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			December 1998 18 MMW seek actor! The 18 Mighty Mountain Warriors, "The World's Most Psychotic Asian American Skit Comedy Group," is seeking an Asian American male actor to join the troupe. East West Players Nabs Two Ovation Awards! EWP a hit among the big boys! AATC presents reading of new play, Butcher's Burden. San Francisco's Asian American Theater Company presents the second reading of his play by company member, Harold Byun... T-shirt play from David Henry Hwang News from Louisville's prestigous Humana Festival of New American Plays indicates that Tony Award winning playwright David Henry Hwang will be among a number of writers (Tony Kushner [Angles in America], Wendy Wasserstein [Heidi Chronicles, etc.], Jane Martin and Mac Wellman) who will be writing "T-Shirt Plays", in which an entire dramatic work is wearable. Ummm. Well, this is the Festival, where DHH premiered Bondage and his 10-minute play, Trying to Find Chinatown.... UC Davis holding auditions for Cleveland Raining The Theatre and Dance Department at U.C. Davis is producing an Asian American play (at the beginning of Spring Quarter) titled, Cleveland Raining... Lonely Planet benefit features top Asian American actors. Tidbits Lucy Wang, an award winning playwright, has a new play that will be featured in the New Works Festival at Cleveland Public Theatre in Jan 1999. Cleveland Public Theatre would like to know if there are any Asian American actresses who can play mid30s and will be in OHIO over the holidays who might be interested in a lead role. If available and interested, please contact Lucy Wang at Luswei@aol.com or award-winning director Randy Rollison at cpt@en.com NWAAT issues call for Spring A-Fest Northwest Asian American Theatre issues invitation... Casting Call for Christmas show Doing an Asian Pacific American Christmas Program in need of actors and actresses to complete the cast.... East West Players announces a Marathon of Short Play Readings from the David Henry Hwang Writers Institute. (NOTE! New start time!) Great Leap Presents Holiday Cds... November 1998 Loud Mouthed Asian Babes in Toronto! It's Babes in th' Pool in Toronto! Fellowships Available for Artists The UCLA Center for Intercultural Performance seeks applicants for its annual fellowship programs.... Slant presents new work The Mulberry Street Theater (MST) is pleased to present the premiere of "Odes, by Gottlob & Oka Dance Company, and the premiere of "Hotel California, by SLANT, as part of MST,s 98-,99 Ear to the Ground series... Asian American Writers' Workshops presents First Asian American Literary Awards AATC (SF) presents Fall classes To continue fostering new talent in Asian Pacific American theater, the Asian American Theater Company, with noted AATC Alumni, is offering the following classes for its Fall 1998 Series: September/October 1998 Eth-Noh-Tech presents full schedule of events. EWP presents tribute to George Takei East West Players, the nation's first and foremost Asian American theatre company, presents HERO, A Tribute to George Takei a star-studded evening of comedy and music honoring George Takei from Star Trek fame... EWP Presents Dance and Sing for the Holidays East West Players, the nation's first and foremost Asian American theatre company, presents the final mainstage presentation of its inaugural season... AATC presents Charlie Chin San Francisco's Asian American Theater Company presents storyteller, musician and writer Charlie Chin's solo performance of The Craft of The Chinese Storyteller: Traditional Tales of Ancient China... NWAAT Announces Youth Corps program This program hopes to provide an outlet for those dreams and the opportunity to develop their voice.... Pork Filled Players present All Wallows Eve... They're baaaaccckkk! The Pork Filled Players (PFP), Seattle's newest Asian American comedy group, opens its 1998-99 season with All Wallows Eve: Tales from the Sty, an all-new show debuting October 9, 1998, at the Theatre Off Jackson (409 7th Ave. S.) in Seattle's International District. East West nabs six Ovation nominations... East West Announces 1998-99 season... East West Players, the nation' s first and foremost Asian American theatre, announces its 33rd Anniversary mainstage season... AATC presents sneak peak at new Gotanda play... Asian American Theater Company and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts proudly present a workshop production of The Sisters Matsumoto by Philip Kan Gotanda. David Henry Hwang to appear at Chicago's Center for Asian Art and Media in October. Ma-Yi's PeregiNasyon a hit! (pics!) Julyana Soelistyo, last seen on Broadway in David Henry Hwang's Golden Child, has been signed for a featured role in Steven Spielberg's production of Memoirs of a Geisha (based on that best selling book). She has also been signed for a minor role in Martin Scorcese's new film, Bringing Out the Dead. August 1998 A View of Mail Order Brides from Singapore Mail Order Brides & Other Oriental Take-Aways is a made-in-Singapore play that takes a biting look at internet matchmaking.... San Diego's SDAART and Filipino American Poetry Benefit San Diego Asian American Repertory Theatre is proud to announce its selection as a beneficary of "A Gala of Filipino-American Poetry", a night celebrating Filipino and Filipino-American culture, Tuesday, August 18, 1998 at the Lyceum Theatre in downtown San Diego... PoMo in the Bay Area... "This consortium of Teatro ng Tanan/TnT, Kulintang Arts, Tongue in a Mood and Pearl Ubungen Dancers and Musicians--we call it PoMo--got together to commemorate the centennial and celebrate the survival of our people..." East West to present Lava... LAVA, by Edward Sakamoto, is the fourth production of the inaugural season at East West Players in the new David Henry Hwang Theater Playwrighting scholarships offered... East West Players offers two scholarships are for the 1998-99 session of the David Henry Hwang Writers Institute (DHHWI)... Open Casting call for major AA film... A S I A N A M E R I C A N T A L E N T S E A R C H for The Floating World, a new feature film directed by Kayo Hatta (Picture Bride)... East West Players elect new board officers... LYNN FUKUHARA-ARTHURS NEW BOARD CHAIR OF EAST WEST PLAYERS EVELYN KIYOMI EMI & LAWRENCE O'CONNOR NEW CO-PRESIDENTS EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT ASIAN MEN New original works by members of Dan Kwong's Autobiographical Writing/Performing Workshop, will perform August 14-16 at East West Players... Ma-Yi Theatre presents PEREGRINASYON (WANDERING NATION) by Chris Milado... More Asian American talent appears in Butterflies and Tigers... A Waiter Tommorrow Official Screenings... For those who can't get enough Strong Asian American Film.... July 1998 Stockton's AA Rep presents Letters to a Student Revolutionary In its 8th consecutive season, Asian American Repertory Theatre proudly announces the opening of Letters to a Student Revolutionary by Elizabeth Wong... Flipzoids hits Philipines with Ma-Yi; heads to Seattle and Hawaii FLIPZOIDS played to sold-out audiences in Manila, as part of the Centennial Arts Festival.... Soros offers fellowships! A $50 million charitable trust has been established by Paul and Daisy Soros to grant fellowships for graduate study to immigrants and children of immigrants. Forbidden City: Precursor to Asian American theatre. Before there was East West or Asian American Theatre Company, there was the Forbidden City, the Colony Club and a handful of other nightclubs... Asianantics presents Reconstituted Women... Asiantics presents, RECONSTITUTED WOMEN: JUST ADD WORDS....which showcases the writing of Bay Area Asian American Women... Exit the Dragon makes Final LA appearance! Fundraiser for East West! Bay Area Open Mike Bay Area Events: 18 Mighty Mountain Warriors/ Asianantics East West premieres first Thai American play! BIG HUNK O' BURNIN' LOVE, by Prince Gomolvilas, is the third production of the inaugural season at East West Players in the new David Henry Hwang Theatre Emerald Rain seeks AAs for play... 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