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Also should add Back Stage Pass with Lia Chang.
By the way, it's not Asian American, but check out the Internet Broadway Database (http://www.ibdb.com/). Lots of goodies there...
February 2010
- Los Angeles, CA: East West premieres Cave Quest (posted 2/6/10)
- Los Angeles, CA: Disney/ABC seeks applicants for directing program (posted 2/6/10)
- Los Angeles, CA: Southern California Edison sponsors East West's Youth for Theatre tour (posted 2/6/10)
- Audition note!
(posted 2/6/10)
January 2010
- Job Opening (Southern CA)! Projekt NewSpeak is looking for a 2nd generation staff to take charge of the organization!
Do you want to work in production, filmmaking, event planning? Do you want to work with positive people that want to change the image and stereotypes of Asian Americans in Hollywood? Then join us! These are the positions that are available. We are looking to fill all positions by the beginning of February. To apply, please contact us at: info@projektnewspeak.com
Requirements for all positions: MUST be at least 18 w/ car - Tidbit! Projekt NewSpeak announces a new Board of Directors
Dante Basco - Actor/Producer (Hook, Entourage, and Take the Lead)
Karin Anna Cheung - Actress (The People I've Slept With and Better Luck Tomorrow)
Annie Kim - Producer/Marketing (Gochu, D-War)
Geena Oh - Former President of Project by Project
Joe Park - CEO of Blended Events
Ryan Suda - CEO of Blacklava Clothing
Phil Yu - Creator of AngryAsianMan.com
Eddie Kim - Creator of Projekt NewSpeak
(posted 1/31/10) - Los Angeles, CA: East West announces new staff (posted 1/23/10)
- Tidbit! Qui Nguyen has been nominated for a GLAAD Award for Theatre for Vampire Cowboys production of his Soul Samurai! Congratulations! (posted 1/17/10)
- Tidbit! David Henry Hwang tweets that he has completed a new play, Chinglish, a play in English and Mandarin (posted 1/17/10).
Addendum: there is now a casting call for actors for Chinglish:
two Asian females: 30-40 years old and 50-60 years old.
Contact Diana Glazer (diana.glazer -AT- gmail.com) for info and submissions (posted 1/19/10).
Also two Asian males: 20-30 and 40-50.
Plus one Caucasian male, around 40.
Must be able to speak Mandarin. Ideally, these actors can read Chinese as well.
- Los Angeles, CA: MAPID calls for contributions, deadline 1/31/10 (posted 1/17/10)
- San Francisco, CA: Torres leaves Bindlestiff (posted 1/17/10)
- Minneapolis, MN Tidbit!
Minneapolis' City Pages names Mu's Ching Chong Chinaman as one of the top stage plays of 2009 (which means every one of their productions in 2009 made a top ten list of some sort)(posted 1/6/10). - Honolulu, HI: Kumu Kahua presents Houselights & Prolonged Sunlight (posted 1/5/10)
- Los Angeles, CA: New adaption of No No Boy hits stage (posted 1/5/10)
December 2009
- Minneapolis, MN: Tidbit!
Minneapolis Star Tribune named Mu's Flower Drum Song and The Romance of Magno Rubio as two of the top 10 stage productions in Minneapolis in 2009! (posted 12/30/09) - Los Angeles, CA: East West announces 2010 Playwriting seminars (posted 12/30/09)
- New York, NY: US premiere of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (posted 12/18/09)
- Tidbit! David Cote named THE SHIPMENT, by Young Jean Lee, one of the top 10 theater pieces of 2009 in Time Out New York! (posted 12/18/09)
- Los Angeles, CA: East West announces Spring 2010 Conservatory (posted 12/18/09)
- Chicago, IL: Rasaka opens Yoni Ki Baat for 2010 (posted 12/14/09)
- San Diego, CA: Deadline extended for short plays (posted 12/14/09)
- New York, NY: NAATCO holding auditions for Mother Courage (posted 12/1/09)
- Honolulu, HI: Kumu Kahua presents world premeire (posted 12/1/09)
November 2009
- Honolulu, HI: Kumu Kahua holding auditions (posted 11/20/09)
- Flushing, NY: Queens College seeks Theatre Professor (posted 11/20/09)
- Los Angeles: MAPID opens writers' group (posted 11/20/09)
National: TCG publishes the script for Yellow Face by David Henry Hwang (posted 11/12/09)
(Is the Revue getting a complimentary copy? Well, in interests of being up front, yes. And the Revue is unabashed about giving a featured news spot to this...but it's a good, smart play, which we liked ever since we first read it)(It won an Obie, y'know?)- National: Leah Ryan Playwriting Contest for emerging women playwrights is now open (posted 11/12/09)
- National: If I Was Like You
A short film by playwright Wesley Du: Quite provocative (and any film that kicks off two long threads on Racialicious to be pretty hot stuff...). It hasn't been picked up for a lot of film festivals because it was too controversial, but it seems to me there’s a place for films to be controversial if there’s a point to raising the controversy.
Film is available on youtube, starting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FsMnX1HjDY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ADfGiqug8E&feature=related
Discussion here
http://www.racialicious.com/2009/10/16/film-festival-pick-if-i-was-like-you/
http://www.racialicious.com/2009/11/03/special-presentation-wesley-dus-if-i-was-like-you/ - Los Angeles: East West casting for two productions (posted 11/12/09)
- Honolulu: Call for new plays for Kumu Kahua contest (deadline January 4, 2010)(posted 11/10/09)
- Call for submissions - Desipina Holiday Presentations (posted 11/10/09)
Now seeking full-length play submissions by female playwrights for Desipina's holiday workshop series, titled Out of the Kitchen and Into the Fire, the Desipina-like response to the recent studies on gender equality in theater.
Three scripts will be workshopped over the course of 10 hours, and presented in the series, which will span Manhattan and Brooklyn, during the month of December.
Kicks off on Thursday, December 10 in Manhattan - so Save the Date!
Following each presentation will be a small reception, and the opportunity for talkbacks.
Please email your play submission, your bio, and a short paragraph on what you would like to achieve during the 10-hour workshop to rehana (AT) desipina.org. All ethnicities of playwrights are welcome, but the plays will be cast with a diverse body of Desipina alumni actors.
October 2009
- New York: Pan Asian offers workshops in Mandarin and Acting/Writing Lab (posted 10/30/09)
- Los Angeles: Two job openings at East West Players, deadline 12/4 (posted 10/30/09)
- San Diego: SD Asian American Repertory Theatre calls for 10 minute scripts, deadline 12/1/09 (posted 10/26/09)
- Seattle: Asian American artists win Theatre Puget Sound awards (posted 10/26/09)
Person to Watch: Don Darryl Rivera
From the nomination panel: Mr. Rivera has shown a bold comic sensibility in productions such as The Wizard of Oz at Seattle Children’s Theater.
Testimonial: “His comic timing and sensibility are impeccable, he’s musically gifted, and he’s just waiting for the dramatic role that will blow everybody away with his range. One of my favorite people in all of Seattle.”
Also, Hana Lass was nominated under the Outstanding Actress category. - Los Angeles: Asian American artists snag Ovation nominations (posted10/26/09)
A number of Asian American artists snagged nominations:
Playwrighting for an Original Play
Tim Toyama & Aaron Woolfolk
Bronzeville
Robey Theatre Company
Director of a Musical
Oanh Nguyen
HAIR: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical
The Chance Theater
Jon Lawrence Rivera
The Last Five Years
East West Players
Lead Actor in a Musical
Michael K Lee as Jamie
The Last Five Years
East West Players
Lead Actress in a Musical
Jennifer Paz as Cathy
The Last Five Years
East West Players
Costume Design - Large Theatre
Soojin Lee
Oliver Twist
A Noise Within
Soojin Lee
The Rehearsal
A Noise Within - New York: Impressions from the sixth day of the National Asian American Theatre Festival.
- New York: Impressions from the fifth night of the National Asian American Theatre Festival.
- New York: Impressions from the fourth night of the National Asian American Theatre Festival (posted 10/17/09)
- New York: Impressions from the third night of the National Asian American Theatre Festival (posted 10/16/09)
- New York: Impressions from the second night of the National Asian American Theatre Festival (posted 10/15/09)
- New York: Impressions from the first night of the National Asian American Theatre Festival (posted 10/14/09)
- Philadelphia: Asian Arts Initiative debuts Open Mike series (posted 10/17/09)
- Seattle: In Memoriam
TJ Langley, a great friend and artistic supporter of Asian American theatre in Seattle, died in a climbing accident. A memorial for him will be held this coming Friday, October 16th from 3 to 5pm at the Mountaineers Building in Magnuson Park...Building 67 at 7400 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115 (posted 10/13/09) - Honolulu, HI: Kawananakoa Backstage Theatre presents Flip Out! Storytelling Performance (posted 10/13/09)
- Los Angeles: East West presents Po Boy Tango (posted 10/13/09)
- Los Angeles: Battle of the Screenwriting Pitches, deadline 10/22/09 (posted 10/13/09)
- Honolulu: Kumu Kahua presents Voices From Okinawa (posted 10/13/09)
- Seattle: SIS Productions presents Insatiable 4 (the win!), Seattle's fourth annual festival of Asian American playwrights (posted 10/3/09)
- Los Angeles: Yes, And... Productions presents Songs for a New World (posted 10/3/09)
- Honolulu: Kumu Kahua presents Halloween special (posted 10/3/09)
- New York: Call for scripts (posted 10/3/09)
Now seeking full-length play submissions by female playwrights for Desipina's holiday workshop series, titled Out of the Kitchen and Into the Fire, our very own Desipina-like response to the recent studies on gender equality in theater.
Three scripts will be workshopped over the course of 10 hours, and presented in the series, which will span Manhattan and Brooklyn, during the month of December.
Kicks off on Thursday, December 10 in Manhattan - so Save the Date!
Following each presentation will be a small reception, and the opportunity for talkbacks.
Please email your play submission, your bio, and a short paragraph on what you would like to achieve during the 10-hour workshop to rehana (AT) () desipina.org. All ethnicities of playwrights are welcome, but the plays will be cast with a diverse body of Desipina alumni actors.
September 2009
National: Golamco wins playwriting award
The eight winners of the Helen Merrill Playwriting Award — established by Merrill, the late theatrical agent who devoted her life to nurturing the careers of playwrights — were announced Sept. 20.
The 2009 winners for Distinguished Playwright are Nilo Cruz, Michael Weller and Lanford Wilson. The Emerging Playwright winners are Zakiyyah Alexander, Bathsheba Doran, Michael Golamco (author of Cowboy vs. Samurai and Year Zero), Deborah Laufer and Justin Sherin.- New York: Soomi Kim's Lee/gendary wins three awards at the New York Innovative Theater Awards!!!! (posted 9/25/09)
Outstanding actress in a featured role: Constance Parng
Outstanding director: Suzi Takahashi
and OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION OF A PLAY! - Bay Area: Solano Arty Awards awarded
BANYAN: BEST COSTUME Stacey Loew
BEST SUPPORTING MALE Michael Cappelli
BEST ORIGINAL PRODUCTION "Banyan" written by Jeannie Barroga (posted 9/25/09)
- Philadelphia: Asian Arts Initiative calls for producers and performers Deadline is November 18, 2009 (posted 9/25/09)
- Honolulu: Kumu Kahua presents Voices from Okinawa (posted 9/25/09)
- Chicago: Silk Road Theatre Project unveils South Asian Playwrights website (posted 9/11/09)
- New York: Lark Theatre seeks new plays, deadline November 20, 2009 (posted 9/11/09)
- Stockton: Asian American Repertory Theatre returns (posted 9/11/09)
- Los Angeles: TeAda offers Open House and classes (posted 9/11/09)
- Los Angeles: East West offers Fall '09 writing workshops (posted 9/11/09)
- Los Angeles: Lodestone presents its final show (posted 9/11/09)
- San Francisco: AATC presents world premiere of Gotanda's #5 Angry Red Drum (posted 9/4/09)
- Worldwide: Lumina debuts with double webisode premiere (weekly release, nine webisode season) (posted 9/4/09)
- Seattle: Azeotrope, new Asian American theatre, opens in Seattle (posted 9/4/09)
August 2009
Seattle: Pork Filled Players blasts Pork to the Future with retro 80s sketch comedy show (posted 8/19/09)- New York, Job Posting, deadline October 31 (posted 8/28/09)
- Los Angeles: 10 Minute Play Contest for APIs, deadline Sept. 25 (posted 8/28/09)
- Los Angeles: East West presents Art (posted 8/19/09)
- Los Angeles: East West offers two playwriting workshops for fall (posted 8/19/09)
- Honolulu: The Mikado Project, by Ken Narasaki and Doris Baizley, just won the 2008/09 Kumu Kahua Pacific Rim Playwriting Award. (posted 8/16/09)
- Honolulu: Kumu Kahua auditioning for two one-acts (posted 8/16/09)
- Playwrighting Contest: Deadline August 31 (posted 8/16/09)
- Los Angeles: Ong wins grant for play on visually impaired (posted 8/6/09)
- Minneapolis: Mu presents The Ballad of Magno Rubio (posted 8/6/09)
- New York: Actors wanted for Asian American cabaret
Seeking:
1. Asian American singer-actors who can perform a solo, a duet, and a group number - male and female
2. Asian American piano accompanist who is comfortable with cabaret, broadway, jazz
Gig details:
- professional pay
- you can sing your dream solo if appropriate
- one or two rehearsals
- travel to gig provided
Contact the producer for more details (posted 8/1/09) - Los Angeles: East West presents That's Sooo Vegas August 15 (8/1/09)
July 2009
- Amherst, MA: New WORLD Theatre Suspends Operation
On Tuesday, July 14, an announcement was circulated that, due to significant budget cuts at the University, New WORLD Theater operations and programs would no longer be supported by the Fine Arts Center. The indefinite "suspension" of NWT is to begin September 30, and the Fine Arts Center has stated that a planning committee will be formed (although it is not yet clear what this committee will do). Several staff members were given lay-off notices, and according to a Edward Blaguszewski, a University spokes-person, one staff member is being reassigned.
On July 16, the Daily Hampshire Gazette reported that the staff of New WORLD Theater have been laid off and its operations have been suspended.
A Facebook group has been started to coordinate efforts to save New WORLD.
posted 7/24/09. - Los Angeles: Room to Improv holding auditions (posted 7/24/09)
- Congratulations!
Lee/gendary, Soomi Kim's play about Bruce Lee, has been officially nominated in 6 categories for the New York Innovative theater Awards.
Best lighting designer- Lucrecia Briceno
Best director- Suzi Takahashi
Best choreography- Airon Armstrong and Soomi Kim
best actress in featured role-Constance Parng,
best actress in a lead- Soomi Kim
and BEST PRODUCTION (posted 7/24/09) - Honolulu: Kumu Kahua announces 2009-10 season (posted 7/17/09)
- Los Angeles: East West announcs 2009-10 season (posted 7/17/09)
- Honolulu: Kumu Kahua premieres The Statehood Project (posted 7/17/09)
- Los Angeles: Call for Cabaret artists (posted 7/17/09)
- Chicago: CIRCA Pintig remounts Sister Outlaw (posted 7/17/09)
- Los Angeles: 18 Mighty Mountain Warriors debut new show (posted 7/3/09)
- Hollywood: Disney/ABC taking acting submissions, ends July 10 (posted 7/3/09)
