Directory – E-Mail Listservs Serving Asian American Drama People By Region
(last updated 3/2/2021; some of these are in various states of activity)
National:
aa-drama AT yahoogroups.com aa-drama list serve has now moved to aa-dram@groups.io
subscribe by emailing aa-drama+subscribe@groups.io
asianamericanplaywrights AT yahoogroups.com
aatheater AT yahoogroups.com
Regional:
- Bay Area
kswevents AT yahoogroups.com - Chicago:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/bubble-tea - Los Angeles:
AziatikArtsLA AT yahoogroups.com - Seattle
SAPAAG AT yahoogroups.com - Toronto
tape2tape AT yahoogroups.com
also,
South Asian Theatre Events - Washington, DC
APIAN-Online AT yahoogroups.com
Directory of Professional/Community Groups
Active Groups (By Region)
California, Northern
- Bindlestiff Studio (San Francisco, CA) Filipino Arts
- Chikahan Company (Bay Area, CA) Filipino theatre
- Community Asian Theatre of the Sierras (Nevada City, CA) (betcha you didn’t know there was Asian American theatre in the Sierras, did you?)
- Crowded Fire (San Francisco, CA)
- EnActe Arts (Bay Area, CA)
- Eth-Noh-Tec Asian American Storytellers
e-mail is ethnohtec (AT) aol.com - Ferocious Lotus (San Francisco, CA)
- NAATAK (Bay Area Indian Theater, Bay Area, CA)
- Sinag-tala Filipino Performing Arts Association (Sacramento, CA)
- Stanford Asian American Theatre Project (founded by David Henry Hwang)
- Theater of the Yugen (San Francisco)
- Youth for Asian Theatre (San Francisco, CA)
California, Southern
- Artists at Play (Los Angeles, CA)
- Asian Story Theater (San Diego, CA)
Contact Gingerlily Lowe - Cold Tofu (Los Angeles, CA); improv AA comedy, still kicking!
- East West Players (Los Angeles, CA)
- 18 Mighty Mountain Warriors (Los Angeles, CA)
- Great Leap (Los Angeles, CA)
- Here and Now (Southern CA) revised
- Lapu, the coyote that Cares, UCLA’s first Asian American theatre ensemble
lcc.staff@gmail.com
(well, they get the promotion from the college groups, seeing that they’ve lasted longer than some professional groups) - TEADA Productions/Kalo Projects (Los Angeles, CA Hawai’i group)
e-mail is at TEADA (AT) aol.com
Canada
- Assaulted Fish (Vancouver, BC)
- Cahoots Theatre Project (Toronto, Canada)
cahoots (AT) interlog.com - Chromatic Theatre (Calgary, Canada)
- fu-GEN Theatre Company (Toronto, Canada)
- Rasik Arts, South Asian Theatre (Toronto, Canada)
info@rasikperformingarts.com - Theatre Replacement (Vancouver, BC)
- Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre (Vancouver, BC)
Colorado
- Insight Colab Theatre (formerly Theatre Esprit Asia) (Boulder, CO)
Georgia
- East by Southeast (Atlanta, GA)
Hawaii
- Kuma Kahua Theatre (Hawaii)
Illinois
- CIRCAPintig (Chicago, IL) Filipino group
- Rasaka Theatre (Chicago, IL) The Midwest’s first South Asian American theatre group
- Silk Road Rising (formerly known as) Silk Road Theatre Project (Chicago, IL)
- Stir Friday Night (Chicago, IL)
Kansas
- Tradewinds Arts
(formerly Kansas City Pan Asian American Artist Group)
Maryland
- AAPI Artist Coalition DC (Washington, DC)
- Baltimore Asian Pasifika Arts Collective (Baltimore, MD)
Massachusetts
- Asian American Theatre Artists of Boston (Boston, MA)
- Chuang Stage (Boston, MA)
Minnesota
- Mixed Blood Theatre Company (Minneapolis)
- Mu Performing Arts (formerly Theater Mu) (Minneapolis)
- Pangea World Theater (Minneapolis, MN)
New York
- Asian American Performers Action Coalition (NYC, NY)
aapacnyc@gmail.com - Four Seas Players (New York City, NY)
- Leviathan Lab (New York City, NY)
- Ma-Yi Theatre Ensemble (New York City, NY)
- National Asian American Theatre Company (New York City, NY) new web site!
(NAATCO) - National Asian Artists Project (New York City, NY)
- Pan Asian Repertory Theatre (New York City, NY)
- Rising Circle (New York City, NY) devoted to actors of color
- Second Generation Productions (New York City, NY)
- Yangtze Repertory Theatre of America (New York City, NY)
Oregon
- MediaRites’ Theatre Diaspora (Portland, OR)
Pennsylvania
- Asian Arts Initiative (Philadelphia, PA)
- Philadelphia Asian Performing Artists (Philadelphia, PA)
Texas
- Lucky Chaos Theatre and Productions (Austin, TX)
- Shunya Theatre (Houston, TX) Indian America theatre
Washington
- Aono Jikken Ensemble (Seattle, WA)
- Kultura Arts (Seattle, WA)
- Pork Filled Players (Seattle, WA)
- Pratidhwani (Seattle, WA)
- REBATEnsemble Theatre (Seattle, WA)
- Repertory Actors Theatre (Seattle, WA)
- SIS Productions (Seattle, WA) Sex In Seattle and other productions
- Wing Luke Museum (Seattle, WA)
Directory – Active groups (alphabetically)
- API Artist Coalition DC (Washington, DC)
- Aono Jikken Ensemble (Seattle, WA)
- Artists at Play (Los Angeles, CA)
- Asian American Performers Action Coalition (NYC, NY)
aapacnyc@gmail.com - Asian Arts Initiative (Philadelphia, PA)
- Asian American Theatre Artists of Boston (Boston, MA)
- Asian Story Theater (San Diego, CA)
Contact Gingerlily Lowe
- Assaulted Fish (Vancouver, BC)
- Baltimore Asian Pasifika Arts Collective (Baltimore, MD)
- Bindlestiff Studio (San Francisco, CA) Filipino Arts
- Cahoots Theatre Project (Toronto, Canada)
cahoots@interlog.com - Chikahan Company (Bay Area, CA) Filipino theatre
- Chromatic Theatre (Calgary, Canada)
- Chuang Stage (Boston, MA)
- CIRCAPintig (Chicago, IL)
- Community Asian Theatre of the Sierras (Nevada City, CA) (betcha you didn’t know there was Asian American theatre in the Sierras, did you?)
- Cold Tofu (Los Angeles, CA); improv AA comedy, still kicking!
- Crowded Fire (San Francisco, CA)
- East West Players (Los Angeles)
- 18 Mighty Mountain Warriors (Los Angeles, CA)
- East by Southeast (Atlanta, GA)
- EnActe Arts (Bay Area, CA)
- Eth-Noh-Tec Asian American Storytellers
e-mail is ethnohtec@aol.com - Ferocious Lotus (San Francisco, CA)
- Four Seas Players (New York City, NY)
- fu-GEN Theatre Company (Toronto, Canada)
- Great Leap (LA)
- Here and Now (touring) revised
- Kultura Arts (Seattle, WA)
- Kuma Kahua Theatre (Hawaii)
- Insight Colab Theatre (formerly Theatre Esprit Asia) (Boulder, CO)
- Lapu, the coyote that Cares, UCLA’s first Asian American theatre ensemble
e-mail at lcc.staff@gmail.com - Leviathan Lab (New York City, NY)
- Lucky Chaos Theatre and Productions (Austin, TX)
- Ma-Yi Theatre Ensemble (New York City, NY)
Email: mayistage@aol.com - Mixed Blood Theatre Company (Minneapolis)
- NAATAK (Bay Area Indian Theater, Bay Area)
- National Asian American Theatre Company (New York City, NY)
(NAATCO) - National Asian Artists Project (New York City, NY)
- Pan Asian Repertory Theatre (New York City, NY)
- Pangea World Theater (Minneapolis, MN)
- Philadelphia Asian Performing Artists (Philadelphia, PA)
- Pork Filled Players /Pork Filled Productions (Seattle, WA)
- Pratidhwani (Seattle, WA)
- Rasaka Theatre (Chicago, IL) The Midwest’s first South Asian American theatre group
- Rasik Arts, South Asian Theatre (Toronto, Canada)
info@rasikperformingarts.com - REBATEnsemble Theatre (Seattle, WA)
- ReACT (Seattle)
- Rising Circle (New York City, NY) devoted to actors of color
- Second Generation Productions (New York City, NY)
- Shunya Theatre (Houston, TX) Indian America theatre
- Silk Road Rising (formerly known as) Silk Road Theatre Project (Chicago, IL)
- Sinag-tala Filipino Performing Arts Association (Sacramento, CA)
- SIS Productions (Seattle) Sex in Seattle continuing soap opera
- Stanford Asian American Theatre Project (founded by David Henry Hwang)
- Stir Friday Night (Chicago, IL)
- Teada Productions (LA)
- MediaRites’ Theatre Diaspora (Portland, OR)
- Theatre Mu (formerly Mu Performing Arts) (Minneapolis)
- Theatre Replacement (Vancouver, BC)
- Theater of the Yugen (San Francisco)
Eamail at INFO@THEATREOFYUGEN.ORG - Tradewinds Arts
(formerly Kansas City Pan Asian American Artist Group) - Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre (Vancouver, BC)
- Wing Luke Museum (Seattle, WA)
- Yangtze Repertory Theatre of America (New York City, NY)
- Youth for Asian Theatre (San Francisco, CA)
There is also the Singapore Repertory Theatre, who frequently works with and hires Asian American actors/writers/designers and produced a pre-Broadway run of David Henry Hwang’s Golden Child.
Groups Believed to be Inactive
- A Squared Theatre Workshop (Chicago, IL)
- Alter Ego Productions (New York City, NY)
- Angel Island Theatre Company (Chicago, IL)
- APASI, Asian Pacific American Scene, Inc. (Tampa, FL)
- APIAN (Washington, DC)
- Arizona Asian Theater Co. (Phoenix, AZ)
Alan Tang (no relation)(I think) artistic director - Asia On Stage (Boston)
E-mail at aoscci@aol.com or AsiaOnStage@yahoo.com - Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop (Canada)
- Asian American Dance Performances (San Francisco, CA)
- Asian American Repertory Theatre (San Diego, CA)
email at info (AT) asianamericanrep.org - Asian American Theater Company (San Francisco, CA)
- Asian American Theatre Project (Boston) Not currently active
- Asian Film & Theatre (Atlanta, GA)
- Asian Pacific Performing Artists Alliance (Las Vegas, NV)
- Asian Stories In American Theatre (Washington, DC)
- Asians Misbehavin’ (Philadelphia, PA) sketch/spoken word group
- Asiansploitation (Toronto, Canada)
- Awaaz (formerly known as ARTH) (Washington, DC) South Asian American theatre group based out of Georgetown University )
- Boston Asian American Theatre Collaborative (Boston, MA)
- Canasian Artists Group (Toronto, Canada)
- Club O’ Noodles (Southern CA) Vietnamese drama and sketch comedy.
- Cuchipinoy Productions (New York City, NY)
info at info@cuchipinoy.com - Contemporary Asian Theater Scene (San Jose, CA)
- Deep Yellow (Long Beach, CA)
- Desipina Productions (NYC, NY)
- Disha Theatre (New York City, NY) South Asian theatre group
- Diversity Players (Los Angeles, CA)
- Diwa Theatre Company (Dallas, TX)
- Due East (Chicago, IL)
- Everything You Wanted to Know About Asian Men*
* (but didn’t give a shit enough to ask)
LA-based Asian American men’s group (Dan Kwong) - eyeBLINK Entertainment (New York City, NY)
- Fluid Motion Theatre & Film (New York City, NY)
- Funky Fresh Pan-ethnic Asian Girls (touring)
an Asian American women’s theatre troupe - GAPA (Gay Asian Pacific Alliance) Theatre,
Based out of the Bay Area. See the GAPA web page. - GENSeng (Geneseo, NY)
- Hot Sauce Posse (Vancouver, BC) sketch comedy group
- Imerg Inc. (touring)
- Imua! Theatre Co. (New York City, NY)
- In Mixed Company, a performing arts group, New York City, NY
- i was born with two tongues (Chicago, IL)
- Inspire Entertainment (LA)
- Interactive Asian Contemporary Theatre (InterACT), Sacramento, CA
The group formerly known as Asian Pacific Theatre Project - Isangmahal (Seattle, WA) Spoken word
- JACCC (Japan America) Theatre (LA)
- Killer Geisha Go-Go Girls (New York City, NY)
- Kai Hsin Productions (San Francisco, CA)
Kaihsin (AT) aol.com or
azameworks (AT) earthlink.net - Krea (Bay Area, CA)
- LCC Productions (New York City, NY)
- lemon-ZA Theatre (Vancouver, BC)
- LocusArts (San Francisco, CA)
- Lodestone Theatre Ensemble (formerly known as Society of Heritage Performers) (Los Angeles, CA), founded by Soon Teck Oh
- Loose Screws (Hawaii)
- Loud Mouth Asian Babes (Toronto, Canada)
Also connected with Theatre Passe Muraille - MAD Playhouse Theater (New York, NY)
- Mango Tribe (it’s hard to explain….) (Chicago, IL)
- MAYA, South Asian theatre group (Toronto, Canada)
email at mayatheatre@hotmail.com - Mellow Yellow Theatre (New York City, NY)
- Mo’olelo Performing Arts Company (San Diego, CA)
- MuseFire Productions (Washington, DC)
- My Theatre Company Society (Vancouver, CA)
- New WORLD Theater (Amherst, MA)
- Northwest Asian American Theatre (Seattle,WA)
- OPM (Los Angeles, CA)
- Peeling (New York City, NY)
- Pom Siab Hmoob Theatre (Hmong Theatre) (Minneapolis)
- ProperGander (Los Angeles, CA)
- QBD Ink. (Washington, DC)
- Quantum Theatre (LA, CA) non-traditional casting company
- Rainier Valley Youth Theatre (Seattle, WA)
- R/Evolution Theatre Company (LA, CA)
- Revival Arts Productions (Hayward, CA) Filipino arts group
- Room to Improv (Los Angeles, CA) Improv comedy
- SALAAM (New York City, NY), South Asian theatre group
South Asian League of Artists in America - Scripting Aloud (Vancouver, BC)
Facebook page also available - Sining KilUSAn (Seattle)
- Slant (New York City, NY), New York City’s hit musical satire trio.
- Spook fish Theatre Company (New York City, NY)
- Sudden Enlightenment Theatre (New York City, NY) Korean American
- Taco Flavored Egg Rolls (Chicago, IL)
- Taste Better Wit (San Francisco)
- Teatro ng Tanan (Bay Area)
- TF Productions (Vancouver, BC)
- Tongue In a Mood (Bay Area)
- Tsunami Theatre (Washington, DC)
- YAWP (Young Asians With Power) (Chicago, IL)
Student Groups
In addition, there are a few student Asian American theatres that come up and down, rather periodically, depending on the inclinations of the current students:
- Asian American Cooperative Theatre (at Wesleyan)
Careful; the link and page and active, but there’s no follow up information there) - Asian American Drama Club, UC Santa Barbara
Student contacts: Keang Ung (685-7708)
Advisor: Jachison Chan (893-8573) - Asian American Playhouse (Cornell)
- Asian American Theatre Productions (Williams College)
- Descendants of the Monkey God (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor)
Current contact: Marvin Eng (313-741-9031) - Entity, Northwestern University (Deborah Hsiann Teng)
- GENseng, State University of New York at Geneseo, Geneseo, NY 14454
716/245-5806
Randy Kaplan, kaplanr@geneseo.edu - Lapu, the coyote that Cares, UCLA’s first Asian American theatre ensemble
e-mail at LCC@UCLA.EDU
- Moto Tsunami, University of Illinois
E-mail at e-kao@students.uiuc.edu - Theatre Rice, at UC Berkeley (well, it took you guys long enough….) (And you managed to stick Seattle in the Midwest….sigh….Cal weenies….)
Performance Artists
- The Chinese Clown Cabaret (touring)
- Denise Uyehara web site
- Noboku Miyamoto (LA)
- Michael Sakamoto (LA)
- Dan Kwong
Asian American Theatre Artists On The Web
- Ernest Abuba
- Keiko Agena (revised)
- Brenda Wong Aoki, storyteller
- Dan Bacalzo
Also contains reviews! - Jeannie Barroga
- Albert M. Chan
- Marty Chan
- Julia Cho (feature article from AsianWeek)
- Margaret Cho
her personal web log is available here - Kristi Chong
- Geeta Citygirl
- Mark Dascasco
- Bobby Del Rio
- Edu.’s
- Alvin Eng
- James Z. Feng
- Eileen Fogarty
- Cynthia Fujikawa
- Kip Fulbeck
- John Fukuda
- Michael Golamco
- Prince Gomolvilas
- Philip Kan Gotanda (article from the Seattle Times)
A more recent article from the Seattle Times
Another website on him (new!) - Amy Hill
Her personal home page - Gina Hiraizumi
- Velina Hasu Houston
Professional web page - David Henry Hwang has generated a number of web-sites, including:
A transcript of a talk given in April 1995 at MIT.
An analysis of M. Butterfly done as an honors thesis.
A feature on writing Trying to Find Chinatown.
A feature from Stagebill.
Online Guide to the David Henry Hwang Papers
Article for USC talk, 1998.
Feature from 1998 Tonys.
A new compilation of papers
and even more stuff - Ayumi Iizuka
- Christine Toy Johnson
- Mrinalini Kamrath (playwright)
- Sonoko Kawahara a director
- Rich Kiamco
- Chungmi Kim
- Daniel Dae Kim
- Tina Kim
- Chil Kong
- Camellia Koo
- Dan Kwong
- Flordelino Lagundino
- Edward Bok Lee
- James Lee
- Jared Lee
- Cherylene Lee
- Genny Lim
- Aurelio Locsin
- Sandra Tsing Loh
- Rob Lok
- Phyllis Look, a director
- Andy Lowe
- Camille Mana
- Ming Na (aka Ming Na Wen)
- Ron Nakahara, director
- Jude Narita
- Soon Teck Oh (a fan page)
- Henry Ong
- Jack Ong
- Mia Park
- Jennifer Paz (article from Toledo Blade on her and Miss Saigon)
New website - Sung Rno
His personal home page - Michael Sakamoto
- Canyon Sam
- Betty Shamieh
- Ian Shen
- Samuel Sheng
- Baphsi Sidhwa
- Diana Son
- Yuka Takara
- George Takei
- Francis Tanglao-Aguas
community resource on film and theatre, College of William & Mary - Lauren Tom
- Lucy Wang
- Elizabeth Wong
- James Wong
- Kristina Wong
- Lawrence Wong
- Russell Wong
- Wakako Yamauchi
- Derek Yee
- Lawrence Yep
- Chay Yew
- Phil Young
- Wally Zialcita
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