2018-2019 Season
In 2018-19, our mainstage shows included PEERLESS by Jiehae Park and GUARDS AT THE TAJ by Rajiv Joseph. This season also inaugurated our Hotpot Staged Reading series, which featured Julia Cho's THE LANGUAGE ARCHIVE, Sarah DeLappe's THE WOLVES, and Chloe Hung's MODEL MINORITY. We're proud to have curated a season that tackled challenging subjects within the Asian American community, continued our efforts to expand our repertoire beyond East Asian American plays & playwrights, and gave more opportunities for Stanford students to be a part of the AATP family.
2018-2019 Board Members: Alli Cruz, AnQi Yu, Ashi Agrawal, Betty Lee, Caroline Zha (Executive Producer), Catherine Xie, Diana Khong (Intern), Gwen Le (Intern), Hank Tian, Jihyeon Lee, Kavita Selva (Intern), Kelsey Rich, Khuyen Le, Olivia Popp (Artistic Director), Regina Kong (Intern), Starr Jiang, Vineet Gupta
2018-2019 Board Members: Alli Cruz, AnQi Yu, Ashi Agrawal, Betty Lee, Caroline Zha (Executive Producer), Catherine Xie, Diana Khong (Intern), Gwen Le (Intern), Hank Tian, Jihyeon Lee, Kavita Selva (Intern), Kelsey Rich, Khuyen Le, Olivia Popp (Artistic Director), Regina Kong (Intern), Starr Jiang, Vineet Gupta
FALL: THE LANGUAGE ARCHIVE
By Julia Cho | Hotpot Staged Reading Series
Baked bread, a reappearing train station, and a dying language collide in this tale about the fallibility of communication. This is a love story that's strange yet all too familiar...
CAST
Mary: Justine Sombilon '22 George: Vincent Nicandro Emma: Sarah Lee '22 Alta: Ysabel Ojoylan '21 Resten: Ryan Tan Stage Direction Reader: AnQi Yu '20 CREW
Producer: Starr Jiang '20 Director: Catherine Xie Stage Manager & Sound Designer: AnQi Yu '20 Dramaturg: Anna-Marie Sprenger Light & Sound Board Operator: Elena Berman Graphic Designer: Nova Meurice |
FALL: PEERLESS
By Jiehae Park | Mainstage
Asian-American twin sisters M and L will do whatever it takes to win a spot at "The College," but how far will they really go? A dark, edgy take on the ambitious and cut-throat world of the college admissions process, peerless explores the startling depth of issues surrounding cultural identity, mortality, academic institutions, and family, with no lack of sardonic wit.
CAST
M: Maia Nguyen '21 L: Binh Nguyen '22 BF: Zak Sharif '20 D/D's Brother (Reader): Hank Tian '21 Dirty Girl/Preppy Girl: Alice Grace '20 CREW
Producer: Betty Lee Assistant Producer: Minha Kim Director: Olivia Popp Assistant Director: Khuyen Le Stage Manager: Julie Lee Dramaturg: Shana Hadi Technical Director: Niza Contreras Technical Advisor: Scott Colby Sound Designer/Sound Board Op: Jacob Kupperman Costume Designer: AnQi Yu Assistant Costume Designer: Griffin Somaratne Propmaster: Clara Luu Graphic Designer: Cortland Bursey-Reece |
WINTER: THE WOLVES
By Sarah DeLappe | Hotpot Staged Reading Series
A group of high school girls on an indoor soccer team learn to define themselves and each other, encountering a world of mass destruction and raw adolescence, all within an Astro-turf dome in the middle of suburbia.
CAST
(to be updated!) CREW
Producer: Jihyeon Lee Director: Starr Jiang Stage Manager: Lily Zhou Sound Designer: Elena Berman (to be updated!) |
SPRING: MODEL MINORITY
By Chloe Hung | Hotpot Staged Reading Series
Four sheltered Chinese-American teens want to perform an original rap song for their church’s talent show but none of them know how to DJ. When an African-American student answers their flyer, they all must confront their prejudices. A play about the appropriation of African-American culture by Asian-Americans.
CAST
Anna: Ysabel Ojoylan / Sarah Lee Cynthia: Angelina Hue Jimmy: Kyle Wang Roland: Kevin Duan Derek: Julian Samuels Stage Direction Reader: Sarah Lee / Hank Tian CREW
Producer: Kathy Hu Director: Hank Tian Stage Manager: Kelsey Rich Assistant Director: Sarah Lee |
SPRING: GUARDS AT THE TAJ
By Rajiv Joseph | Mainstage
Humayun and Babur are best friends, and guards in Hindustani ruler Shah Jahan’s Imperial Army. They bicker, reminisce about jungle escapades, and have the dubious privilege of standing guard over the newly-finished Taj Mahal, Shah Jahan’s epic tribute to his dead wife, the night before the sun rises on its beauty for the first time. Humayun, sternly loyal second generation civil servant, is content to follow orders, even when the Emperor, determined that nothing more beautiful than the Taj Mahal should ever be built again, has the guards carry out an unthinkable task. But sensitive Babur, an imaginative inventor, can only come to terms with the destruction of beauty if he exacts his own powerful vengeance. In the aftermath, both men are forced to question the concepts of beauty and power, duty and resistance, and friendship and love, as their relationship is tested and irrevocably changed by the choices they made on that one fateful night.
CAST
Humayun: Vineet Gupta Babur: Bobby Pragada CREW
Producer: Caroline Zha Assistant Producer: Rosemond Ho Director: AnQi Yu Assistant Director: Diana Khong Stage Manager: Gwen Le Assistant Stage Manager: Becky Liang Dramaturg: Ashi Agrawal Technical Director: Niza Contreras Assistant Technical Directors: Ben Wu, Julie Lee Set Designer: Starr Jiang Scenic Painters: Charlie Dubach-Reinhold, Sharon Du, Amanda Powell, Justine Sombilon Lighting Designer: Amita Gondi Sound Designer: Jupinder Parmar, AnQi Yu Costume Designer: Kavita Selva Assistant Costume Designer: Clara Luu Fight Choreographer / Movement Coach: Ricky Huang Graphic Designer: Nibha Akireddy |