The theme is “I Never…”
Over thirty Asian American artists crash-banging into each other.
The form is Vaudeville.
They are making these things over the course of a week.
There may be clowning, dance, songs, short plays,
hybrid theater and everything in between.
There will most certainly be mayhem. And possibly magic.

Featuring brand new works by:

“The Wonder Brothers”
written by Clarence Coo, directed by Meiyin Wang
Performed by Mason Lee & Matt Park

“I Never Thought I’d Say”
written & directed by Kristine Haruna Lee
Performed by Jennifer Lim, Eugene Oh & Maureen Sebastian

“The Male of the Species”
written by Mrinalini Kamath, directed by Suzi Takahashi
Performed by Rajesh Bose, Ruy Iskandar & Greta Lee

“I Never Had Chocolate-Covered Candy Hearts”
written by Victor Maog, directed by Meiyin Wang
Performed by Eugene Oh & Nitya Vidyasagar

“Way Out”
written by Samantha Chanse, directed by Suzi Takahashi
Performed by Angela Lin

“Putting on a Show”
written by Deen, directed by Suzi Takahashi
Performed by Rajesh Bose, Ruy Iskandar & Nitya Vidyasagar

“I Never Do Magic”
performed by Ruy Iskandar

“Cello, Goodbye”
written by Don Nguyen, directed by Ralph Peña
Performed by Mason Lee

“Pretty, Precious Unicorns”
written by Nora Chau, directed by Ralph Peña
Performed by Jackie Chung. Ruy Iskandar, Greta Lee & Maureen Sebastian

“Seizing the Last Aloha Dance”
written by Edgar Mendoza, directed by Nelson Eusebio
Performed by Ruy Iskander & Jennifer Lim

“I Never”
performed written by Matt Park

“Oh, Never Mime”
written & directed by Qui Nguyen
Performed by Eugene Oh, Maureen Sebastian & Paco Tolson

“The McDonough 21”
written by Lloyd Suh, directed by Nelson Eusebio
Performed by Eugene Oh & Matt Park

“To the End”
written by Patricia Jang, directed by Nelson Eusebio
Performed by Jackie Chung, Greta Lee, Eugene Oh & Matt Park

Friday, February 25
8:30pm SOLD OUT!

at HERE Arts Center
145 6th Avenue
New York, NY 10013-1548

Enter on Dominick St.
One block south of Spring St.
map

Click here to reserve online

This production is being presented through HEREstay, Here’s curated rentals program, which provides artists with subsidized space and equipment, as well as technical and administrative support.

The theme is “I Never…”
Over thirty Asian American artists crash-banging into each other.
The form is Vaudeville.
They are making these things over the course of a week.
There may be clowning, dance, songs, short plays,
hybrid theater and everything in between.
There will most certainly be mayhem. And possibly magic.

“The Wonder Brothers”
written by Clarence Coo, directed by Meiyin Wang
Performed by Mason Lee & Matt Park

“I Never Thought I’d Say”
written & directed by Kristine Haruna Lee
Performed by Jennifer Lim, Eugene Oh & Maureen Sebastian

“The Male of the Species”
written by Mrinalini Kamath, directed by Suzi Takahashi
Performed by Rajesh Bose, Ruy Iskandar & Greta Lee

“I Never Had Chocolate-Covered Candy Hearts”
written by Victor Maog, directed by Meiyin Wang
Performed by Eugene Oh & Nitya Vidyasagar

“Way Out”
written by Samantha Chanse, directed by Suzi Takahashi
Performed by Angela Lin

“Putting on a Show”
written by Deen, directed by Suzi Takahashi
Performed by Rajesh Bose, Ruy Iskandar & Nitya Vidyasagar

“I’ve Never Done Magic”
performed by Ruy Iskandar

“Cello, Goodbye”
written by Don Nguyen, directed by Ralph Peña
Performed by Mason Lee

“Pretty, Precious Unicorns”
written by Nora Chau, directed by Ralph Peña
Performed by Jackie Chung. Ruy Iskandar, Greta Lee & Maureen Sebastian

“Seizing the Last Aloha Dance”
written by Edgar Mendoza, directed by Nelson Eusebio
Performed by Ruy Iskander & Jennifer Lim

“I Never”
performed written by Matt Park

“Oh, Never Mime”
written & directed by Qui Nguyen
Performed by Eugene Oh, Maureen Sebastian & Paco Tolson

“The McDonogh 21”
written by Lloyd Suh, directed by Nelson Eusebio
Performed by Eugene Oh & Matt Park

“To the End”
written by Patricia Jang, directed by Nelson Eusebio
Performed by Jackie Chung, Greta Lee, Eugene Oh & Matt Park

Friday, February 25
8:30pm

at HERE Arts Center
145 6th Avenue
New York, NY 10013-1548

Enter on Dominick St.
One block south of Spring St.
map

Click here to reserve online

This production is being presented through HEREstay, Here’s curated rentals program, which provides artists with subsidized space and equipment, as well as technical and administrative support.

• From our national 10-minute play contest, FREE RANGE, come three brand new works chosen to be commissioned into full length productions! Check out who the lucky ducks are below.
• We have some great breaking news from 2g friends who want you to eat cake for the arts, and get yourself disOriented. Scroll down and check it out.

And finally, coming soon… 14: Instant Vaudeville, playing at HERE, Feb 26-28.

New Commissions!

The results are in! In November, you came to see the staged readings of the winners of our first national 10-minute play contest, FREE RANGE. Of those magnificent works, three have been chosen to be commissioned by 2g to adapt their 10-minute play into full-lengths!
They are…

Boni Alvarez for Add Like Poke Tag
Miyoko Conley for The Joke
Susan Stanton for Furball

Also, through your votes, the Award for Audience Favorite goes to…

Daniel Ho for Don Quixote at Tienanmen Square

Congratulations to these artists! We look forward to helping them develop their riveting stories into full length productions!

Be a taster in Q Up’s 2011 Cake Pageant!

2011 Cake Pageant Fundraising Competition

Rising Circle is hosting a Fundraiser Benefit for Q Up this Sunday where the bravest of the brave are profiling their best baked goods in a taste challenge. You are invited to be a guest aficionado assisting us with the tasting and judging of the goods. Each cake will be judged on delectability, texture, personality and presentation! Prizes for the Audience Favorite Cake!

Proceeds from this event will benefit a wonderful cause: Q Up, Rising Circle’s storytelling and performing arts program for Asian American and South Asian high school girls from Queens:
http://www.youtube.com/risingcircle#p/u/3/d0YlSRkapvs

Your donation of $25 in advance; $30 day of event will gain you entry into the Cake Pageant! Kids are welcome. Under 18: pay your age! Click “Q Up” at
www.risingcircle.org for further details.

When: This Sunday! January 30, 2011; 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Where: The Kitchen – 512 West 19th Street, NYC
(Between 10th and 11th Avenues on the south side of the street.)

Check out 3-Time NY Innovative Theatre Award winning Theatre C’s production of disOriented written by Korean-Chilean playwright Kyoung H. Park; special opening at 7pm on Wednesday, February 16!

presents

disOriented

Written by Kyoung H. Park
Directed by Carlos Armesto

February 16 – March 5
Thurs-Sat 7:30 pm; Sat 3:00 pm, Sun 4:00pm

FEATURING
Ariel Estrada*, Daniel K. Isaac*, Jinn S. Kim*,
Julian Charles Leong*, Bert Matias, Amy Waschke*, Virginia Wing*
*Appearing courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association

…with Yanghee Lee as JIN HEE the dancing spirit

disOriented tells the story of Ju Yeon, an immigrant living in New York, who has distanced herself from her Korean roots. When a sudden crisis hits her family, she must return to Korea and face the parents and the life she abandoned long ago. A dancing spirit caught between the worlds of tradition and modernity guides us through past and present, propelling the family members to their ultimate fates.

Tickets $18
Purchase tickets:
Online: www.ticketcentral.com
By Phone:Ticket Central at (212) 279-4200

Peter Jay Sharp Theater
416 W. 42nd Street, 4th Fl.
New York, NY 10036
(Btwn 9th & 10th Avenues)
Directions: Take the A/C/E to 42nd Street or the N/Q/R or 1/2/3/7 to Times Square

For more info visit www.theatreC.org/disoriented

FREE RANGE is 2g’s first National 10-minute play contest. We put out the call for brand new plays by Asian American playwrights and we found some exciting, challenging new voices. Now, we’re pairing directors and actors with the playwrights to put these new works on their feet in staged readings. All these artists are getting the space to roam and play, free range style. We’d love for you to join us.

The plays:
Redbird by Jim Yang
The Duties and Responsibilities of Being a Sidekick by Eric “Pogi” Sumangil
Furball by Susan Soon Hee Stanton
The Joke by Miyoko Conley
Mermaids by Jessica Huang
Add Like Poke Tag by Boni B. Alvarez
Don Quixote at Tiananmen Square by Daniel Ho

Meet the Playwrights

Directors: Victor Maog, Colette Robert, Nandita Shenoy, Suzi Takahashi
Cast: Yung-I Chang, Jackie Chung, Ken Leung, Eugene Oh, Debargo Sanyal, Jon Norman Schneider, Ching Valdes-Aran, Nitya Vidyasagar

Friday, November 19th @ 8pm
Saturday, November 20th @ 3pm & 8pm

Admissions is FREE

The Flamboyan Theater
@
Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center
107 Suffolk Street
Lower East Side

Click Here to Reserve Online

Click here to support

the first annual

2g Ten-Minute Play Contest.

The contest is designed to foster the work of new and emerging Asian-American playwrights. Finalists will have a public staged reading in NYC in Fall 2010 using a shared company of actors and directors (to be decided upon by the Second Generation producers), with rehearsals occurring a few days beforehand. In addition, up to three of the finalists will be commissioned by 2g to adapt their ten minute play into a full-length by a committee headed by Princess Grace Award-winning playwright A. Rey Pamatmat. Submissions are now being accepted and the final deadline for submissions is October 1st, 2010.

Original play submissions will be accepted from any Asian-American playwright who has not yet had a professional full-length production (workshops, readings, and showcases are fine; writers who have had an Off-Broadway, Broadway, or LORT level production are ineligible… sorry David Henry Hwang!). By submitting to the contest, you attest that the play is your own original work, that you own the full rights to the play, and that Second Generation is authorized to present the play as a staged reading if selected.

Heideman Award-winning playwright Michael Lew will adjudicate selections. Plays will be read anonymously by a cranky submission committee so please follow these instructions exactly.

1) You may only submit 1 play.

2) Your play must be in Word or PDF format and no longer than 10 minutes in length (approximately 10 pages in 12 point font using standard margins and play formatting).

3) Write an email to literary@2g.org In the body of the email, include your play title as well as your full contact information (phone number, address, and email address).

4) Attach an ANONYMOUS version of your play. Your name (or any identifying information) should not be contained anywhere in the play, the title page, or in the Word/PDF document name. The first page of your play should be a cover sheet with the play title only.

5) All finalists will be contacted by November 1, 2010. If you would like to know the status of your application (within reason), feel free to follow up with an email to literary@2g.org and we will respond to your query in a semi-timely fashion.

Best of luck!

2g

a workshop presentation of

A VERY DESI CHRISTMAS

a new musical by Samrat Chakrabarti & Sanjiv Jhaveri

Based on the hit 11-minute version from Desipina & Co.’s groundbreaking Seven.11 Convenience Theatre series, we are thrilled to participate in the development of this brand new full-length musical.

CHECK OUT this video with Samrat and Sanjiv on the making of the play!

With: Meetu Chilana, Andrew Guilarte, Kevin Smith Kirkwood, Austin Ku, Ephraim Lopez, Olivia Oguma, Bhavesh Patel, Nitya Vidyasagar

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14th at 5pm

at ART/NY
South Oxford Space
138 South Oxford Street
The Great Room
Brooklyn
(Near BAM — take the C to Lafayette or the Q,N,R,2,3,4,5 to Atlantic)

RSVP to see this special FREE event — seating is limited.
Send an email to desipina@desipina.org with the subject line DESI CHRISTMAS.
Please specify how many tickets you would like.

plus

an open rehearsal of the work-in-progress on
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12th at 8pm

at The Lark Studio
939 Eighth Avenue
Manhattan
Room 204 (2nd Floor)

PLEASE NOTE: seating for this open rehearsal is extremely limited and for invited guests only.
Send an invitation request to desipina@desipina.org with the subject line OPEN REHEARSAL.
This is NOT a presentation of the Lark Play Development Center.