Ma-Yi Theater is headed by executive director Jorge Ortoll and artistic director Ralph Peña. Some of its recent notable productions include: * Lonnie Carter's '' The Romance of Magno Rubio'' * Ralph Pena's ''Flipzoids'' * Qui Nguyen's ''Soul Samurai'' and ''Agent G''. *Michi Barall's ''Rescue Me: A postmodern classic with snacks'' * Michael Lew's ''Microcrisis'', ''Bike America'' and ''Teenage Dick.'' *Carla Ching's ''Sugar House'' *Jason Kim, Helen Park, and Max Vernon's ''KPOP,'' produced with Ars Nova and Woodshed Collective. *Lloyd Suh's ''Children of Vonderly'', ''American Hwangap,'' co-produced with The Play Company, ''Jesus in India,'' and ''The Chinese Lady.'' * Hansol Jung's '' Among the Dead'' In 2006, Ma-Yi Theater Company's production of Warren Leight's ''No Foreigners Beyond This Point'' received a Drama D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Lew
Michael (Mike) Lew is a Chinese-American playwright best known for his works ''Teenage Dick,'' and '' Tiger Style!.'' He earned a B.A. at Yale University in 2003, double majoring in Theatre (directing) and English (writing), then proceeded to get his artist diploma in playwriting at the Juilliard school in 2003. He is the co-director of Ma-Yi Writers Lab, the largest theatre company in the United States that aims to help Asian American writers produce and develop plays, and is on a 3-year fellowship at Ma-Yi through the Mellon Foundation. Early life As a child, Lew was not a huge fan of theatre, claiming in an interview with ''The Dramatist'' that he in fact "associated theatre with shame" for the longest time. Some of his early experiences with theatre happened in college, where he started watching independent student theatre productions at his school on weekends, and fell in love with the community of people that worked together. While he was working as an assistant director of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rehana Lew Mirza
Rehana may refer to: * Rehana (actress), Indian and Pakistani film actress * Sheikh Rehana, Bangladeshi politician * Rehana, Haripur, a village and union council in Pakistan * Reyhaneh or Rehāna, a village in Abdoliyeh-ye Gharbi Rural District, Iran * Rehana Khatoon, an Indian scholar See also *Rihanna (other) *Rehan (other) *Reyhan (other) Reyhan may refer to: Places * Al Rihan, a small village in Lebanon, also called Rihan, on a mountain called Al Rehan * Um ar-Rehan, a Palestinian village * Reihan, an Israeli settlement * Reyhan-e Olya, a village in Khomeyn County, Markazi Pro ... {{disambiguation Indian feminine given names Feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qui Nguyen
Qui Nguyen is a Vietnamese playwright, screenwriter and director. He is best known for his plays '' She Kills Monsters'' and ''Vietgone''. He is also known for writing ''Raya and the Last Dragon'' and '' Strange World''. Career He is a playwright, TV writer and screenwriter, and also an artistic director of the Obie Award and Caffe Cino Award winning Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company, whose productions, penned and choreographed by Nguyen, have performed to sold-out audiences at the New York International Fringe Festival, been published nationally in ''Plays and Playwrights 2005,'' enjoyed extended runs throughout the nation, and have been nominated for and received awards in movement and fight direction. In 2019 he won the Porter Prize. Nguyen’s plays include ''Vietgone'', ''Soul Samurai'', ''The Inexplicable Redemption of Agent G'', ''Alice in Slasherland'', ''Fight Girl Battle World'', ''Krunk Fu Battle Battle'', '' She Kills Monsters'', ''Trial By Water'', ''Living Dead ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lauren Yee
Lauren Yee ( zh, 余秀菊) is an American playwright. Early life and education Yee was born and raised in San Francisco, California. She graduated from Lowell High School in 2003. Yee graduated from Yale University in 2007, majoring in English and Theatre Arts. She then attended University of California, San Diego's MFA playwriting program. Career Yee is a member of the Ma-Yi Writers’ Lab, a Playwrights’ Center Core Writer, And has worked under commission from the Goodman Theatre, Lincoln Center, and Mixed Blood. Personal life Yee met an attorney named Zachary Zwillinger at Yale. The couple later married at San Francisco in September 2012. Plays *''Ching Chong Chinaman'' (Berkeley Impact Theatre) *''Crevice'' (Impact Theatre) *''The Tiger Among Us'' (January - February 2013, Mu Performing Arts (Minneapolis) *''The Hatmakers Wife'' (developed at PlayPenn New Play Conference in 2011; August 27, 2013 - September 21, 2013, Off-Broadway The Playwrights Realm) *''Sams ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lloyd Suh
Lloyd Suh is an American playwright and the recipient of the 2019 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts in theatre. He is originally from Indianapolis, Indiana. Career His plays include: '' The Chinese Lady', '' The Far Country'', Charles Francis Chan Jr's Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery, Franklinland, the Wong Kids in the Secret of the Space Chupacabra Go!, American Hwangap, Jesus in India,'' ''Great Wall Story'' and others. These plays have been performed in the United States with Ma-Yi, the Play Company, Ensemble Studio Theatre The Ensemble Studio Theatre (EST) is a non-profit membership-based developmental theatre located in Hell's Kitchen, New York City. It has a dual mission of nurturing individual theatre artists and developing new American plays. Overview The E ..., La Mama ETC, Magic Theatre and the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Denver Center Theatre Company. They have been performed internationally at the Cultural Center of the Philippines in Manila and with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asian-American Theatre
Asian American theatre refers to theatre written, directed or acted by Asian Americans. From initial efforts by four theatre companies in the 1960s, Asian-American theatre has grown to around forty groups today. Early productions often had Asian themes or settings; and "yellowface" was a common medium for displaying the perceived exoticism of the East in American performance. With the growing establishment of second-generation Asian-Americans in the 21st century, it is becoming more common today to see Asian-Americans in roles that defy historical stereotypes in the United States. Background Asian-American theatre emerged in the 1960s and the 1970s with the foundation of four theatre companies: East West Players in Los Angeles, Asian American Theatre Workshop (later renamed Asian American Theater Company) in San Francisco, Theatrical Ensemble of Asians (later renamed Northwest Asian American Theatre) in Seattle, and Pan Asian Repertory Theatre in New York City. The Northwe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Henry Hwang
David Henry Hwang (born August 11, 1957) is an American playwright, librettist, screenwriter, and theater professor at Columbia University in New York City. He has won three Obie Awards for his plays '' FOB'', '' Golden Child'', and '' Yellow Face''. He has one Tony Award ('' M. Butterfly'') and two other nominations (''Golden Child'' and ''Flower Drum Song''). Three of his works (''M. Butterfly'', ''Yellow Face'', and ''Soft Power'') have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Early life He was born in 1957 in Los Angeles, California, to Henry Yuan Hwang, the founder of Far East National Bank, and Dorothy Hwang, a piano teacher. The oldest of three children, he has two younger sisters. He received a bachelor's degree in English from Stanford University in 1979 and attended the Yale School of Drama between 1980 and 1981, taking literature classes. He left once workshopping of new plays began, since he already had a play being produced in New York. His first play was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chay Yew
Chay Yew () is a playwright and stage director who was born in Singapore. He was artistic director of the Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago from 2011 to 2020. Career Chay Yew's breakthrough work came from his early plays ''Porcelain'' and ''A Language of Their Own'', which, along with ''Wonderland'', make up what Yew calls the Whitelands Trilogy. Other plays include ''As if He Hears''; ''Red''; ''A Beautiful Country''; ''Question 27, Question 28''; ''A Distant Shore''; ''Vivien and the Shadows';'' and ''Visible Cities''. His adaptations include ''A Winter People'' (based on Anton Chekhov's ''The Cherry Orchard''); Federico García Lorca's ''The House of Bernarda Alba''.; Ibsen's ''Dollhouse;'' and ''The House of Baluyot,'' after Aeschylus' ''Oresteia.'' In 1989, the government in Singapore banned his first play ''As If He Hears'' because the gay character acted "too sympathetic and too straight-looking". Yew's plays appear in numerous anthologies, and two collections of his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Dramatists And Playwrights
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