Learn about the Revue
Some background on the Revue here. The Revue has tracked Asian American theatre across the world since the early 1990s.
Contact him at gwangung <at> u dot Washington dot edu
Roger Tang (he/him) is an award winning producer and playwright with a five decade long career. .
His play, She Devil of the China Seas, won the 2022-23 Best Original Production form Heilman and Haver. He has worked with Seattle’s 14/48 Festival, penned numerous sketches for the Pork Filled Players and many pieces for SIS Productions’ Revealed series of site-specific work.
As a producer, he introduced Northwest audiences to such writers as Qui Nguyen, Prince Gomolvilas, Carla Ching and Genny Lim and has produced numerous Northwest and world premieres, from Davide Henry Hwang’s Bondage and Yellow Face to Maggie Lee’s The Clockwork Professor, The Tumbleweed Zephyr and A Hand of Talons.
He has sat on the boards of ReAct Theatre and the Northwest Asian American Theatre (where he helped build the Theatre Off Jackson). Called the “Godfather of Asian American theatre” by A. Magazine, he is a recipient of a 2016 Equity Award from the Equity In the Entertainment Industry Symposium at Stanford University, and is Secretary of the Consortium of Asian American Theaters and Artists (CAATA). He is also is the Literary Manager for SIS Productions, the Executive Director of Pork Filled Productions.
More You Can Learn about the Revue
- A. Magazine interview from 1998;
part 1;
part 2. - Featurette from Angry Asian Man
- Celebrate Asian American Theatre: Calendar of Events
- Interview from The Stanford Daily
- Feature from Pushing the Pen
- Feature by Dan Bacalzo
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