East Side Story
Each week, Cheeyang sits down with an Asian or Asian-American artist working in the New York Theatre scene and excavates their life story — how they grew up, how they got their start in theatre, as well as projects they've worked on and upcoming work that we should anticipate.
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7: Arpita Mukherjee // Decolonization
Artistic Director of Hypokrit Theatre Company, an O'Neill and Lincoln Center Directing Fellow, Women's Project Lab (Director), Arpita's resume is endless.
6: Eddy Lee // Being Hamilton (Part 2)
In just a month, we've surpassed 1000 downloads of our podcast. Thank you for supporting this endeavor! Back to regularly scheduled programming, Part 2 uncovers Eddy's experience being Asian, my philosophy of conversation vs. confrontation, his time at Hamilton and more.
5: Eddy Lee // Being Hamilton (Part 1)
Making his Broadway debut through auditions in open calls without an agent, Eddy Lee is the success story everyone should know. Since the interview is a little longer than usual, I have split up the episode in two.
Bonus 2: Meetu Chilana & Sorab Wadia // Be Human
We're up in Salem, CT doing a workshop of my new musical, The Golden Threshold. Since episodes are being delayed, here's another bonus episode with some of the cast, Meetu Chilana and Sorab Wadia. Full transcript will be available soon.
Bonus 1: Kimberly Chatterjee, Jamen Nanthakumar & Kuhoo Verma // Not Cultural Consultants
We're up in Salem, CT doing a workshop of my new musical, The Golden Threshold. And since episodes are being delayed, here's a bonus episode with not one, but three cast members of the musical.
4: Cynthia Meng // From Moulin Rouge to Hadestown
"Don't ever forget, you will be thought of as an other." - Cynthia Meng. Within a year of freelancing, Cynthia has worked in rooms for musicals in-development on Broadway, Off-Broadway and out-of-town tryouts. What is her secret?
3: David Park // The Dichotomy of being Korean-American
"When I'm speaking to my mom, I literally don't have the vocabulary to express the depth of my emotion to her." - David Park. Having not been back to Korea in over 17 years, David has always identified as American.
1: Kuhoo Verma // Racial Awakening
"It was a huge transition going from hating myself and hating my Indianness and finding out that in the process of white-washing myself, I was erasing my parents' existence in my life." - Kuhoo Verma.
2: Desdemona Chiang // Mortality and Your Mother
"Am I entering a field that doesn't have me in its legacy?" - Desdemona Chiang. Being an only-child shaped the lives of both Cheeyang and Desdemona. They connected over their shared over-achieving nature, big identity questions as theater artists, and their different views on mortality.
0: Trailer // East Side Story
Highlights from the first 3 episodes of the season. Each week, Cheeyang sits down with an Asian or Asian-American artist working in the New York Theatre scene and excavates their life story — how they grew up, as well as projects they've worked on and upcoming work that we should anticipate.
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