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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

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AAPC 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!

PlayFest 6 Program

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.

VIDEO OF PLAYFEST 5

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Five AAPC members were included in this year's Boston Theatre Marathon at Boston Playwrights' Theatre on May 1, 2022!

Two Sides of the Same Coin - Michelle M. Aguillon

Golp - Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro

Confessions - Christina R Chan

A Song of Morning - Hortense Gerardo

Playing Chopsticks - Michael Lin

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!

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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.

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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: 

https://stopaapihate.org/

 

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

Asian Women for Health

ASPIRE: Asian Sisters Participating in Reaching Excellence

Chinese Progressive Association

 

National:

Polaris Project

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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

Click here to register

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

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