I AM IN A SHOW!!! And I play the title character (for the first time, I believe… except for this one time I played Winnie the Pooh). I AM the Orphan of Zhao.
The Orphan of Zhao is playing at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, June 4th~29th, 2014.
The tickets are on sale at the ACT homepage www.act-sf.org. (you can use discount code LEGEND) Or get half priced tickets on Goldstar. If you’re in the bay area, PLEASE COME SEE IT!
It’s a beautiful show. I get to fight with a quarterstaff, do a 7 minute monologue, be the revenge hero, everything I’ve always wanted to do onstage. And I won’t let you down. You know it.
The cast is amazing. Did I mention it is starring BD Wong?!! He’s a Tony Award Winner and on TV all the time??!
I didn’t know anybody coming into the project, so I am so grateful to meet and work with these talented group of actors.
A funny story: We rehearse at the ACT rehearsal building on 30 Grant Ave. The only other time I had been in the building was when I auditioned for UCLA back in my community college days. For the contemporary monologue of the audition, I chose from the play Yankee Dawg, You Die by Philip Kan Gotanda. That play really spoke to me in those days because it was about being an Asian actor in America (So, yeah, naturally). Well… I soon learned during our rehearsal process that I was, in fact, working with the original cast of Yankee Daw, You Die, Stan Egi and Sab Shimono in The Orphan of Zhao!!! Now, that’s what I call serendipity.
Also, another side note: Our costume designer, Linda Cho, just won a Tony Award for her work in A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder. YEAH!!!
I am truly blessed to be in this show, so get your tickets NOW!
If you miss it in the Bay Area, the show is a coproduction with La Jolla Playhouse, so it moves down there for a run, July 8~August 3, 2014. For all the So-Cal people, I’ll keep you posted next month.
