December 2007
- Doris Dukes Fdn. grant supports National Asian American Theatre Project (posted 12/24/07)
- Asian Arts Initiative seeks Program Manager in Philly (posted 12/20/07)
- Note!
Pratidhwani - A Seattle area based non-profit organization of South Asian performing artists has launched a new initiative to encourage and empower aspiring writers working on South Asian themes under its Drama Wing. More details available at http://seattledesinet.com/drupal/writersforum (posted 12/13/07) - Mu Presents new works (posted 12/7/07)
- Call for actors in New York - Cowboy Vampire Theatre (posted 12/7/07)
- Auditions in Hawaii
Director Kati Kuroda is seeking 5 actors for Kumu Kahua Theatre’s production of Lonnie Carter’s drama The Romance of Magno Rubio, opening in March 2008. Roles are available for 5 Filipino males between their 20’s to early 40’s. Auditions will be held at The Academy of Film & Television, 1174 Waimanu Street, Suite A (behind Tahiti Imports) on Saturday, December 15 from noon to 2pm, and Sunday, December 16 from 6pm to 9pm. The entrance into the Academy is at the end of the walkway on the Ewa side of Tahiti Imports. For a map, visit www.AmericanFilmActor.com and click on the “Map” link. Auditioners should come early and stay for the whole time. Scripts are available for loan with a $10 cash deposit at Kumu Kahua Theatre. Call 536-4222 for more information. (posted 12/7/07) - East West presents Reincarnations (posted 12/7/07)
- Call for Proposals! For the next Asian American Theatre Conference! Due Dec. 15! (posted 12/2/07)
November 2007
- Call for actors, Tampa, FL, December 1 audition (posted 11/16/07)
- Deadline November 12 Casting Notice for East West Players (posted 11/10/07)
- Call for plays! Thumping Claw series! (posted 11/10/07)
- Call for plays! 2g! (posted 11/10/07)
- Note!
Los Angeles-based Cold Tofu Improv is fighting to be named My Fox LA's "Best Comedy Improv Group." Cold Tofu was founded in 1981 and was the nation's first Asian American improv group. Click on the following link and VOTING FOR COLD TOFU! (posted 11/10/07)
October 2007
- PFP Celebrates 10th Season with Lard & Order: Pork Filled Intent
(posted 9/14/07) - Casting call, remake The Day the Earth Stood Still (Asian male 70+) (posted 10/31/07)
- Meritage Press releases Stage Presence, on Filipino American theatre artists (posted 10/22/07).
- Call for entries 2007-08 Audio Drama Script Competition
Deadline: Nov. 15 (postmark)
The National Audio Theatre Festivals seek entries for the 2007-08 Audio Drama Script Competition. Audio theatre is a unique and collaborative medium. Like any good theatre, audio (or radio) theatre always begins with a well-written, perceptive, entertaining script. Use of sound and appropriateness to the medium is considered. Maximum length for this contest is 30 minutes. Prizes: $800 split between 2 - 4 authors and free workshop production participation. Prize winners and honorable mentions will be published in the annual NATF Scriptbook. For submission rules, http://www.natf.org/script2008_rules.html. - Desipina calls for submissions for 6th Seven.11 Convenience Theatre (posted 10/12/07)
- East West presents Dawn's Light: The Journey of Gordon Hirabayashi (posted 10/12/07)
- Pan Asian offers Winter Workshop (posted 10/5/07)
- Kumu Kahua presents Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl’s Ola N? Iwi (posted 10/6/07)
- Note: Jennifer Liu has left her position as Artistic Director/Executive Producer of Chicago's Stir-Friday Night. There is no immediate word of a successor. (posted 10/6/07)
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign seeks head of theatre department (posted 10/6/07)
- Small Pond presents Always Family: An Asian American Tale (posted 10/6/07)
September 2007
- Pan Asian (NYC) presents workshop (posted 9/26/07)
- Two East West productions snag Ovation Award nominees (posted 9/26/07)
- New MacAthur Genius grant to Shen Wei (posted 9/26/07)
- Kuma Kahua presents Ola (posted 9/26/07)
- Innocent When You Dream feature (posted 9/26/07)
- Chicago's dueEast presents Trial by Water (posted 9/20/07)
- Kumu Kahua sets auditions for Pele (posted 9/20/07)
- Seattle's SIS Productions announces Insatiable: Seattle's 2nd Asian American Playwright's Festival (posted 9/10/07)
- Faculty position at USF (posted 9/1/07)
August 2007
- Kumu Kahua announces 2007 Playwrighting Contest (8/31/07)
- East West presents Durango (posted 8/31/07)
- Ma-Yi premieres The Children of Vonderly (posted 8/31/07)
- Minnesota's Mu calls for plays; deadline October 12 (posted 8/31/07)
- San Diego's Asian Story Theatre presents Dear Miss Breed (posted 8/25/07)
- Call for Asian male actor, 40+, audition Aug 25 (posted 8/22/07)
- NAATCO presents Blind Mouth Singing (posted 8/18/07)
- Pan Asian offers Master Classes in Kabuki (posted 8/18/07)
- Kumu Kahua offers tickets online (posted 8/10/07)
- Bindlestiff offers Stories High workshop (posted 8/10/07)
- Mirrors Remembered published (posted 8/10/07)
- Note:
Next Big Bang 2006 report released; details to come - Senior Filipino Theatre writer wins grant (posted 8/3/07)
- East West offers Fall Conservatory for actors (posted 8/1/07)
- Casting Call for East West's Dawn's Light (posted 8/1/07)
- East West seeks Marketing Assistant (posted 8/1/07)
July 2007
- Kumu Kahua celebrates 37th season (posted 7/31/07)
- Seattle's SIS presents Sex in Seattle, Episode 15 (posted 7/31/07)
- East West presents ACTS Orientation, August 7 (posted 7/31/07)
- Timescape presents Innocent When You Dream (posted 7/28/07)
- SF's AATC presents professional workshops in San Jose (posted 7/28/07)
- Lodestone presents The Trojan Women (posted 7/28/07)
- Note!
mfaactor.com-- a new resource for those applying to graduate acting programs started by Korean-American actor and playwright Jiehae Park. Site includes articles about deciding to apply, auditions, comparisons of top 10 schools, and links to audition coaches who are graduates of top programs including NYU/Tisch, UCSD/La Jolla Playhouse,ART/Harvard, and more. (posted 7/28/07) - Emerging Artists Theatre calls for submissions (posted 7/28/07)
- Diverse City presents Snapshots (posted 7/28/07)
- Ford Theatre presents OPM (posted 7/23/07)
- ART 168 presents Thumping Claw One Act Series (posted 7/19/07)
- East West Offers Fall Playwrighting Seminars (posted 7/12/07)
- Kumu Kahua opens 37th Season with Ala Wai (posted 7/12/07)
- ABC Offers Talent Showcase for NYActors (posted 7/10/07)
- 5th Annual APIA Spoken Word Summit in NYC (posted 7/7/07)
- In honor of today's political news.... (July 2, 2007)
- Note: Michael Golamco's Cowboy Versus Samuari gets a mention in a review of New Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2006 by Library Journal Review:
- Lepidus brings forth the ninth volume of Smith & Kraus's "Best Plays" series, and it's mighty fine. The seven works are all full-length plays, and every one of them deserves production-from university theater to community theater to professional companies. The common theme among these works seems to be outsiders seeking love. Michael Golamco's Cowboy Versus Samurai , about three (and the only) Asians in a Wyoming town, speaks at operatic intensity to the "only" out there, wherever they are.
- Lepidus brings forth the ninth volume of Smith & Kraus's "Best Plays" series, and it's mighty fine. The seven works are all full-length plays, and every one of them deserves production-from university theater to community theater to professional companies. The common theme among these works seems to be outsiders seeking love. Michael Golamco's Cowboy Versus Samurai , about three (and the only) Asians in a Wyoming town, speaks at operatic intensity to the "only" out there, wherever they are.
- East West offering ACTS memberships (posted 7/3/07)
- New Merit deadline extended (posted 7/3/07)
- East West offers Fall Playwriting workshops (posted 7/3/07)
- Note: On June 26th, Minnesota's Pangea World Theater presented Journey to Safety as part of Milestones and Momentum: Strengthening Community Responses to Violence Against Women, a historic, First National Conference of Arrest Grantees sponsored by the Battered Women's Justice Project. This was an exciting opportunity to perform, present Journey to Safety training materials, and be a part of a vision to end violence against women.
June 2007
- Note: Temporary address for Philadelphia's Asian Arts Initiative:
105 N. Watts Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
(215) 557-0455
info (AT) asianartsinitiative.org
A more permanent address, hopefully, by September!
- LA's Lodestone presents The Trojan Women (posted 6/29/07)
- Vancouver's VACT presents Cowboy Versus Samurai (posted 6/24/07)
- ART168 Announces Trio of one acts in August (posted 6/24/07)
- Note: Seattle's SIS Productions has been named theatre company in residence at the Richard Hugo House for the next two years.
- Call for NYC Asian American actors, Auditions will be held June 20th & 21st by appointment only (posted 6/20/07)
- Ma-Yi Writers Lab crashes the Festival (posted 6/17/07)
- Ma-Yi calls for NYC actors for 365 Plays (posted 6/16/07)
- Mu presents Passing the Beat (posted 6/15/07)
- Pan Asian revives Tiger
Pan Asian Repertory Theatre
Tisa Chang, Artistic Producing DirectorA special showcase presentation of
CARRY THE TIGER TO THE MOUNTAIN
By Cherylene Lee
Directed by Ron Nakahara
At the newly renovated, fully accessible
West End Theatre, 263 W 86th Street,
between Broadway and West End AvenueCast: Bonnie Black, John Daggett, John FitzGibbon, Diana K. Lee, Jackson Loo, Tom Matsusaka, Eileen Rivera, William Ryall, and Robert Wedig
With Wai Ching Ho as Lily ChinJune 20, 1982, Vincent Chin was beaten to death outside a Detroit bar by two unemployed autoworkers. The men were fined $3780. This incident and its aftermath are lyrically recreated with compassion, grace and humor in Cherylene Lee’s classic play. Named for a tai-chi movement, CARRY THE TIGER TO THE MOUNTAIN integrates the Chinese meditative art of continuous movement as an illustration of the characters’ and community’s response to injustice.
All tickets $18, call OvationTix: 212-352-3101 or visit www.theatermania.com - More Coverage and video on the National Asian American Theatre Festival (posted 6/15/07)
- New York's Fluid Motion presents Golden Fleece Project (posted 6/15/07)
- Kumu Kahua brings back Kamau (posted (6/15/07)
- Teada (Los Angeles, CA) Calls for Artists (posted 06/15/07)
- Note! Dmae Roberts and her NPR series, Crossing East, recently won the Suzanne Ahn Award for Civil Rights and Social Justice for Asian Americans presented by the Asian American Journalists Association. The award is named in honor of the late Dr. Ahn, a Korean American who was raised in Arkansas and Texas who devoted her life to promoting civil rights and social justice for all Americans, especially women and Asian Americans (posted 6/15/07).
- Impressions from the First National Asian American Theatre Festival (posted 6/14/07)
Also! Check out the blogs of attending artists, such as Refugee Nation! - fu-Gen's Singkil wins seven Dora nominations in Toronto (posted 6/10/07)
- Fluid Motion celebrates 5th Anniversary (posted 6/10/07)
- ABC/Disney Writing Fellowship Deadline (July 1) approaches (posted 6/8/07)
- San Diego's Mo`olelo Performing Arts Company announces Green Policy (posted 6/8/07)
- East West Players: Casting notice for Durango (posted 6/8/07)
- Ma-Yi seeks writers for Theatre Lab (posted 06/05/07)
- Chance Theatre (Orange County, CA) calls for plays, deadline June 15, 2007 (posted 6/5/07)
- Seattle's Theatre Off Jackson debuts opera (posted 06/02/07)
