SIS Productions presents a festival of new readings Insatiable 4 (the win)! Seattle’s 4th Asian American Playwright’s Festival
Sunday, November 15, 2008
SIS Productions, the creators of the popular Sex in Seattle series, presents Insatiable 4 (the win)! Seattle's 4th Asian American Playwright's Festival, a day-long festival of play readings by local Asian American playwrights on Sunday, November 15, 2009. The festival will feature new works by Maggie Lee, May Nguyen, and Roger Tang.
“We are really excited to explore so many diverse genres in this year’s festival, from science fiction to romantic comedy to crime drama,” says Mr. Tang, Literary Manager for SIS Productions. “I think it really give our writers a chance to show their individual personality outside of what might be considered ‘traditional’ Asian American theater.”
All readings will be at Prima Vera Arts Center, located at 112 5th Avenue North, 2nd Floor. Located in a two-story storefront, the entrance is at the back of the building, just North of Denny, off of Taylor Avenue North, located on the East side of the Seattle Center. Tickets are $5 per reading for general admission, or $9 for an all-fest pass. Please call (206) 323-9443 or email tickets@sis-productions.org for reservations and information or visit our website at www.sis-productions.org
Trivia Night by May Nguyen at noon.
Two different groups of friends head to their local pub’s Trivia Night to show off their combined knowledge of useless information and to give themselves an easy excuse to go out on a Wednesday night. What they don’t expect is to learn more than just pop-culture tidbits. Join these Asian American friends as they test themselves against what they know and what they think they know.
May Nguyen is a trained marine biologist with a degree from UC-Santa Cruz, currently working as a trace metals analyst in Seattle, who is finally putting into words the plays she saw in her head. May is also an actor in the Seattle theater community and has been seen in Spam-O-Rama and Living Dead in Denmark with Pork Filled Players, Sex in Seattle: Episode 16 and 17 with SIS Productions, and several staged readings with the SIS Writers’ Group. Many thanks to the SIS Writers’ Group for providing a safe, constructive, and fun forum in which May could explore playwriting.
A Long Fatal Love Chase On A Distant Star by Maggie Lee at 2 pm.
On a remote sentry ship at the edge of the universe, poised on the brink of intergalactic war, Louisa May Alcott’s forgotten scandalous novel of love and obsession finds new life being shared by a unit of rookie mecha pilots, blurring the line between science fiction and “sensational” fiction.
Maggie Lee is a writer, actor, producer, lighting designer, and puppet mistress for the Pork Filled Players, Seattle's only Asian American sketch comedy group. She has also designed lights, props, and puppets for other local theater companies, such as ReAct, GreenStage, Open Circle Theater, and SIS Productions. In 2006, she adapted a stage version of H.P. Lovecraft's The Thing on the Doorstep for OCT's The Colour Out of Space, and was a contributing writer for 2008's original Lovecraft-inspired show Necronomicon. She is also the author of the one-act The Silver Key and the full-length play Light the Corners of My Mind, both featured in previous Insatiable! readings. She has a BA in English and a minor in Lighting Design from UC Berkeley.
Walk the Edges of Shadow by Roger Tang at 4 pm.
Detective Kim Inamura helped catch the Asian American Ted Bundy, but that was the easy part. Convicting him and finding the rest of his victims is something else entirely...and it leads Inamura through the dark shadows of race, class and gender, both inside and outside the interrogation room.
Roger Tang is a theatre veteran of three decades, who began as a designer for David Henry Hwang and Philip Kan Gotanda. As a writer, he is the author of full-length plays Third Generation Heritage, Walk The Edges of Shadow, and Mac 'n Dex, as well as numerous comedy sketches for the Pork Filled Players. As a producer, he helmed the Northwest premieres of Gotanda’s Dream of Kitamura, Genny Lim’s Paper Angels, Hwang’s Bondage, Prince Gomolvilas' Big Hunk O' Burnin' Love, and Qui Nguyen’s Living Dead in Denmark. He has taught Asian American history at the University of Washington and was instrumental in building the Theatre Off Jackson as Development Director for the Northwest Asian American Theatre. Called the "Godfather of Asian American theatre" by A. Magazine, he is Managing Producer for the Pork Filled Players (Seattle’s oldest sketch comedy group & the Northwest’s longest running Asian American theatre), is Literary Manager for SIS Productions, sits on the board at Repertory Actors Theatre, edits the Asian American Theatre Revue, and administers the aa-drama mailing list.
SIS Productions is a production company that strives to create, develop and produce quality works that involve Asian American women, their themes, and Asian American issues. SIS Productions encourages opportunities and support for Asian American women to be involved in all aspects of the production of artistic endeavors.
The SIS Writers Group was established in 2005 to encourage and promote Asian American playwrights to develop their work and actively engage in the craft of writing new plays.
