December 2010
- Tidbit!
Randy Reyes named runner up Artist of the Year by the Minneapolis Star Tribute (posted 12/29/10)
- Tidbit!
Minneapolis, MN: Mu Performing Arts' production of Yellow Face (by David Henry Hwang) named one of the top five productions of 2010by Minneapolis Star Tribune. (posted 12/23/10)
- Tidbit!
New York, NY: Young Jean Lee's Theater Company Lear makes Time Out's Best of 2010 list! (posted 12/23/10)
- Tidbit!
New co-directors of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab are Michael Lew and Rehana Mirza! Congrats! (posted 12/23/10)
- Tidbit!
San Diego, CA
: Mo'olelo's production of Yellow Face(by David Henry Hwang) received four San Diego Drama Critics Circle nominations: Outstanding Lead Actor (Greg Watanabe), Featured Actor (Brian Bielawski), Direction (Seema Sueko ), and Dramatic Production! (posted 12/23/10).
- Tidbit!
New York, NY: Vampire Cowboy's Alice in Slasherland makes the top ten show of the Off Off Blogway list (posted 12/23/10)
- Los Angeles, CA: East West, OCA, et al strike deal with Comcast and NBC Universal (posted 12/21/10)
- Honolulu, HI: Historic Kumu Kahua faces closure (posted 12/21/10)
- New York, NY: Ping Chong seeks intern; deadline January 5, 2011 (psoted 12/21/10)
- Los Angeles, CA: East West offers Spring 2011 playwriting workshop (posted 12/21/10)
- Los Angeles, CA: East West presents world premiere of Wrinkles (posted 12/16/10)
- Los Angeles, CA: East West Players presents the touring production of Allos: The Story of Carlos Bulosan (posted 12/8/10)
- Honolulu, HI: Kumu Kahua premieres Da Kine Space (posted 12/8/10)
- Tidbit: David Hwang will receive an honorary degree this spring from LeHigh University in Pennsylvania. (posted 12/8/10)
- Toronto, Canada: fu-GEN Marketing and Development Director, Andrea Mapili, has decided to move on to pursue other endeavours. Byron Abalos, fu-GEN's Asian Canadian Community Developer, has decided to step down from his position to focus on his artistic pursuits. fu-GEN would like to welcome Derek Kwan as fu-GEN's new Marketing and Development Director and Jenna Rodgers who will be taking over as Asian Canadian Community Developer. (posted 12/8/10)
November 2010
October 2010
- Tidbit!
Felix Racelis' full-length one-act play, As Straw Before the Wind, won Fifth Place in the 79th Annual Writer's Digest Writing Competition, Stage Play Category. This is the compelling story of an ambitious Filipina nurse who survived the horrors of WWII.
- Tidbit!
The Village Voice names Vampire Cowboys Theatre one of the best theatres of New York! Looks good next to that Obie, doesn't it, Qui? (posted 10/26/10)
- Houston, TX: Shunya announces 2011 season (posted 10/15/10)
- Tidbit!
Write like a lady. Shunya Theatre (Houston, TX) invites you to join the conversation as we examine the role of the New Woman in society. Over the next six months, we will workshop short pieces and monologues that speak to the heart of things that matter. Selected pieces will be presented in a Houston showcase in the Summer of 2011. Feel bring to bring your mama and your mama's mama, cause you know they got some stories. We look forward to hearing from every color, creed, and raisin under the sun. No writing experience necessary. Just bring a pen. We got the paper.
If your grandmother had written history, how would the story go?
First meeting: Saturday, October 30th, 2010 1:00 - 4:00 PM 1111 Post Oak Blvd. Houston, TX 77056 (posted 10/15/10)
- Tidbit!
Pan Asian Rep (New York, NY) is pleased to introduce our newest Honorary Advisor, Lucy Liu, and our new Board Chair, Dale Leach! Lucy Liu made her professional theater debut with Pan Asian Rep in Fairy Bones, directed by Tina Chen in 1992, and has gone on to star in TV, film and most recently God of Carnage on Broadway. Dale Leach is a former United Nations Development Program official and has been a Pan Asian Rep trustee since 2008. Welcome and Congratulations to Lucy and Dale! (posted 10/15/10)
- Official Press release from CAATA (posted 10/15/10)
- Neat stuff released for the 2011 Asian American Theatre Conference!
To be held in LA, June 16 to 26, 2011!
Guidelines here!
Performance proposal forms here!
Conference breakout forms here!
And....
A thank you from CAATA (including shout outs to various CAATA friends, including...ahem...the Revue)
Posted 10/8/10
- Honolulu, HI: Kumu Kahua announces 2010 Playwriting Contest (posted 10/8/10)
- Los Angeles, CA: East West opens Crimes of the Heart (posted 10/8/10)
- Tidbit for New York
Registration open for Ernest Abuba’s Acting/Writing Lab
ACTING AND WRITING LAB Led by Ernest Abuba Original solo pieces developed by lab process for writers; monologues and scenes from classics and new plays for actors. Previous students have gone on to perform their works nationally, internationally, and in NYC at HERE, Chashama, PS122, and in Pan Asian Rep showcases and other venues. Wednesdays October 27 — January 5; No session Nov. 24 6:30pm — 9:30pm 520 Eighth Avenue, 3rd Floor (between 36th & 37th Streets) $350 for 10 sessions plus presentation plus lab presentation, open to the public Thu January 6 at 7:00pm, To enroll, contact Pan Asian Rep at 212-868-4030 or email info@panasianrep.org Previous Pan Asian Rep workshop students are eligi-ble for 20% off discount. Tuition payments are for all ten sessions and are non-refundable. (posted 10/1/10)
- Tidbit!
AAAA 28th Anniversary Benefit honors Tisa Chang!
Wednesday, November 3rd, 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm.
Tisa Chang is one of four honorees at Asian American Arts Alliance’s 28th Anniversary Benefit. Please join us to celebrate their contributions to the Asian American and New York City arts communities!
September 2010
- Reminder: October 1 is the deadline for the 2g 10 minute play contest! (posted 9/28/10)
- You Can Help Asian American Theatres win $250,000! (posted 8/27/10, reposted for September)
More details here.
- Tidbit!
OPM has once again been named an Audience Fave for their work at the San Francisco Fringe Festival (which, for some reason, didn't get up in the calendar....argh....)(posted 9/24/10)
- Honolulu, HI: Auditions set for Kumu Kahua's Da Kine Space (posted 9/18/10)
- Washington, DC: Studio Theatre presents Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven (posted 9/18/10)
- Honolulu, HI: Kumu Kahua announces The Great Kaua‘i Train Robbery (posted 9/18/10).
- Minneapolis, MN: Mu Performing Arts announces 2010-11 season (posted 9/10/11)
- Tidbit!
Michael Golamco's Year Zero was nominated for the Jeff Awards' Best New Play for Chicago, for its production by Victory Gardens Theatre. More details here. (posted 9/10/11)
- Los Angeles, CA: East West presents Mysterious Skin (posted 9/10/10)
- Honolulu, HI: Kumu Kahua offers playwriting intensive (posted 9/10/10)
- San Francisco, CA: Kularts presents 25th Anniversary Fall Season (posted 9/10/10)
- New York, NY: 2g announces 10 minute play contest, deadline October 1, 2010 (posted 9/10/10)
- Honolulu, HI: Kumu Kahua announces Halloween fundraiser (posted 9/10/10)
- Tidbit!
12th Annual Stories High Production presents Stories High DIRECTING WORKSHOP facilitated by John Caldon begins Sun. Oct. 3 AND Stories High ACTING WORKSHOP facilitated by Anthem Salgado
begins Wed. Sept. 29th
Learn the skills to ACT or DIRECT for a professional theatrical stage production in this low-cost 8-week workshop leading to the STORIES HIGH full-stage production at the NEW Bindlestiff Studio theater opening soon! To sign up: Email Susanna Yu at susie (AT) bindlestiffstudio.org by Friday, September 17th. In your email, please include:
Your Name
Your Email
Your Phone Number
The type of workshop you would like to enroll: ACTING or DIRECTING
Workshop Tuition is only $75 for the entire 8-weeks plus! Payment plans are available. For more information, contact Dianne Aquino Chui at 415-632-6133 or via email at dianne (AT) bindlestiffstudio.org
Stories High 12 is made possible by generous funding from the Zellerbach Family Foundation, the W & F Hewlett Foundation, and the W A Gerbode Foundation
For more information about BINDLESTIFF STUDIO and our upcoming productions, community events, workshops or if you would like to participate, volunteer, or make a donation, please visit our website: www.bindlestiffstudio.org
August 2010
- You Can Help Asian American Theatres win $250,000! (posted 8/27/10)
- Hollywood, CA: Ah, Marvel does right... (posted 8/27/10)
- Los Angeles, CA: East West Players seek marketing assistant; closes September 10 (posted 8/27/10)
- Check this video out:
Chopstix (posted 8/27/10)
- Los Angeles, CA: East West offers Fall 2010 Playwriting classes (posted 8/27/10)
- Hollywood, CA: Well, looks like the idiots are whitewashing movie roles again...(posted 8/20/10)
- Los Angeles, CA: CAPE to honor president of CBS Entertainment (posted 8/20/10)
- Honolulu, HI: Auditions set for Kumu Kahua's The Great Kaua‘i Train Robbery (posted 8/20/10)
- St. Paul, MN: API Center and Mu? (posted 8/20/10)
- Los Angeles, CA: CAPE Winners Announced for the 11th Annual New Writers Awards (posted 8/20/10)
- National! Take the Asian American Theatre Survey!
Deadline August 15!
The next National Asian American Theater Conference and Festival will be held in Los Angeles in June 2011. In an effort to program the next gathering around the needs of Asian American Theaters and Artists across the country, we are conducting a survey of the field. Please complete the surveys below by August 15 and forward the links to the other Asian American Theater practitioners and organizations in the U.S.
Data from these surveys will help make the case for much needed support during these rough economic times, as well as adequately represent the changing landscape of the American Performing Arts Scene. Below are two links to two different surveys. Please fill out BOTH surveys. The time you spend filling them out will be small, but the impact of your collective voice will be HUGE.
The CAATA survey is for the Consortium of Asian American Theater Artists (CAATA), producers of the National Asian American Theater Festival and Conference. We estimate this survey will take only FIVE minutes to complete. Your answers will assist in planning and provide estimated numbers for the potential size and impact of the next National Conference & Festival, which will ultimately assist greatly in fundraising.
The CAATA survey
This second survey is for the National Performance Network. The National Performance Network has received a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation to partner with CAATA and other national organizations to conduct an online survey to get current information on the impact of the economic recession on their work. We estimate that this survey should take fewer than FIVE minutes to complete.
The NPN survey
- Los Angeles, CA: Battle of the Pitches returns in fall (posted 8/14/10)
- Seattle, WA: Pratidhwani Presents Rabindra Nath Tagore's Chitrangada - The Warrior Princess Indian Dance Ballet Performs at Meydenbauer on August 21, 2010 (posted 8/14/10)
- San Diego, CA: SDAART presents BFE by Julia Cho (posted 8/14/10)
- Los Angeles, CA: East West opens season with Mysterious Skin (posted 8/14/10)
- Tidbit!
Edgar Mendoza awarded Asian American playwright award (posted 8/14/10) (hah. Maybe the link works now).
- New York, NY: Leviathan Labs presents Adventures of a Faux Designer Handbag (posted 8/7/10)
- More news tidbits! (From most New York)
• Carla Ching, artistic director at 2 g Productions is a LARK Theatre
2010-11 Playwrights' Workshop
• Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them by A. Rey Pamatmat has been selected to be presented in Victory Gardens Theater's IGNITION 2010 in Chicago.
• Microcrisis by Michael Lew and Lost Accents by Qui Nguyen were selected as Victory Gardens Theater's IGNITION 2010! finalists!
• Lloyd Suh's Happy End of The World is one of seven inaugural selections in the National Endowment for the Arts New Play Development Program at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. Projects will be presented in a rotating repertory beginning January 2011
- Honolulu, HI: Kumu Kahua announces 40th Anniversary season (posted 8/7/10)
- Asian American theatre artists win Princess Grace Awards
Tony Award-winning director Anna D. Shapiro is this year's recipient of the Princess Grace Statue Award, which includes a $25,000 gift and a Bronze Statue of Princess Grace created by Dutch artist Kees Verkade. The awards will be presented at the annual black-tie Princess Grace Awards Gala, held in the presence of HRH The Princess of Hanover, on November 10, at Cipriani 42nd Street.
Award winners in the Theater category include Andrea Assaf of Pangea World Theater, Charlotte Brathwaite of Yale School of Drama, Shana Cooper of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Tom Gleeson of Arden Theatre Company, Virginia Grise of Playwrights' Arena, and Adam Pinti of Arizona State University. In addition, A. Rey Pamatmat is this year's playwriting award winner.
Theater-related award winners also include Carlos Armesto, Jim Findlay, Michael John Garces, and Kara Manning.
Dance artists who are being honored include Craig Black, Ashley J. Jackson, Rachel Meyer, Andrea Parson, Brett Perry, and Andrew Wojtal. Choreography award winners include Kyle Abraham and Victor Quijada. (posted 8/6/10)
- Washington, DC: National JACL honors actress/playwright Christine Toy Johnson (posted 8/6/10)
- Philadelphia, PA: Jobs open at Asian Arts Initiative (posted 8/6/10)
- Minneapolis, MN: Mu Performing Arts starts arts blog (posted 8/6/10)
- MAPID announces finalists for the API TV Pilot Shootout
Judges have selected five finalists for the API TV Pilot Shootout. Writers submitted their TV Pilot pitch idea for an opportunity to pitch their project to a FOX TV executive. The top five finalists are: Amy Anderson “Amy Anderson Project” Jared Asato “Supreme” Benjamin Hsu “East Wilshire” William Lu “Showrunners” Roy Vongtama “The Zone” The judges were: Ed Moy, a screenwriter and journalist for LA Asian American Movie on Examiner.com; Kelly Yee, VP of Development @ RipMedia Group, a social media marketing firm specializing in entertainment; and Susan Stark, pop culture follower. The finalists will work with selected directors to make teasers for their projects. These teasers will be shown at ID Film Fest 10/10/10 at Japanese American National Museum. Along with film showings, other events during ID Film Fest include the Asian American Independent Features Conference, Filmmaker’s Crash Course Session, and Battle of the Pitches 2, a live screenwriting pitch competition. The API TV Pilot Shootout is sponsored by FOX Diversity and Final Draft. For more information about ID Film Fest and MAPID events, go to www.mapid.us; www.idfilmfest.org, and www.facebook.com/breakingthebow.
July 2010
- Minneapolis, MN: Mu seeks submissions to New Eyes Festival (posted 7/21/10)
- Los Angeles, CA East West presents One Night Only: Hip Hop and Hot (posted 7/21/10)
- Honolulu, HI: Kumu Kahua presents Ghosts in the Plauge Years (posted 7/18/10)
- Tidbit! New York, NY:
The Planet Connections Theatre Festivity, New York's premiere eco-friendly/socially-conscious theatre festival, invites you to celebrate the great talents and achievements of our amazing 2010 artists!
Outstanding Overall Production of an Entire Evening of One-Acts
Clandestine Produced by NewGround Theatre Collective benefiting Women In Need (WIN), Written by Glory Bowen, Ann Gillespie, Alex Goldberg, Duncan Pflaster, Nandita Shenoy and Jonathan Wallace; Directed by Luke Harlan, Cindy N. Kawasaki, Rachel Klein and Michael Schwartz.
Outstanding Playwriting Short Form (One Act)
Nandita Shenoy for “Clandestine” - Rules of Engagement
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