23/05/2024
We are so excited to announce that next Wednesday, May 29th at 4:30 PM ET, we will host a special TCG Books Presents panel discussion featuring Lauren Yee, Haruna Lee, Shayok Misha Chowdhury, and Dr. Ju Yon Kim on the past, present, and future of Asian American & Pacific Islander drama! This discussion will be livestreamed on our YouTube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP6M9hCsqrg
Lauren Yee is a playwright and screenwriter. Her plays include Cambodian Rock Band (with music by Dengue Fever), The Great Leap, and King of the Yees. Cambodian Rock Band and The Great Leap and Other Plays are forthcoming from TCG Books.
Haruna Lee (they/them) is a Taiwanese/Japanese/American theater maker, screenwriter, educator and community steward. Plays include War Le***an, Memory Retrograde, plural (love) and Su***de Forest for which they received an Obie Award for Playwriting and Conception and was on the 2020 Kilroys List.
Shayok Misha Chowdhury is the Obie and Whiting Award winning writer and director of Public Obscenities, recently named one of three finalists for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Currently, he is collaborating with his physicist mother on a concert-memoir called Rheology, for which he was awarded a Sundance Asian American Fellowship. The piece will premiere at The Bushwick Starr next year, as a co-production with HERE Arts Center and Ma-Yi Theatre Company.
Ju Yon Kim is the Patsy Takemoto Mink Professor of English at Harvard University. Her research and teaching interests include modern and contemporary American literature and theater, with a particular focus on Asian American culture. Her first book, The Racial Mundane: Asian American Performance and the Embodied Everyday, received the Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize from the New England American Studies Association. Kim serves on the board of Boston’s Company One Theatre.