May 2007

• Note:
  Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre is please to announce the Winners to Etch-YOUR-Sketch SKETCHOFF!#$%!! - 8th Annual Asian Comedy Night
  1st Place and taking home the coveted Vancouver Rice Bowl is
  BANANADRAMA with Michelle Chen, Matt Yoshihazu Gates, Jennifer Li, Angela Liu, and Daniel Sing.
  2nd Place is SFUU MAN CHU with Duran Cruickshank, Nicole Deslauriers, Josette Jorge, Ric Lee, Ashley McMullen, Nigel Wakita, and Fiona Walsh. 3rd Place is DISORIENTAL with Brandon Barton, Edwina Cheer, and Kristal Yee. The PEOPLE's CHOYS AWARD went to DISORIENTAL with Brandon Barton, Edwina Cheer, and Kristal Yee.
• SF's AATC offering classes (posted 5/30/07)
• Podcast: An unknown Asian American TV pioneer and the San Diego Chicken (posted 5/28/07)
• Minneapolis' Mu announces 2007-08 season (posted 5/28/07)
• SIS Productions presents premiere of Sex in Seattle Episode 14! (posted 5/15/07)
• Kumu Kahua offers classes for Summer 2007 (posted 5/22/07)
• AZN announces Asian Excellence Award winners (posted 5/17/07)
• Documentary on 18 Mighty Mountain Warriors wins Emmy (posted 5/15/07)
• Jukebox Stories opens Ford series (posted 5/13/07)
• East West offers Creative Play for Youth (posted 5/13/07)
• East West announces 42nd Anniversary Season (posted 5/12/07)
• Yangtze Repertory Theatre presents Love in Tears & Laughter (posted 5/12/07)
• Emerging Artists Theatre Calls for One Acts (posted 5/12/07)
• Philadelphia's Asian Arts Initiative announces location of new home (posted 5/9/07)
• Call for plays - 2007 New Plays of Merit Playwriting Contest (posted 5/7/07)
• New play collection published (posted 5/7/07).
• AZN presents Asian Excellence Awards (posted 5/7/07).
• Note! Silk Road Theatre wins award!
  On Thursday, April 26, 2007, the Asian American Institute presented its Milestone Makers Award to Silk Road Theatre Project, in recognition of Silk Road's contributions to the Asian American community and to Asian American arts. Milestone Makers are distinguished for combating stereotypes of Asians and Asian Americans, and for advancing the overall profile of Asian Pacific communities. The award was presented to company co-founders Malik Gillani and Jamil Khoury at the Asian American Institute's 15th Anniversary Gala Benefit held at the Mid-America Club.

April 2007

• Mu Performing Arts offers Taiko Lab May 07 (posted 4/27/07)
• Company of Angels offers Intercultural Collisions workshop (posted 4/27/07)
• East West announces slate of personalities for 41st Anniversary dinner (posted 4/25/07)
• Oh, yes...the National Asian American Theatre Festival has posted the list of artists and groups appearing at the first Festival in June (posted 4/15/07)
• Seeking SE Asian artists (Southern CA) (posted 4/15/07)
• Kumu Kahua presents Teacher, Teacher (posted 4/15/07)
• East West offers Summer Intensive (posted 4/15/07)
• Asian American playwrights headline Chicago's Her Rah! (posted 04/05/07)
• Oh, by the way....that festival needs actors...
  Note that this is for Chicago area actors only...
  THE INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR WOMEN PLAYWRIGHTS is still accepting headshots/resumes for HER-RAH! 2007: A Festival of the World's Best Women Playwrights in June. Especially seeking ASIAN-AMERICAN actors of all ages/types; LATINA actresses all ages/types; FILIPINO actors/actresses; AFRICAN-AMERICAN actors/actresses of all ages/types; and SENIOR CITIZEN (age 50+) actors/actresses. The selected plays all call for very diverse casts!
  Mail headshots (do not email them) to: ICWP, c/o Jill Elaine Hughes, 55 South Vail Ave #1114, Arlington Heights, IL 60005. There is pay. No calls.
• Crossing East wins Peabody Award (posted 04/05/07)
• Pan Asian presents Tea (30th Season, part of NAATF) (posted 04/05/07)

March 2007

Contest for playwrights, deadline June 30, 2007 (posted 3/30/07)

AATC presents Spring Classes (posted 3/30/07)

LA's Ford Amphitheatre presents 2007 Season (posted 3/30/07)

Open Call! Asian Americans needed for Ten, new project involving David Henry Hwang, Julia Cho, Michael Golamco and others (posted 3/26/07)

Note: Kristina Wong, Asian American performance artists appears in this month's Vogue Knitting (p. 44?) (posted 3/26/07)

Asian American theatres heavily involved in 365 Plays in 365 Days (posted 3/26/07)

Note: East West Players Announces the 41st Anniversary Honorees:
Visionary Awards
Daniel Dae Kim - "LOST"
S. Mark Taper Foundation - (Accepting) Executive Director, Ray Reisler
Rae Creevey Award
Mark Jue - Volunteer Extraordinaire
Breakout Performance
Masi Oka - "HEROES"
with Mistress of Ceremonies
Tamlyn Tomita

Partial lineup announced for National Asian American Theatre Festival (posted 3/14/07)

Lodestone premieres The Mikado Project (posted 3/14/07)

Jobs available at TeAda (posted 3/19/07)

Pork Filled Players presents Big Hunk O' Burnin' Love, a NW premiere (posted 2/1/07)


• Lim leaves SF's AATC (posted 3/13/07)
• CAPE Contest for Asian American screenwriters (posted 3/13/07)
• Auditions: For Kumu Kahua Theatre, Honolulu for Teacher, Teacher (posted 3/13/07)
• Job Opening: San Francisco Art Commission (posted 3/13/07)
• AATC, Aurorae Khoo receive grant (posted 3/13/07)
• Call for Actors in Seattle for Breathing Space (posted 3/13/07)
• Desipina Celebrates fifth year of Seven.11 Convenience Theatre (posted 3/12/07)
• East West announces 2007 Visionary dinner (posted 3/2/07)
• East West opens Spring 2007 Actors' Conservatory (posted 3/2/07)
• East West presents I Land (posted 3/2/07)

February 2007

• Casting call: The Best Man, southern CA (posted 2/21/07)
• Chicago's CIRCA presents Open Wound (posted 2/21/07)
• Theatre Arts Japan presents American review (posted 2/19/07)
• Rick Shiomi's views on Asian American theatre and the future (linked 2/15/07)
  part of a series on the Nontraditional Casting Project website.
• Call for women playwrights in Chicago
  THE INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR WOMEN PLAYWRIGHTS (ICWP) is seeking submissions from female playwrights from around the world for CHICAGO
  HER-RAH! 2007. This high-profile four-day event will present the
  world's best, production-ready plays by women to Chicago audiences and
  literary managers/artistic directors from theaters around the Midwest.
  For complete guidelines, downloadable submission application, and event
  information, visit www.internationalwomenplaywrights.org. There is pay.
  Women playwrights only; all submitters must join ICWP. No calls. (posted 2/15/07)
• Kumu Kahua presents K?MAU (posted 2/15/07)
• Open Call for NYC APA Heritage Festival (posted 2/9/07)

January 2007

• Red Doors released to DVD (received 1/31/07)
• Casting Call: A Language Of Their Own, Southern California (posted 1/27/07)
• Audition: Projekt NewSpeak (Southern California) (posted 1/27/07)
• AATC presents TeleMongol (posted 1/27/07)
• SF's AATC lands grant (posted 1/27/07)
• Aging is Not for Sissies...! returns to Hawaii's Kumu Kahua (posted 1/27/07)
• A double homecoming for Hwang, Yellow Face on the road at Stanford (posted 1/23/07)
• Call for plays in Britain
  Note: Deadline for this contest has passed (posted 1/23/07)
• East West offers spring playwrighting classes (posted 1/13/07)
• Creator of Scooby-Doo, Iwao Takamoto, dies. See this article for obituary (posted 1/12/07)
• Southern California's Room to Improv expands (posted 1/12/07)
• San Francisco's Bindlestiff Studio presents Love Edition 2 (posted 1/12/07)
• Minneapolis' Mu debuts New Performance Program (posted 1/12/07)
• Desipina celebrates 5th Anniversary (posted 1/7/07)
• Kristina Wong presents Performance Workshop in LA (posted 1/7/07)