Save the Date!
The next AAPC Playfest featuring original plays by AAPC members will be at The Foundry in Cambridge, MA on November 15 and 16 at 7:30pm. For tickets, go to EventBrite.
SAATFest with Off-Kendrik
Featuring plays by Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro, Christina R. Chan, Hortense Gerardo and Greg Lam.
The Ensemble includes Steve Bermundo, Vivian Liu-Somers, Mandy Eckhoff, Karla Goo Lang, Jenine Jacinto, Dev Luthra, Mordecai S. J. Choi, Jamie Lin, Mavis Joy Manilato.
Directing is Michelle M. Aguillon, Dev Luthra, and Alison Yueming Qu.
The festival dates are September 20-21, 2024 at Mosesian Center for the Arts.
Tickets to the event:
https://facebook.com/events/s/south-asian-american-theater-f/1184498362808664/
AAPC playwrights Hortense Gerardo, Greg Lam, and Jamie Lin are among the playwrights featured in Theatre@First's festival of one-act plays which runs from August 9-17 in Somerville. Get a ticket and you can see Jamie Lin's "Closing Doors", Hortense Gerardo's "The Engagement", and Greg Lam's "The Santa Thing" among other works by local playwrights. For more information, see here.
The Dragonfly Plays
Three one act plays by AAPC members presented by the Burlington Players.
February 23-March 9
Chagrin Valley by Hortense Gerardo
Directed by Michelle Aguillon
Featuring Steve Bermundo, Karla Goo Lang and Naomi Ibasitas
Don't Fence Me In by Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro,
Directed by Michelle Aguillon
Featuring Violet Villanueva, Mordecai SJ Choi, and Chantha Luk
Secret Asian Man by Dev Luthra
Directed by Vincent Siders
Featuring Dev Luthra
The Playwrights, Cast, and Crew of PlayFest 6
PlayFest 6 Postcard
AAPC Members at PlayFest 6
The Playwrights, Cast, and Crew of PlayFest 6
For two nights on September 8 & 9, 2023, AAPC presented a night of original short plays for the sixth time for PlayFest 6!
Troublemaker by Christina Chan
Funny Drone by Hortense Gerardo
Buried Alive by Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro
Secret Menu by Vivian Liu-Somers
Golden Record by Greg Lam
Solving the Mystery of the Queen’s Necklace by Michael Lin
The Takeover by George S. Yip
Deadline by Jamie Lin
It's Complicated: Peeling the Onion by Dev Luthra
Directors: Alison Yeuming Qu, Kai Chao, Michelle M. Aguillon
Cast: Parbati Brahma, Shreyan Chattopadhyay, Mordecai S.J. Choi, Karen Dervin, Mandy Eckhoff, Trevor Gerard Frederick, Gabrielle Hatcher, Bowen Huang, Jenine Florence Jacinto, Jeff Lee, Jenny S. Lee, Vivian Liu-Somers, Dev Luthra, Mavis Manaloto, Buyile Narwele, Ankur Singh, Dustin Teuber
Stage Manager: Sarah O’Neill
Sound Designer: Vyren Gray
Musician (Pianist): Jeongweon (John) Lee
Thank you to Starlight Square Theatre for hosting us again!
The 5th Annual AAPC Playfest highlights the work of Boston-based Asian American and Asian Pacific Islander playwrights, actors and directors on Friday, July 22 and Saturday July 23 at Starlight Square.
This program was supported in part by funding from Starlight Square, a 2022 Summer Festival Grant from Mass Cultural Council (a state agency), and CHUANG Stage.
The 4th Annual AAPC Playfest highlights the work of Boston-based Asian American and Asian Pacific Islander playwrights, actors and directors.
We are thrilled to share with you eight new ten minute plays live and for free at Starlight Square in Central Square, Cambridge, MA one weekend only, thanks to funding from a Live Arts Boston (LAB) 2020 Grant from the Boston Foundation. This program is also supported in part by a grant from the Falmouth Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.
Join us on Friday, September 17 at 7pm or Saturday, September 18 at 2pm & 7pm to see new work by exciting voices from the Asian American and Pacific Islander playwright community in Boston!
The Asian-American Playwright Collective (AAPC), in collaboration with the The Umbrella Stage Company, will host Ginger Klee MS, LMFT, LPCC, who will lead an AAPI Self-Care Workshop on Friday, May 28 at 7:00 to 8:30 pm EDT.
Click here to register.
As part of AAPI Heritage Month, this workshop will address the rise of anti-Asian racism and violence, and will focus on mental health and self-care for members of the extended AAPI artist community of Greater Boston. The workshop is FREE and will be moderated by Michelle Aguillon (AAPC), Hortense Gerardo (AAPC), Stewart Ikeda (Umbrella), and Sarah Shin (Asian American Theatre Artists of Boston - AATAB).
This project is made possible in part by a LAB Grant to AAPC from The Boston Foundation.
To ensure a safe space this event will not be recorded and is reserved for AAPI only. We appreciate your understanding.
AAPC Statement on Anti-Asian Violence
The Asian American Playwright Collective is enraged and heartbroken by the murders of eight people, six of them Asian American women, in Atlanta. They were caretakers, parents, co-workers, relatives, friends, and neighbors. We grieve with their families, friends and the Atlanta Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community.
We are incensed, yet unfortunately, not entirely surprised by the contrast between local law enforcement’s sympathetic response to the white gunman and their motivation versus the relative lack of humanity offered to describe the victims and the paucity of condolences extended to their survivors. The Atlanta shootings must be acknowledged as a hate crime rooted in white supremacy and misogyny.
During this pandemic, the frequency and intensity of harassment and violence against Asians have increased exponentially, spurred on by anti-Asian rhetoric from those in power. Women have accounted for more than 68% of reported incidences of anti-Asian harassment and violence. Our beloved elderly are being assaulted and killed in public spaces.
Racism against AAPI communities is deeply entrenched in American history, but has been rendered invisible by white supremacy and normalized anti-Asian rhetoric. AAPI men have been scapegoated and marginalized. AAPI women have been hypersexualized, part of a larger legacy of Western imperialism and gender-based violence. AAPI trans, nonbinary, and gender non-conforming people continue to be erased and excluded. All AAPI groups have been dehumanized.
Enough is enough. We will not be silenced as the “Model Minority,” a divisive moniker that creates false divisions among groups of color and only serves to bolster a racist agenda. As AAPI artists, we will use our art to make our voices heard and work towards a better world, one where all of our communities can be safe from violence.
Respectfully submitted,
The Asian American Playwright Collective
Action Steps and Organizations to donate to:
Engage:
Massachusetts Town Hall on Anti-Asian Racism on Thursday, March 25th at 6PM
Get support:
Asian Mental Health Collective
Smithsonian APA Care Package: Cultural Nutrients for Times Like This
To report an AAPI Hate Crime:
Donate:
To support the victims and their families:
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Atlanta
Local organizations:
Asian American Resource Workshop: AARW
Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence
ASPIRE: Asian Sisters Participating in Reaching Excellence
Chinese Progressive Association
National:
A. Rey Pamatmat In Conversation With BIPOC Playwrights
The Asian American Playwright Collective (AAPC) invites you to a conversation between playwright A. Rey Pamatmat and artists of color.
Sat, January 30, 2021
7:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST
A. Rey Pamatmat’s most recent work is part of a collaborative libretto for Desert In, premiering in 2021 at the Boston Lyric Opera/operabox.tv. His newest play is Safe, Three Queer Plays, which follows the seismic changes in Queer America through a gay man of color’s life. Plays include after all the terrible things I do (Milwaukee Rep, Huntington, AboutFace), Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them (Humana Festival, Company One), House Rules (Ma-Yi), Thunder Above, Deeps Below (Second Generation), and DEVIANT. Short works include Tilda Swinton Betrayed Us (Keen Company), This Is How It Ends (59E59), and Gratuitous Nudity… Bad Broccoli (Actors Theatre of Louisville). For television, he wrote on NOS4A2 and is developing a pilot with AMC. Rey’s plays have been translated into Spanish and Russian and performed in Moscow, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. They are published by Samuel French and Playscripts. Rey is a member of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab and was a Hodder, PoNY, and Princess Grace Fellow.
Reserved ticket holders will receive an invitation to the Webinar 48 hours prior to the event.
AAPC PlayFest 2 (October 2019)
Videography by The Loop Lab
June 20, 2019 Projected pic of AAPC at The Boston Foundation's Celebration of 2019 LAB Grantees.
The cast of the 2019 AAPC PlayFest in Woods Hole, July 6, 2019. Dustin Teuber, Jude Torres, Alexander Holdren, Vivan Liu-Somers, Kara Chu Nelson, Quang Milligan
Fresh Ink Theatre, Ink Spots Reading – Thursday, November 2, 2017 The Token Fallopians of Middleton Heights - Pao Arts Center Pictured in Photo Left to Right: Vivian Liu-Somers Kim Klasner Michael Hisamoto Michael Tow
June 20, 2019 Projected pic of AAPC at The Boston Foundation's Celebration of 2019 LAB Grantees.