June 2014
- Honolulu, HI, Kumu Kahua announces 2014 Playwriting Contest winners (posted 6/25/14)
- New York, NY: David Henry Hwang joins Columbia University's Playwriting Program as director (posted 6/25/14)
- Vancouver, BC: VACT nominated for first Jessie (posted 6/25/14)
- Honolulu, HI: Kumu Kahua reprises Flowers of Hawaii(posted 6/25/14)
Minneapolis, MN: Mu presents A Little Night Music (posted 6/25/14)
- Tidbit!
Ma-Yi Writers' Lab seeks new members!
The Ma-Yi Writers Lab is the largest resident company of Asian-American
playwrights ever assembled in recorded time. This year, become a part
of history by joining the Lab!
LAB MEMBERS GET TO...
* Reserve free Studio Time in a midtown, air-conditioned, Wi-Fi wired, secret location!
* Learn priceless lessons and hear cautionary tales from fellow writers in the trenches!
* Eat salty snacks!
* Eat sweet snacks!
* Participate in the quarterly LabFest where your work is given an staged reading!
To be considered, please submit all application materials to mayilab@gmail.com by July 1st, 2014. E-mail submissions only.
Finalists will be asked to interview in August/September 2014.
Meetings will begin in September 2014.
- Tidbit!
Linda Cho, in her first try at Broadway, wins a Tony for Best Costume Design in a Musical for Gentlemen's Guide to Love & Murder. The Tony Awards, presented by the American Theatre Wing, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre.
- Los Angeles, CA: East West Seeks Full Time Development Manager (posted 6/11/14)
- Waterford, CT: A Rey Pamatmat joins Michael Lew as playwrights for O'Neill Conference (posted 6/11/14)
- Los Angeles, CA: East West announces 50th Season: Golden (posted 6/11/14)
May 2014
- (New York, NY): Ma-Yi's Wong Kids wins Off Broadway Alliance Award for Best Family show (posted 6/11/14)
- Tidbit!
Ooooops! Forgot some REALLY big news last update!
Sonya Tayeh & Emmanuel Manny Brown won an Obie for choreography for David Henry Hwang's Kung Fu (the Bruce Lee "dance-ical"....and, damn! It was well deserved!)
And Mia Katigbak won an Obie for her performance in National Asian American Theatre Company's revival of Awake and Sing!
- Honolulu, HI: Kumu Kahua offers free classes (posted 5/26/13)
- Seattle, WA: ACT to present Hold These Truths (posted 5/22/14)
- Minneapolis, MN: Mu takes the classic F.O.B. on tour (posted 5/22/14)
- Tidbit!
East West Offering Playwriting Class!
Playwriting 101: Back to Basics
Instruction by Prince Gomolvilas
Dates: June 17, 2014 – July 22, 2014
Tuesdays, 7:00PM–10:00PM
Location: Maryknoll Japanese Catholic Center
222 S. Hewitt St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Fee: $350 (ACTS members $325)
To enroll, complete the DHHWI Summer 2014 Class Enrollment Form and please email it to EWP Literary Manager Snehal Desai at sdesai@eastwestplayers.org.
- Honolulu, HI: Kumu Kahua presents Koi, Like the Fish (posted 5/22/14)
Tidbit!
The Wong Kids In The Secret Of The Space Chupacabra Go!
Ma-Yi Theater Company in association with La MaMa
Co-created with Children's Theatre Company
In partnership with The Ensemble Studio Theatre
Nomination for the 2014 Off Broadway Alliance Awards.
The winners will be announced May 27th!
- Honolulu, HI: Kumu Kahua offers playwriting class (posted 5/22/14)
- Tidbit!
Brenda Wong Aoki Wins
Circle of Excellence Award 2014. The highest honor in the national
storytelling arena has officially been awarded to Brenda Wong Aoki by
the National Storytelling Network (NSN). The Awards ceremony will take
place in July in Phoenix.
- Scotland: James Tait Black Prize for Drama longlist announced; Aditi Brennan Kapil's plays make list (posted 5/12/14)
- Minneapolis, MN: Mu Performing Arts seeks Managing Director (posted 5/12/14)
- New York, NY: Kimber Lee's brownsville song (b-side for tray) makes NYC debut (posted 5/12/14)
- Toronto, Canada: Asiansploitation presents Asiansploitation: Oh My Godzilla!(posted 5/12/14)
- New York, NY: Lauren Yee nominated for John Gassner Award (posted 5/5/14)
- New York, NY: David Henry Hwang named Doris Duke Artists, wins six figure prize (posted 5/5/14)
- Richmond, BC: Bringing diversity to an increasingly multicultural country (posted 5/5/14)
- Minneapolis, MN: Mu announces 2014-15 season (posted 5/5/14)
April 2014
March 2014
- San Diego, CA: Mo'olelo hosts the San Diego debut of the 18 Mighty Mountain Warriors (linked 3/27/14)
- Los Angeles, CA: East West announces honorees for 48th Anniversary Visionary Dinner (posted 3/27/14)
- Honolulu, HI: Kumu Kahua premieres Cockadoodledoo (posted 3/27/14)
- Berkeley, CA: Philip Kan Gotanda settles in as UC Berkeley professor (linked 3/14/14)
- Seattle, WA: SIS Productions presents West Coast premiere of Impenetrable (posted 3/14/14)
- San Diego, CA: Mo'olelo names new Artistic Director (posted 3/14/14)
- Los Angeles, CA: Artists at Play presents staged reading (posted 3/14/14)
- Tidbit!
This year, PLAYWRIGHTS’ ARENA (the only theater dedicated to producing
works written exclusively by Los Angeles playwrights) is celebrating
its 22nd ANNIVERSARY with its annual fundraiser – HOT NIGHT IN THE
CITY: an evening of songs by LA-based composers and lyricists.
The event is on Tuesday, Aril 8th, at Barndsall Gallery Theater in
Hollywood. At the event we are honoring community leader ANDREA
COCKRUM, playwright HENRY ONG and LA Women’s Shakespeare Company
artistic director, LISA WOLPE with the Lee Melville Award for
outstanding contributions to the Los Angeles theater community. (posted
3/3/14)
- New York, NY: Ensemble Studio Theatre presents Carla Ching's Fast Company (posted 3/3/14)
February 2014
- Save the date!
The next National Asian American Theater Conference and Festival is
taking place in Philadelphia this year, October 8th-12th, 2014! The
ConFest is currently entitled "Home: Here…There… Where?". Through the
lens of the Asian American experience of migration and the search for a
sense of “place” and equity on personal, community, and global levels,
the ConFest will examine Asian Americans' relationship to broad
definitions and meanings of home. Over 4 1/2 days, the 2014 ConFest
will include 4 full-length productions, 2 performance showcases, 20
panel discussions or workshops, and 3 plenary sessions. Open-mic
opportunities, video presentation sessions with artists sharing
work-in-progress, neighborhood artist/open studio and community tours,
new play readings, and open space sessions will round out the program.
- Seattle, WA: SIS Productions presents West Coast premiere of Impenetrable(posted 2/23/14)
- Philadelphia, PA: Asian Arts Initiave presents original staged reading series (posted 2/23/14)
- Tidbit!
The FINAL rehearsal blog for David Henry Hwang's Kung Fu, the Bruce Lee dance-ical! The show is frozen and ready to go! (posted 2/23/14)
- New York, NY: Over 40 Playwrights, Including David Henry Hwang and Kimber Lee, Write World Premiere of The Mysteries for The Flea (posted 2/23/14)
- Tidbit!
David Henry Hwang's rehearsal blog for Kung Fu, the Bruce Lee dance-ical, continues with a sustained look at the preview and review process (posted 2/15/14)
- The 2014 ConFest is coming! (aka the 4th Asian American Theatre Conference/Festival)
Currently entitled Home: Here...There... Where?, the ConFest will examine Asian Americans' relationship to broad definitions and meanings of home.
APPLY!
Project proposals for full productions, solo shows, new play readings,
panel and workshop sessions are now being accepted! Hurry: the
deadline is February 28.
DONATE!
CAATA's board has launched a fund drive with a $5,000 pledge.
Show your support by making a donation to CAATA and the ConFest.
All contributions are tax-deductible.
For more details on the RFP or to donate: Click Here!
- Los Angeles, CA: East West seeking Development Manager (new applications only) (posted 2/12/14)
- New York, NY: Tech week rehearal blog for David Henry Hwang's Bruce Lee dance-ical, Kung Fu (posted 2/12/14)
- Minneapolis, MN: Mu presents Rhythm in Motion (posted 2/12/14)
January 2014
- New York, NY: Attack on Asian American theatre writer Randy Gener investigated as hate crime
Police has released
an artists sketch of the suspect
Friends are raising funds to pay for his medical expenses (posted 1/28/14)
- Tidbit!
Week Three rehearsal blog for David Henry Hwang's Bruce Lee dance-ical, Kung Fu, just recently extended to March 30. (posted 1/28/14)
- Los Angeles, CA: Asian American playwrights featured prominently at South Coast's CrossRoads Initiative (posted 1/28/14)
- Tidbit!
Playwright Michael Lew has been named the second annual Lanford Wilson
Award winner via the Dramatists Guild, as well as a 2013 Helen Merrill
Award winner. (posted 1/28/14)
- Chicago, IL: CIRCAPintig offers Migrant Diaries (posted 1/28/14)
- Tidbit
The Seattle Theater Writers present the Gypsy Awards for excellence in Seattle for 2013
A. Rey Pamatmat's Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them continues its winning streak of awards by taking three awards for Best
Play (Small Theatre), Lead Actor Jojo Abaoag, and Best Ensemble Small
Theatre. Posted 1/28/14
- Tidbit!
Mo'olelo receives EIGHT nominations from San Diego Theatre Critics Circle
For Outstanding Ensemble: Both "The Bluest Eye" and "Extraordinary Chambers" are nominated.
For Outstanding Sound Design: Joe Huppert is nominated for "Extraordinary Chambers"
For Outstanding Scenic Design: David F. Weiner is nominated for "Extraordinary Chambers"
For Outstanding Direction: Both Delicia Turner Sonnenberg and Seema
Sueko are nominated for "The Bluest Eye" and "Extraordinary Chambers,"
respectively
For Outstanding Dramatic Production: Both "The Bluest Eye" and "Extraordinary Chambers" are nominated (posted 1/28/14)
- Tidbit!
San Diego, CA: The Newspaper Plays
Instructor: Stephen Metcalfe
Monday Nights, February 24 - March 31, 2014 from 6:30-9:00PM
Public Reading of Scripts on Monday, April 7
Taking stories and ideas from local news sources, Mo'olelo is
sponsoring classes that will write and develop original monologues and
shorts scenes, based on characters both real and imagined. The workshop
culminates with the students holding a reading of approximately 5 - 10
minutes of each student's selected work in an evening that's open to
the public to enjoy. Students will serve as their own producers for the
public reading by securing readers, publicizing it and staffing the
front of house as needed (check in, ushering). (posted 1/28/14)
- Tidbit!
Week two rehearsal blog for David Henry Hwang's Kung Fu dance-ical about Bruce Lee is now up! (posted 1/16/14)
- Stanford, CA: The Stanford Asian American Theatre Project reimagines the classic My Fair Lady in the Asian British community of London in the 1910s (posted 1/14/14)
- Los Angeles, CA: East West seeks Business Consultant, deadline 1/21/14 (posted 1/14/14)
- Los Angeles, CA: East West opens enrollment for Spring Conservatory (posted 1/14/14)
- Chicago, IL: CIRCAPintig unveils 2014 season (posted 1/14/14)
- Tidbit!
Hey, kids! There's a new David Henry Hwang show coming up...and you
know what that means? There's a new blog series (or two) chronicling
the reheasal process at the YOMYOMF website...check it out! (and also check out the other blog posters as well!) (posted 1/9/14)
- Los Angeles, CA: East West presents A Nice Indian Boy (posted 1/9/14)
- New Orleans, LA: Kimber Lee wins Southern Rep's Ruby Prize (posted 1/9/14)
- Honolulu, HI: Kumu Kahua partners with Foundation for premiere (posted 1/3/14)
- (Los Angeles, CA) TEADA Works offers workshops (Deadline January 8) Posted 1/3/14
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