Once I was a stone, una piedra, ek pathar

Created & performed by Shebana Coelho

A solo work about a stone lost at sea that finds its way home, only to face a new world that upends old notions of race, place and purpose. The play is a mixture of poetry, monologues, and dance drawn from flamenco and bharatanatyam (Indian classical dance), in English with fragments of Hindi and Spanish. Duration 45 minutes.

Shebana Coelho is a performer and writer, originally from India, and currently in New Mexico. Her solo plays include The Good Manners of Colonized Subjects, Once I was a stone, una piedra, ek pathar and the sun and shade of desire (in development). She received a Fiction Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts and a Fulbright grant to Mongolia. She facilitates creativity workshops and story consults as part of Faraway is Close, resonant cross-cultural encounters to Write Journey Embody the stories under the skin. Visit shebanacoelho.com

SHOP IN PEACE

Written and Directed by Jo Shui

"Shop in Peace" - A compilation of scenes exposing the pervasive racism that Asian Americans face even while doing something as routine as shopping. Duration 20 min.

Jo Shui, writer/actor is thrilled to be working with Pan Asian Rep again! Writing credits: "True Asian Hottie" (Pan Asian Rep's NuWorks Festival, Downtown Urban Theater Festival). Acting credits "Tea" (off-broadway, Pan Asian Rep), "Mouse" (Greg Pak Film), One Life to Live and All My Children (recurring U5s).

Actors: Ariel Estrada Emma Lipschutz Trevor Swann, Jen Yip

Editor/Artistic Input: Weldon Wong Powers

We Must See These Things

Created and Performed By Tyler Dobies

We Must See These Things is a conglomerate of stories made from existing in a world that doesn't see you (or sees you too much?) told through spoken word and verbatim performance.

Tyler Dobies (he/him) is an actor, singer, and poet based in NYC. He is the product of aspen trees, dirt roads, liberal arts, homeschooling, and the feeling of not being good enough. Tyler holds a BFA in Acting/Directing from Pacific Lutheran University and a MM in Vocal Performance from NYU. www.tylerdobies.com

ASIANS DATING

Written and Directed by M.J. Kang

Asians Dating is a light hearted portrayal of two recently divorced professionals who are trying to navigate love, life and cats while being Asian.

M.J. Kang is a playwright, actor, director and storyteller based in Los Angeles. She's currently in the playwrights group at Company of Angels and has been commissioned by AFO, Shotgun Players, Silicon Valley Shakespeare and is part of the writers team for the anthology film, Moving Day, produced by Cotton Bush Productions and Restorative Stories at The Barrow Group. Her improv troupe, Killer Kimchi, will be performing at Twin Cities Horror Festival. She has won three Moth story slams among many other story slams.

Actors: Eva Ding, Barron Leung

Stage Manager: M.J. Kang

Tech Editors: Katie Scibelli

Tech Engineer: Hayley Silvers

DOTS

Created and Performed by Annie Ngar-lai Cheung

Teetering dangerously between tragedy and comedy, Annie takes you into the high-achieving but insecure world of a lawyer turned actress. Duration 45 min.

Annie Cheung is a trilingual, experienced Hong Kong actress with over 40 performance credits in the last decade. Former full-time actress at Hong Kong Repertory Theatre and former artiste at Hong Kong Television Network Limited. Performed in Hong Kong, China, Macau, Los Angeles and London. Nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Mrs. Muller in Doubt by John Patrick Shanley at the Hong Kong Drama Awards in 2013. Her first solo show DOTS was staged in Camden Fringe 18, the Actors Centre in 2019 and featured as one of the programmes at SDEA Theatre Arts Conference 2021.

Une Saison en Enfer by Arthur Rimbaud – Selected poetry from “A Season in Hell”

Adapted and Directed by Shigeko Sara Suga

A love affair gone wrong - Arthur Rimbaud's agony after being shot by his lover Verlaine and to be ostracized by the whole literary society in France.

Shigeko Sara Suga is a senior artist of Pan Asian Repertory Theatre and has performed in over 140 local and international theatrical productions in the past mainly with Pan Asian Rep, Ellen Stewart's Great Jones Rep and Yara Arts Group. Her recent credits include JOHN GABRIEL BORKMAN online play reading as Mrs. Borkman, NEWS FROM FUKUSHIMA as Yu (Reporter), a feature length documentary in multiple international film festivals, and ENDLINGS as Haenyeo (Korean sea diver) at New York Theatre Workshop. http://www.shigekosuga.com

Actors: Dinh James Doan as Rimbaud, Zach Lusk as Verlain and Chorus, Shigeko Sara Suga as Chorus

Mixed genre: Poetry / Flamenco / Butoh - Duration 30 min

Performed in English with some dialogue in French, songs in Spanish