CHUANG at Home Online Series

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Asian American Theatermakers in Conversation: Mengtong GUAN AND ALISON QU

Wed 4/29 7PM (EDT)

Mengtong’s work with Ping Pong Arts has bridged China and the world in performing arts. As a producer, she brings artists together and serves the global community through various mediums, including theater, dance and music. Alison Qu, the Co-Founder and Executive Producer of CHUANG Stage, will be in conversation with Mengtong on how to build and invest in a career as a producer, works that they are excited to globally present, and what it means to be a community arts leader at this special moment of the world.

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Mengtong Guan was born in Beijing and received her Bachelor's degrees in English and Fine Arts from Peking University. She was a regular contributor to Beijing’s National Center for the Performing Arts magazine from 2009 to 2012, concert master of Peking University Symphony Orchestra, and music instructor for “Dean D’art” that works with underserved children in Beijing suburbs to build their self-confidence through theater and music.
In 2014 Mengtong was hired as Production Assistant for the China portion of Mark Morris Dance Group’s “Excursions” world tour, and has since then been a full time staff with Ping Pong Productions in China and USA. Mengtong participated in Atelier for Young Festival Managers by European Festival Association in Gwangju 2015, and is an Emerging Leaders of New York Arts Fellow for 2016-17.

Originally from China, Alison Qu is a director, dramaturg and a creative producer. Alison is the inaugural Cutler Creative Producing and Engagement Fellow at ArtsEmerson and the Co-Founder and Executive Producer of CHUANG Stage. She is the recipient of 2020 LMDA/KCACTF Region 1 Student Dramaturgy Award. She is expecting a BFA degree from Emerson College in May, 2020.

Asian American Theatermakers in Conversation: Celine Song and Max Yu

WED 4/22 7PM (EDT)

Just graduated from UCLA, Max Yu is the recipient of 2019 Relentless Award for his play Nightwatch; Celine Song has won over both Boston and New York with Endlings and will continue to mesmerize us with her writing in the Amazon series The Wheel of Time. Celine and Max will be in conversation about the craft and love of being a storyteller, and how they find themselves in this industry that lustfully chase after them on HowlRound TV on Wednesday 22 April 2020 at 4:00 p.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC-7) / 6：00 p.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC-5) / 7:00 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC-4).

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Celine Song’s play Endlings received its world premiere in 2019 at American Repertory Theater, and New York premiere in 2020 at New York Theatre Workshop. It has been named a finalist for the 2020 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and it was selected for the 2018 O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. The play was also included on the 2017 Kilroys list. Celine is a member of the Public Theater’s 2016-2017 Emerging Writers Group, Ars Nova’s 2014-2015 Play Group, and The Orchard Project's inaugural NYC Greenhouse 2018. She was a Playwrights Realm Writing Fellow from 2017-2018, a 2014 & 2016 Great Plains Theatre Conference Playwright, and she was a 2017 semifinalist for the P73 Playwriting Fellowship. Her play Tom & Eliza was a semifinalist for the American Playwriting Foundation's 2016 Relentless Award. She holds an M.F.A. from Columbia. Celine is a staff writer on Amazon's The Wheel of Time, and she is developing a project for television with Diablo Cody and Beth Behrs.

Max Yu is the 2019 recipient of the American Playwriting Foundation's Relentless Award. The 22-year-old writer/performer won the fifth annual accolade for his play Nightwatch, which he wrote as a senior at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he majored in playwriting. He grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and currently lives in Shanghai, China, where he teaches English.

Asian American Theatermakers in Conversation: LIFU WANG AND HAOSONG YANG

Fri 4/24 7PM(EDT)

Lifu trained at the Central Academy of Drama while Haosong spent years in the US training system as an actor. How are these two training systems different from one another? Let’s prepare ourselves to delve deep into acting methodologies and terms as we hear from two great actors as they reflect on the acting training in the US and China.

*This conversation will be in Mandarin Chinese

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Alien of Extraordinary Ability with Playwright Zhu Yi

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SAT 4/18 EDT 2:00-4:00PM

Find your inner actor and get to know New York based playwright Zhu Yi’s work by joining us for a night of play reading, followed by a Q&A with playwright Zhu Yi herself! We’ll be choosing from her collection of short plays Alien of Extraordinary Ability and you’ll have the opportunity to be an actor or audience member during this livestream reading. Join us to celebrate the elegance and grittiness in Zhu Yi’s work, either reading out loud or cozy up with your tea!
Both groups will have the opportunity to participate in the Q&A session with Zhu Yi afterwards.

ZHU Yi is a New York based playwright, born and raised in Shanghai, China. MFA in Playwriting, Columbia University. She received the First Prize at 2015 World Sinophone Drama Competition, and Shanghai Drama Valley's 2015 Outstanding Playwright of the Year Award. She is an alumni of Ensemble Studio Theatre's Obie Award-winning playwrights group Youngblood, 2012-2013 Emerging Artist Fellow at New York Theatre Workshop, a member of the Royal Court Theatre's International Playwrights Programme, Ma-Yi Writers Lab, Clubbed Thumb Theater's writers group, and Dramatists Guild of America.