Pan Asian Repertory Theatre

520 8th Avenue, Suite 314
New York, NY 10018
212-868-4030 tel
212-868-4033 fax
PanAsian@aol.com
www.panasianrep.org

Area of Inerest:
Theatrical Company

Ethnic Community Served:
Pan Asian

Description:
Pan Asian Rep is the professional theatre founded to celebrate Asian American artistic expressiveness on the living stage. It became a major New York theatre presence in 1983 with the long off-Broadway run of Yellow Fever, introducing the tough Japanese private eye with a heart of gold, Sam Shikaze. The company grew out of Tisa Chang's experimental work at LaMama ETC with a core of Asian actors in such benchmark bi-lingual productions as the Peking Opera adaptation of Return of the Phoenix and the intercultural version of A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Memorable productions helped to expand the boundaries of American theatre, including: Lao She's Teahouse, spanning 50 years of modern Chinese history; Ghashiram Kotwal, the Marathi musical expose of Brahmin abuse of privilege; and the adaptation, Shogun MacBeth.

Pan Asian Rep is now the largest producer of Asian American theatre with regular international and national touring and residencies. In 1992, the company began a five year plan towards institutionalization with support from the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund for New Audiences Program and a 1994 Challenge Grant from The National Endowment for the Arts.

Staff:
Tisa Chang - Artistic/Producing Director
Sylvie H. Fan - Communications Director

Source:
http://www.panasianrep.org

Submitted by:
AIA Staff - RG