Program

May 19, Los Angeles, CA
Chung King Road

Produced by A TODO DAR Productions in partnership with Automata, Outside In Theatre, the NEST and the Chinese Chorizo Project

Creative Team

Written by Virginia Grise
Installation Design by Tanya Orellana
Associate Scenic Designers: Josh Vasquez & Brittany White
Lighting Design by Scott Bolman
Soundscape by Daniel Gower
Dramaturgy by Omi Osun Joni L. Jones
Creative Producer: Megan E Carter

Production Team


Production Manager: Maricella Infante
Master Electrician: Dan Tuttle
Builders: Rochelle Concepción & Grant Gerrard
Props: Mallory Birkrem
Lighting Design Assistant: Noemi Barrera
Crew: Gabe, Thomas, Fina, Alejandra, Connor, Julian

Guides:  Lydia Jialu Li 黎珈璐, Marlene Beltran, Omi Osun Joni L. Jones, Feng-Feng Yeh
Voice Over: Marlene Beltran, Elena Campbell-Martínez, Ofelia Esparza, Virginia Grise, Lydia Jialu Li 黎珈璐, and Feng-Feng Yeh 

Cultural Promotoras: Adelina Anthony, Anita Tijerina, Alex Meda, Felicia Montes, and Leigh Gaymon Jones. 

rasgos asiáticos was originally developed at CalArts Center for New Performance in collaboration with the following artists: Alexis Macnab, Tanya Orellana, Christine Ferriter, Colin Yeo, Nan Zhou, Cameron Squire, Tara Griffo, Joseph Jin, Amy Huang, Jacenta Yu, Ashlen Harris, Sharon Gahlla, Kari Swanson, Chu-hsuan Chang, Adam Hunter, Marlene Beltran, Antonia Cruz-Kent, Likun Jing, Lydia Li, Isaias Miranda, Angela Rosado, Keerati Sivakuae, Rose Portillo, Ivan Brizuela, Megan E Carter, Shayok Misha Chowdhury, Antonia Cruz-Kent, Likun Jing, Sophie Blumberg, Heaven Gonzalez, Betty Hu, Maricella Infante, Ingrid Luo, Topher Rohrer, Ruben Rubio, Krystle Tugadi, Kendra Ware, Hannah Cruz, Heaven Gonzalez, Betty Hu, Ani Kazandjian, Jiao-Meng Lin, Tyree Marshall, and Dante Rossi.

rasgos asiáticos is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation Fund Project co-commissioned by CalArts Center for New Performance, Valencia; DiverseWorks in partnership with MECA, Houston; Fulcrum Theater, New York; Performance in the Borderlands, Phoenix and NPN with support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. rasgos asiáticos was created with additional support from the Princess Grace Foundation Special Project Grant, the National Association for Latino Art and Culture, National Latinx Theater Initiative, the MAP Fund, supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Writer/Director Lab at Soho Rep Theater, the Asuncion Award for Queer Playwriting at Pregones Theater and California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Special Thanks

Marissa Chibas, Zac Crowell, Janie Geiser, Gerry Hall, Jessica Hanna, DanRae Wilson, Arlo Sanders, Jon Campbell and OneGoodEye, Sean Fong, Alexis Readinger, Charlie James, Osceola Refetoff, Mr. Wong, Robert Apodaca, the Chung King Road Association, Susan Simpson, Jenny Slattery, Moira MacDonald, Rachel Scandling, Rui Xu, Diablo Sound, Kinetic Lighting, Triscenic Production Services, Omar & Ray

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