News

June 2012

  • Seattle, WA: Pork Filled Players present Porktacular! (posted 6/14/12)
  • Playwright Seeks Composer!
    Playwright is looking to commission a composer and/or lyricist of Korean origin to write the music and lyrics for an English language musical comedy. Story style is a vaudeville romp with a darker toned character study set in 1950s America. Versatility (jazz, ballads, comedy songs) a plus. Please contact prudencekahn^(AT)^yahoo.com for more information. (posted 6/14/12)
  • Tidbit:
    Vancouver, BC: VACT Lab Finalists announced: JJ Lee, Minh Ly and Loretta Seto! Each Finalist will be working with one of three dramaturges: CE Gatchalian, Dr. Ray Hsu, and Tetsuro Shigematsu for 12 weeks. Watch for their stage readings set for October 2012! (posted 6/14/2012)
  • Los Angeles, CA: East West brings Back Three Year Swim Club (posted 6/14/12)

May 2012

April 2012

March 2012

  • Honolulu, HI: Kumu Kahua presents world premiere of Wilcox's Shot (posted 3/21/12)
  • Tidbit!
    The Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University has announced selection of the Mary MacKall Gwinn Hodder Fellows for the 2012-13 academic year. Poet James Arthur, fiction writer Melinda Moustakis, non-fiction writer Yasmine El Rashidi, and playwright A. Rey Pamatmat are recipients of the award created to provide artists in the early stages of their career time to undertake significant new work. (posted 3/21/12)
  • Tidbit!
    Los Angeles, CA: The Romance of Magno Rubio, a play based on a short story by Filipino American writer Carlos Bulosan, has been nominated for 5 LA Weekly Theatre Awards. The play by Lonnie Carter is about is about Filipino migrant farm workers, and in particular, about one lonely and illiterate Filipino farm worker who falls in love with a white woman after getting his fellow workers to correspond with her. Magno Rubio's American Dream is a woman who ends being a gold digger that cons him out of his small salary. The original production in New York won an Obie award in 2003, and this latest revival in Los Angeles seems to be just as praiseworthy. The Romance of Magno Rubio uses rhyme and traditional Filipino arts such as the martial art of Eskrima to tell its story, which explains why the play is nominated not only for its direction (Bernardo Bernardo), ensemble, and lead male performance (Jon Jon Briones), but also for choreography and fight choreography. (posted 3/21/12)
  • Vancouver, BC: VACT presents 13th Asian Comedy Night and sketch comedy competition (posted 3/13/12)
  • Los Angeles, CA: Wide Lantern pitches diversity at WonderCon (posted 3/13/12)
  • New York, NY: Asian American Performers Action Coalition releases two reports on the state of Asian American performers in New York. And, a) it's not good, and b) it's still better than other cities in the US
    Full report     and the summary (posted 3/3/12)
  • Honolulu, HI: Kumu Kahua sets audition for next show (posted 3/3/12)
  • New York, NY: Variations Theatre Group presents Roger Yeh in Prisoner of Love (posted 3/3/12)
  • Tidbit!
    The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) announced six finalists for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award, recognizing playwrights for the best scripts that premiered professionally outside New York City during 2011. The top award of $25,000 and two citations of $7,500 each, plus commemorative plaques, will be presented March 31 at Actors Theatre of Louisville during the Humana Festival of New American Plays. At $40,000, Steinberg/ATCA is the largest national new play award of its kind.
    The finalists include

    Edith Can Shoot Things And Hit Them, by A. Rey Pamatmat, bowed last spring at the Humana Festival. "This moving, bittersweet play portrays an especially untraditional family made up of three young misfits: a brilliant 16-year-old and his precocious 12-year-old sister abandoned by their widowed father to raise themselves, and the brother's lover who runs from a family unaccepting of his nascent homosexuality. Their fanciful bonding, resilience and realization of their limitations results in an uplifting and meaningful comic drama infused with empathy and wry humor."

    Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the New World, by Yussef El Guindi, "is a gentle romantic comedy wrapped around a serious examination of issues facing today's new immigrants, dilemmas that resonate for every generation's newcomers. An Egyptian immigrant who drives a cab strikes up a romance with a quirky American-born waitress, but the clash of cultures is only the hook El Guindi uses to explore the diversity of opinions even within one ethnic group as they struggle with assimilation and a newly-minted belief in the promise of the American Dream." It premiered in June at ACT in Seattle. (posted 3/3/12)

February 2012

  • Tidbit!
    The Asian Women Giving Circle is pleased to announce our 2012 Request for Proposals for our Women, Arts and Activism grants.
    Through this RFP, the Asian Women Giving Circle seeks to support Asian American women-led projects that use the tools of culture, the arts and education to raise awareness and catalyze action around critical issues that impact Asian American communities. As such, the focus of this grant making will be on programs and projects that combine the arts with activism, and which highlight and promote women's central role in their leadership, creation, development and management. The deadline for submitting a proposal is Monday, March 26, 2012 at 5 pm (Eastern Standard Time).

    For the complete RFP and application materials, please visit:
    www.asianwomengivingcircle.org/apply.htm (posted 2/29/12)
  • Los Angeles, CA: East West announces winners of the Faces of the Future playwriting contest (posted 2/29/12)
  • Tidbit!
    Houston, TX: Shunya Theatre is holding auditions for their 2012 season. Auditions will be held at:
    Barnevelder Movement Arts
    2201 Preston Street
    Houston, TX, 77003
    Audition schedule:
    Tuesday, February 28 at 6-9 pm
    Saturday, March 3 at 1-4pm
  • Minneapolis, MN: Mu presents Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them (posted 2/22/12)
  • Honolulu, HI: Kumu Kahua holds fundraiser (posted 2/10/2012)

January 2012

  • Tidbit!
    Ma-Yi Theatre announced that Ma-Yi Lab member JON KERN is this year's recipient of the Laurents/Hatcher Foundation Award for his play Modern Terrorism. The prize comes with a $50,000 award for the playwright, and $100,000 grant to the producing theater. (posted 1/24/12)
  • Los Angeles, CA: East West Players seek PR/Marketing Manager (posted 1/24/12)
  • Tidbit!
    Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre is pleased to announce that Annie Jang is VACT's new Artistic Associate! Annie has been with VACT since 2010 and has stage managed 3 Comedy Nights & a staged reading. She also was the Assistant Stage Manager for VACT's original musical Red Letters.Annie graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre Production and Design in 2009 and has worked with several theatre companies in Vancouver. She most recently was part of the production team for the Jessie Award winning Jesus Hopped the "A" Train with Glass City Theatre. (posted 1/24/12)
  • Honolulu, HI: Kumu Kahua presents Yamanaka's Saturday Night at the Pahala Theatre (posted 1/13/12)
  • San Diego, CA: Chinese Pirate Productions presents David Henry Hwang's Golden Child (posted 1/6/12)

 

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