Please support your local Asian American theatre group. (Last looked at 8/18/07) (which, given my schedule and motivations, means I diddled a bit with it, but not completely, so there might be some things...ummm, LOTS of things....that slipped by....).
There's also an Addresses page, with addresses or telephone numbers listed for easy access!
E-mail listservs serving Asian American drama people by region
National:aa-drama AT yahoogroups.com
asianamericanplaywrights AT yahoogroups.com
aatheater AT yahoogroups.com
Regional:
- Bay Area
kswevents AT yahoogroups.com - Chicago:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/bubble-tea - Los Angeles:
AziatikArtsLA AT yahoogroups.com - Seattle
SAPAAG AT yahoogroups.com - Toronto
tape2tape AT yahoogroups.com - Washington, DC
APIAN-Online AT yahoogroups.com
Professional/Community Groups
Active Groups (by region)
Arizona
- Arizona Asian Theater Co. (Phoenix, AZ)
Alan Tang (no relation)(I think) artistic director
California, Northern
- Asian American Dance Performances (San Francisco, CA)
- Asian American Theater Company (San Francisco, CA)
- Bindlestiff Studio (San Francisco, CA) Filipino Arts
- Community Asian Theatre of the Sierras (Nevada City, CA) (betcha you didn't know there was Asian American theatre in the Sierras, did you?)
- Contemporary Asian Theater Scene (San Jose, CA)
- Eth-Noh-Tec Asian American Storytellers
e-mail is ethnohtec (AT) aol.com - Interactive Asian Contemporary Theatre (InterACT), Sacramento, CA
The group formerly known as Asian Pacific Theatre Project - Kai Hsin Productions (San Francisco, CA)
Kaihsin (AT) aol.com or
azameworks (AT) earthlink.net - Krea (Bay Area, CA)
- LocusArts (San Francisco, CA)
- NAATAK (Bay Area Indian Theater, Bay Area, CA)
- Revival Arts Productions (Hayward, CA) Filipino arts group
- Sinag-tala Filipino Performing Arts Association (Sacramento, CA)
- Theater of the Yugen (San Francisco)
Eamail at yurikodoi (AT) aol.com - Youth for Asian Theatre (San Francisco, CA)
California, Southern
- Asian American Repertory Theatre (San Diego, CA)
email at info (AT) asianamericanrep.org - Asian Story Theatre (San Diego, CA)
Contact Gingerlily Lowe - Club O' Noodles (Southern CA) Vietnamese drama and sketch comedy.
- Cold Tofu (Los Angeles, CA); improv AA comedy, still kicking!
- Diversity Players (Los Angeles, CA)
- East West Players (Los Angeles, CA)
- 18 Mighty Mountain Warriors (Los Angeles, CA)
- Great Leap (Los Angeles, CA)
- Here and Now (Southern CA) revised
- Imerg Inc. (touring)
- Lodestone Theatre Ensemble (formerly known as Society of Heritage Performers) (Los Angeles, CA), founded by Soon Teck Oh
- Mo'olelo Performing Arts Company (San Diego, CA)
- OPM (Los Angeles, CA)
- ProperGander (Los Angeles, CA)
- Room to Improv (Los Angeles, CA) Improv comedy
- TEADA Productions/Kalo Projects (Los Angeles, CA Hawai'i group)
e-mail is at TEADA (AT) aol.com
Canada
- Asian Canadian Writers' Workshop (Canada)
- Asiansploitation (Toronto, Canada)
- Assaulted Fish (Vancouver, BC)
- Cahoots Theatre Project (Toronto, Canada)
cahoots (AT) interlog.com - fu-GEN Theatre Company (Toronto, Canada)
- My Theatre Company Society (Vancouver, CA)
- Rasik Arts, South Asian Theatre (Toronto, Canada)
rasikarts (AT) yahoo.com - Scripting Aloud (Vancouver, BC)
Facebook page also available - TF Productions (Vancouver, BC)
- Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre (Vancouver, BC)
Florida
- APASI, Asian Pacific American Scene, Inc. (Tampa, FL)
Hawaii
- Loose Screws (Hawaii)
- Kuma Kahua Theatre (Hawaii)
Illinois
- Due East (Chicago, IL)
- Pintig Cultural Group (Chicago, IL) Filipino group
- Silk Road Theatre Project (Chicago, IL)
- Stir Friday Night (Chicago, IL)
- Taco Flavored Egg Rolls (Chicago, IL)
- YAWP (Young Asians With Power) (Chicago, IL)
Massachusetts
- New WORLD Theater (Amherst, MA)
Minnesota
- Mixed Blood Theatre Company (Minneapolis)
- Mu Performing Arts (formerly Theater Mu) (Minneapolis)
- Pangea World Theater (Minneapolis, MN)
New York
- Cuchipinoy Productions (New York City, NY)
info at info@cuchipinoy.com - Desipina Productions (NYC, NY)
- Disha Theatre (New York City, NY) South Asian theatre group
- eyeBLINK Entertainment (New York City, NY)
- Fluid Motion Theatre & Film (New York City, NY, NY)
- Imua! Theatre Co. (New York City, NY)
- In Mixed Company, a performing arts group, New York City, NY
e-mail is inmixedcompany@hotmail.com - Ma-Yi Theatre Ensemble (New York City, NY)
Email: mayistage@aol.com - Mellow Yellow Theatre (New York City, NY)
- National Asian American Theatre Company (New York City, NY) new web site!
(NAATCO) - Pan Asian Repertory Theatre (New York City, NY)
- Rising Circle (New York City, NY) devoted to actors of color
- SALAAM (New York City, NY), South Asian theatre group
South Asian League of Artists in America - Second Generation Productions (New York City, NY)
- Slant (New York City, NY), New York City's hit musical satire trio.
- Yangtze Repertory Theatre of America (New York City, NY)
Pennsylvania
- Asian Arts Initiative (Philadelphia, PA)
Texas
- Jump Start Performance Company (San Antonio, TX)
- Shunya Theatre (Houston, TX) Indian America theatre
Washington
- Aono Jikken Ensemble (Seattle, WA)
- Isangmahal (Seattle, WA) Spoken word
- Pork Filled Players (Seattle, WA)
- Pratidhwani (Seattle, WA)
- Rainier Valley Youth Theatre (Seattle, WA)
- Repertory Actors Theatre (Seattle, WA)
- SIS Productions (Seattle, WA) Sex In Seattle and other productions
- Wing Luke Museum (Seattle, WA)
Washington, DC
- APIAN (Washington, DC)
- Awaaz (formerly known as ARTH) (Washington, DC) South Asian American theatre group based out of Georgetown University
- MuseFire Productions (Washington, DC)
Active groups (alphabetically)
- Arizona Asian Theater Co. (Phoenix, AZ)
Alan Tang (no relation)(I think) artistic director - Aono Jikken Ensemble (Seattle, WA)
- APASI, Asian Pacific American Scene, Inc. (Tampa, FL)
- APIAN (Washington, DC)
- Asian American Dance Performances (SF, CA)
- Asian American Repertory Theatre (Stockton)
- Asian American Repertory Theatre (San Diego)
email at info@asianamericanrep.org - Asian American Theater Company (San Francisco)
- Asian Canadian Writers' Workshop (Canada)
- Asian Arts Initiative (Philadelphia, PA)
- Asian Story Theatre (San Diego)
Contact Gingerlily Lowe - Asiansploitation (Toronto, Canada)
- Assaulted Fish (Vancouver, BC)
- Awaaz (formerly known as ARTH) (Washington, DC) South Asian American theatre group based out of Georgetown University
- Bindlestiff Studio (San Francisco, CA) Filipino Arts
- Cahoots Theatre Project (Toronto, Canada)
cahoots@interlog.com - Community Asian Theatre of the Sierras (Nevada City, CA) (betcha you didn't know there was Asian American theatre in the Sierras, did you?)
- Club O' Noodles (Southern CA) Vietnamese drama and sketch comedy.
- Cold Tofu (Los Angeles, CA); improv AA comedy, still kicking!
- Contemporary Asian Theater Scene (San Jose, CA)
- Cuchipinoy Productions (New York City, NY)
info at info@cuchipinoy.com - Desipina Productions (NYC, NY)
- Disha Theatre (New York City, NY) South Asian theatre group
- Diversity Players (Los Angeles, CA)
- Due East (Chicago, IL)
- East West Players (Los Angeles)
- 18 Mighty Mountain Warriors (Los Angeles, CA)
- Eth-Noh-Tec Asian American Storytellers
e-mail is ethnohtec@aol.com - eyeBLINK Entertainment (New York City, NY)
- Fluid Motion Theatre & Film (New York City, NY)
- fu-GEN Theatre Company (Toronto, Canada)
- Great Leap (LA)
- Here and Now (touring) revised
- Imerg Inc. (touring)
- Imua! Theatre Co. (New York City, NY)
- Interactive Asian Contemporary Theatre (InterACT), Sacramento, CA
The group formerly known as Asian Pacific Theatre Project - In Mixed Company, a performing arts group, New York City, NY
e-mail is inmixedcompany@hotmail.com - Isangmahal (Seattle, WA) Spoken word
- Jump Start Production Company (San Antonio, TX)
- Kai Hsin Productions (SF)
Kaihsin@aol.com or
azameworks@earthlink.net - Krea (Bay Area, CA)
- Kuma Kahua Theatre (Hawaii)
- Locus (SF, CA)
- Lodestone Theatre Ensemble (formerly known as Society of Heritage Performers) (LA), founded by Soon Teck Oh
- Loose Screws (Hawaii)
- Ma-Yi Theatre Ensemble (New York City, NY)
Email: mayistage@aol.com - Mellow Yellow Theatre (New York City, NY)
- Mixed Blood Theatre Company (Minneapolis)
- Mo'olelo Performing Arts Company (San Diego, CA)
- Mu Performing Arts (formerly Theater Mu) (Minneapolis)
- MuseFire Productions (Washington, DC)
- My Theatre Company Society (Vancouver, CA)
- NAATAK (Bay Area Indian Theater, Bay Area)
- National Asian American Theatre Company (New York City, NY)
(NAATCO) - New WORLD Theater (Amherst, MA)
- OPM (Los Angeles)
- Pan Asian Repertory Theatre (New York City, NY)
- Pangea World Theater (Minneapolis, MN)
- Pintig Cultural Group (Chicago, IL) Filipino group
- Pork Filled Players (Seattle, WA)
- Pratidhwani (Seattle, WA)
- ProperGander (Los Angeles, CA)
- Rainier Valley Youth Theatre (Seattle, WA)
- Rasik Arts, South Asian Theatre (Toronto, Canada)
rasikarts@yahoo.com - ReACT (Seattle)
- Revival Arts Productions (Hayward, CA) Filipino arts group
- Rising Circle (New York City, NY) devoted to actors of color
- Room to Improv (Los Angeles, CA) Improv comedy
- SALAAM (New York City, NY), South Asian theatre group
South Asian League of Artists in America
A report is here - Scripting Aloud (Vancouver, BC)
Facebook page also available - Second Generation Productions (New York City, NY)
- Shunya Theatre (Houston, TX) Indian America theatre
- Silk Road Theatre Project (Chicago, IL)
- Sinag-tala Filipino Performing Arts Association (Sacramento, CA)
- SIS Productions (Seattle) Sex in Seattle continuing soap opera
- Slant (New York City, NY), New York City's hit musical satire trio.
- Stir Friday Night (Chicago, IL)
- Taco Flavored Egg Rolls (Chicago, IL)
- Teada Productions (LA)
- TF Productions (Vancouver, BC)
- Theater of the Yugen (San Francisco)
Eamail at yurikodoi@aol.com - Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre (Vancouver, BC)
- Wing Luke Museum (Seattle, WA)
- Yangtze Repertory Theatre of America (New York City, NY)
- YAWP (Young Asians With Power) (Chicago, IL)
- Youth for Asian Theatre (San Francisco, CA)
There is also the Singapore Repertory Theatre, who frequently works with and hires Asian American actors/writers/designers and produced a pre-Broadway run of David Henry Hwang's Golden Child.
Groups Believed to be Inactive
- Alter Ego Productions (New York City, NY)
- Angel Island Theatre Company (Chicago, IL)
- Asia On Stage (Boston)
E-mail at aoscci@aol.com or AsiaOnStage@yahoo.com - Asian American Theatre Project (Boston) Not currently active
- Asian Pacific Performing Artists Alliance (Las Vegas, NV)
- Asian Stories In American Theatre (Washington, DC)
- Asians Misbehavin' (Philadelphia, PA) sketch/spoken word group
- Boston Asian American Theatre Collaborative (Boston, MA)
- Canasian Artists Group (Toronto, Canada)
- Deep Yellow (Long Beach, CA)
- Everything You Wanted to Know About Asian Men*
* (but didn't give a shit enough to ask)
LA-based Asian American men's group (Dan Kwong) - Funky Fresh Pan-ethnic Asian Girls (touring)
an Asian American women's theatre troupe - GAPA (Gay Asian Pacific Alliance) Theatre,
Based out of the Bay Area. See the GAPA web page. - Hot Sauce Posse (Vancouver, BC) sketch comedy group
- i was born with two tongues (Chicago, IL)
- Inspire Entertainment (LA)
- JACCC (Japan America) Theatre (LA)
- Killer Geisha Go-Go Girls (New York City, NY)
- LCC Productions (New York City, NY)
- lemon-ZA Theatre (Vancouver, BC)
- Loud Mouth Asian Babes (Toronto, Canada)
Also connected with Theatre Passe Muraille - Mango Tribe (it's hard to explain....) (Chicago, IL)
- MAYA, South Asian theatre group (Toronto, Canada)
email at mayatheatre@hotmail.com - Northwest Asian American Theatre (Seattle,WA)
- Peeling (New York City, NY)
- Pom Siab Hmoob Theatre (Hmong Theatre) (Minneapolis)
- QBD Ink. (Washington, DC)
- Quantum Theatre (LA, CA) non-traditional casting company
- R/Evolution Theatre Company (LA, CA)
- Sining KilUSAn (Seattle)
- Sudden Enlightenment Theatre (New York City, NY) Korean American
- Teatro ng Tanan (Bay Area)
- Tongue In a Mood (Bay Area)
- Tsunami Theatre (Washington, DC) Student Groups
In addition, there are a few student Asian American theatres that come up and down, rather periodically, depending on the inclinations of the current students:
- Stanford Asian American Theatre Project (founded by David Henry Hwang)
- Asian American Cooperative Theatre (at Wesleyan)
Careful; the link and page and active, but there's no follow up information there) - Asian American Drama Club, UC Santa Barbara
Student contacts: Keang Ung (685-7708)
Advisor: Jachison Chan (893-8573) - Asian American Playhouse (Cornell)
- Asian American Theatre Productions (Williams College)
- Descendants of the Monkey God (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor)
Current contact: Marvin Eng (313-741-9031) - Entity, Northwestern University (Deborah Hsiann Teng)
- GENseng, State University of New York at Geneseo, Geneseo, NY 14454
716/245-5806
Randy Kaplan, kaplanr@geneseo.edu - Lapu, the coyote that Cares, UCLA's first Asian American theatre ensemble
e-mail at LCC@UCLA.EDU
- Moto Tsunami, University of Illinois
E-mail at e-kao@students.uiuc.edu - Theatre Rice, at UC Berkeley (well, it took you guys long enough....) (And you managed to stick Seattle in the Midwest....sigh....Cal weenies....)
Performance Artists
- The Chinese Clown Cabaret (touring)
- Denise Uyehara web site
- Noboku Miyamoto (LA)
- Michael Sakamoto (LA)
- Dan Kwong
Asian American Theatre Artists on the web
- Ernest Abuba
- Keiko Agena (revised)
- Brenda Wong Aoki, storyteller
- Dan Bacalzo
Also contains reviews! - Jeannie Barroga
- Albert M. Chan
- Marty Chan
- Julia Cho (feature article from AsianWeek)
- Margaret Cho
her personal web log is available here - Kristi Chong
- Geeta Citygirl
- Mark Dascasco
- Bobby Del Rio
- Edu.'s
- Alvin Eng
- Eileen Fogarty
- Cynthia Fujikawa
- Kip Fulbeck
- John Fukuda
- Michael Golamco
- Prince Gomolvilas
- Philip Kan Gotanda (article from the Seattle Times)
A more recent article from the Seattle Times
Another website on him (new!) - Amy Hill
Her personal home page - Gina Hiraizumi
- Velina Hasu Houston
Professional web page - David Henry Hwang has generated a number of web-sites, including:
A transcript of a talk given in April 1995 at MIT.
An analysis of M. Butterfly done as an honors thesis.
A feature on writing Trying to Find Chinatown.
A feature from Stagebill.
Online Guide to the David Henry Hwang Papers
Article for USC talk, 1998.
Feature from 1998 Tonys.
A new compilation of papers
and even more stuff - Ayumi Iizuka
- Christine Toy Johnson
- Mrinalini Kamrath (playwright)
- Sonoko Kawahara a director
- Rich Kiamco
- Chungmi Kim
- Daniel Dae Kim
- Tina Kim
- Chil Kong
- Camellia Koo
- Dan Kwong
- Edward Bok Lee
- James Lee
- Jared Lee
- Cherylene Lee
- Genny Lim
- Aurelio Locsin
- Sandra Tsing Loh
- Rob Lok
- Phyllis Look, a director
- Andy Lowe
- Camille Mana
- Ming Na (aka Ming Na Wen)
- Ron Nakahara, director
- Jude Narita
- Soon Teck Oh (a fan page)
- Henry Ong
- Jack Ong
- Mia Park
- Jennifer Paz (article from Toledo Blade on her and Miss Saigon)
New website - Sung Rno
His personal home page - Michael Sakamoto
- Canyon Sam
- Betty Shamieh
- Ian Shen
- Samuel Sheng
- Baphsi Sidhwa
- Diana Son
- Yuka Takara
- George Takei
- Francis Tanglao-Aguas
community resource on film and theatre, College of William & Mary - Lauren Tom
- Lucy Wang
- Elizabeth Wong
- James Wong
- Kristina Wong
- Lawrence Wong
- Russell Wong
- Wakako Yamauchi
- Derek Yee
- Lawrence Yep
- Chay Yew
- Phil Young
- Wally Zialcita
