SDAART closes with Performance Anxiety

What do you get when you combine gender roles, identity mix-ups, homosexuality, and wooden children?  A hilarious romp that will change your whole image of the perfect "Beaver Cleaver" household!

The San Diego Asian American Repertory Theatre closes its 1998-99 season with Vernon Takeshita's Peformance Anxiety, the first production since its premiere in 1996. Takeshita's comedy opens June 4, 1999 and runs through June 27, 1999 at the Sweetooth Theatre in downtown San Diego, located in the ballroom of the Maryland Hotel

Peformance Anxiety's smash hit premiere at East West Players has been called ";a frenzied, farcical romp. . . over-the-top, wildly hilarious burlesque" (LA Weekly) and "inspired lunacy. . . a wickedly funny gender-bender. . . a roller coaster ride" (Drama-Logue)

Peformance Anxiety will be directed by Ed You. Mr. You has been seen onstage in productions of A Chorus Line, Company, F.O.B., Sweet Charity, The Producers, Romeo and Juliet, and Bye-Bye Birdie; episodes of Asian Story Theater's Monkey King anthology; and East West Players' award-winning productions of Sweeney Todd and Pacific Overtures. Mr. You has just finished principle shooting in the title role of Charles Dickens, His Loves and Life. Peformance Anxiety marks his directorial debut with AART.

The cast includes Roger Fan, whose recent credits include Lettice and Lovage with East West Players, How We Talk in South Boston with Theatre 40, New Line's Rush Hour, Fraiser, Newsradio, Party of 5, Martial Law, and ARLI$$. Victoria Fang is a graduate of Williams College, where she received a B.A. degree with honors in Theatre and the 1998 Gilbert W. Gabriel Memorial Prize in Theatre. Since arriving in L.A., she has performed in A Chorus Line as Connie and has had roles on television series LA Doctors and Charmed. Eddie Mui, originally from Seattle, has performed in the world premiere of S.A.M. I Am at East West Players in Los Angeles, Fentor with the Here And Now Company, Kimchee and Chitlins, and Exit the Dragon. His television credits include: Party of 5, E.R., Beverly Hills 90210 and Babylon 5.

Peformance Anxiety is produced by Andy Lowe, AART founder and Artistic Director.  Mr. Lowe is also the lighting designer. Costumes are designed by Fwamay Sullivan, AART Resident Costume Designer. Ed You also designed sound.

AART is San Diego's only contemporary Asian American theater company, garnering both critical praise and audience approval. The continental U.S. premiere of Cultivated Lives by Los Angeles-based playwright Velina Hasu Houston in April this year proved to be a true collaborative effort for AART, incorporating artists from the Fritz Theatre and the Old Globe Theatre in a direct working relationship. Determined to expand programs and raise production levels, AART provides San Diego and the region with the Asian American perspectives they deserve.