THEA 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 34: Greg Watanabe, David Henry Hwang, Magnuson Act
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Interview with genny lim today"s revolutionary women of color. Genny lim (1946- : chinese american playwright, poet, performer, educator, born in san francisco, wrote paper angels in 1982 about chinese immigrants coming to the u. s. at angel island in san. Francisco bay (ellis island of the west coast: one of her ancestors was detained there, set in 1915 after chinese laborers had helped build railroads when u. s. saw no economic need to admit. Wwii: 2012-2015, he stars in allegiance in ca, then on broadway, calling it his legacy project , based on his experiences in the internment camps, after coming out publicly in 2005, takei is a staunch lgbtqa activist. In "77 she established pan asian rep theatre using the money she saved from her starring role in the. Broadway play the basic training of pavlo hummel: wanted to create a theatre co. that provided roles for asian american actors that weren"t geishas girls or houseboys.
