Celine Song and Julia Cho on Asian American Storytelling

East West Players
120 Judge John Aiso St, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Parking is available across the street from the David Henry Hwang Theatre at the Judge John Aiso Underground Parking Garage, located at 101 N Judge John Aiso Street. $3 flat rate after 5pm.

Space is limited; RSVP recommended
This event is free; $10 suggested donation to GYOPO

GYOPO is delighted to invite you to a lively conversation with playwright and screenwriter, Celine Song, and actor-producer, Julia Cho. Together, they will discuss storytelling in theater, television, and film, including topics on representation, race, ethnicity, diasporic experiences, building intergenerational communities, and divesting from whiteness and patriarchy. Julia Cho will also read from Celine Song’s acclaimed play about aging haenyeo (Korean women sea divers) Endlings, which premiered at the American Repertory Theater in February 2019.

About Endlings:

On the Korean island of Man-Jae, three elderly haenyeos spend their dying days diving into the ocean to harvest seafood. They have no heirs to their millennia-old way of life. Across the globe on the island of Manhattan, a Korean-Canadian playwright, twice an immigrant, spends her days wrestling with the expectation that she write “authentic” stories about her identity. But what, exactly, is her identity? And how can she write about it without selling her own skin?

Header image: Emily Kuroda and Wai Ching Ho in Celine Song’s play Endlings, 2019, the American Repertory Theater, MA (photography by GretjenHelene.com)

Images

All documentation by Sara Pooley.

Please contact info@gyopo.us for video documentation of the talk.