Current Productions
(2012-2013)
Winter
Trying to Find Chinatown
by David Henry Hwang
Performance Dates: January 31 and February 1, 2
Location: TBA
Director: Sarah Jiang '16 Trying to Find Chinatown
by David Henry Hwang
Performance Dates: January 31 and February 1, 2
Location: TBA
Stage Manager: Janet Phan '16
Producer (Logistics): Anthony Van '16
Producer (Publicity & Communications): Annabeth Leow '16
Lighting, Set & Costume Designer: Dina Hassan '15
And our illustrious cast:
Allen Xu (as Ronnie Chang)
Justin Bui (as Benjamin Wang)
The 24 Hour Play Project
Dates: Feb 16, 6pm to Feb 17, 6pm
Everyone of all experience and skill levels interested in any aspect of theater is highly encouraged to come out for this one-day frenzy!
Bring a friend too!
Spring
Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller
Performance Dates: May 9, 10, and 11
Location: Roble Theater (dormitory) 8pm
Director: Dina Hassan '15 Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller
Performance Dates: May 9, 10, and 11
Location: Roble Theater (dormitory) 8pm
Producers: Ken Savage '14, Jenny Barin '14
Death of a Salesman tells the story of Willy Loman- a failed traveling salesman and patriarch of the Loman family. His two sons Biff and Happy have struggled to reach their full potential and currently live at home. Linda, their mother and Willy's wife, struggles to salvage her relationship with her husband and sons. While the world continues to progress forward, the Lomans are stuck in life.
This iconic American play won the Pulitzer Prize in 1949 and has won numerous Tony Awards for best play and revival.
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Past Productions
2012 - 2013
(Autumn)
The 25th Annual Putnam Spelling Bee
The 25th Annual Putnam Spelling Bee
by Rachel Sheinkin, music and lyrics by William Finn
This Tony Award winning Broadway musical is about six spellers determined to win the bee to prove their worth. They face puberty, demanding families, and their own overachiever-complexes. Each speller comes to compete but leaves the bee with lessons more valuable than winning. This musical is filled with strange characters, heartfelt stories, strained relationships, and hilarious music. You've got to see it to bee-lieve it!
Cast
Kasie Udo-Okoye (as Vice Principal Panch)
Harshitha Ramesh (as Rona Lisa Perretti)
Troy Yang (as Mitch Mahoney)
Andre Amarotico (as Chip Tolentino)
Dylan Kim (as Leaf Coneybear)
Ellen Le (as Olive Ostrovsky)
Anna Gu (as Marcy Park)
Max Savage (as William Barfée)
Jenna Wisch (as Logainne Schwartzandgrubenierre)
Production Team
Asia Chiao --- Executive Producer
Ken Savage --- Director
Aldric Ulep --- Vocal Director
Jenny Barin --- Stage Manager
Links
Facebook Event Stanford Arts article
Trying to Find Chinatown
by David Henry Hwang
Lost on his way to Chinatown, Benjamin asks Ronnie for directions. Ronnie, playing his violin on the street for money, is offended that just because he looks Asian he automatically knows where Chinatown is. Caucasian looking, Benjamin was adopted by an Asian-American family at birth. He revels in his heritage and is looking for the house where his father was born. Ronnie, on the other hand, throws himself into all things American and finds it hard to sympathize with Benjamin who, when he finds his father's house, is filled with a special elation.
Cast
Allen Xu (as Ronnie Chang)
Justin Bui (as Benjamin Wang)
Production Team
Sarah Jiang --- Director
Janet Phan --- Stage Manager
Anthony Van --- Producer (Logistics)
Annabeth Leow --- Produer (Publicity & Communications)
Dina Hassan --- Lighting, Set & Costume Designer
Links
Facebook Event Stanford STATIC
2011 - 2012
(Spring)
The Secret to Raising Successful Children
The Secret to Raising Successful Children
by Deanna Tan
This original play examines several contemporary Asian American issues, e.g. coming out in Asian families, parental pressure, and questions of image and identity, through the lens of one family’s struggle to understand each other and what it means to succeed.
Sponsored by Spark! Grant
Cast
Julie Nam
IJay Espinoza
Jenny Barin
Kenneth Savage
Asia Chiao
Allister Bernal
David Fifield
Production Team
Deanna Tan --- Director
Amanda Le --- Producer
Catherine Zaw --- Producer
Daniel Vinh -- Stage Manager
Ava Lindstrom --- Rehearsal Stage Manager
Kevin Chow --- Sound Designer
Heidi Thorsen --- Publicity Designer
Links
Main Website
Facebook Event
2010 - 2011
(Autumn/Winter/Spring) Pawn
2009 - 2010
(Winter)
F.O.B.
F.O.B.
by David Henry Hwang
F.O.B. is told in a style that moves quickly between myth and reality, with the characters occasionally speaking directly to the audience. Grace and Dale are cousins, living in the Los Angeles area and attending college
Meaning “fresh off the boat,” this striking play explores the conflicts and similarities between two Chinese Americans and a Chinese exchange student still steeped in the customs and beliefs of the old world.
Cast
Alex Chen
Joohee Ahn
James Xie
Production Team
Holly Bliss Rogers --- Director
Links
Facebook Event
Beginning Tomorrow
by Kolby Hanson
Four college seniors are on the verge of the rest of their lives. As Darren's fiancée Annie is lost in her career possibilities, he questions his love, his friendships, and his picket fence life. Against the best wisdom of his best friend Sam, he falls for a girl with too many problems to count. With his future spread in front of him, he must figure out, for the first time, what he really wants.
Cast
Kevin Baumgartner
Amanda Le
Deanna Tan
Karen Young
Production Team
Kolby Hanson --- Director
Links
Facebook Event
2008 - 2009
(Winter)
Forgetting Tiburon
Forgetting Tiburon
by Karmia Cao
A student-written play about the burning of historic Angel Island and the bridges never built.
Cast
Holly Rogers
Allie Dunworth
Theresa Zhen
Terence Li
Albert Chu
Dong Nghi Huynh
Prachi Priyam
Ben Earle
Kerry Mahuron
Mario Suntanu
Karen Young
Victor Luong
Production Team
Karmia Cao --- Director
Alex Chen --- Stage Manager
Sakshi Agarwal --- Stage Manager
Rich Liu --- Assistant Director
Rachel Yong --- Assistant Director
Nguyen Pham --- Event Booking
Amanda Le --- Financial Officer
Henry Tsai --- Henry Tsai
Links
Facebook Event
Cowboy vs. Samurai
by Michael Golamco
Travis Park is a high school English teacher and the only Korean American man living in a dusty cowboy town known as Breakneck, Wyoming.
And when a gorgeous, whip-smart Asian American woman moves into town, he immediately falls for her; the only problem is that she only dates white men.
In this savagely funny and often moving comic re-telling of Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac, one man must choose allegiance between his cowboy friend (a dim, handsome, Caucasian P.E. teacher named Del) and his Asian Brother-with-a-Capital-B (crazed, militant Asian of Unknown Origin, Chester). He must choose between the Asian American and the American within himself – between Cowboy vs. Samurai – in a pursuit of a love that may only be as real as the love letters he writes for someone else.
Cast
Albert Chu
Ben Kessler-Reynolds
Amanda Le
Rich Liu
Production Team
Terence Li --- Director
Links
Facebook Event
2007 - 2008
(Autumn) Black Comedy
(Spring)
R&L
R&L
by Takeo Rivera
R&L is an ode to a modern Asian America through a combination of vignettes and collaborative spoken word poetry. It is the collective story of eight women and men struggling to find a sense of self in an era in which "we've killed the heroes in ourselves. From car maintenance to violin lessons, from college impostors to true love, it is a confrontation of the ugly and the beautiful in the 21st century Asian America.
Co-sponsored by Okada House, the Asian American Students Association, and the Institute for Diversity in the Arts
Cast
Rich Liu
Rachel Yong
Mark Marzona
Brian Yoo
Natalia Duong
Nguyen Pham
Charlie Wang
Yin Yin Wu
Violetta Taing
Laurel Scotland-Stewart
Adrian Johnson
Kate Hyder
Henry Tsai
Production Team
Rachel Anderson --- Director
Kenneth Lam --- Producer
Gloria Lin --- Producer
Holly Rogers -- Stage Manager
Links
YouTube Trailer
Stanford Daily Review
Fogel Review
Facebook Event
