L-R: Keiko Shimosato Carreiro* & Chuck Lacson singing "The Googoo Song."
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In February 2020, we made music at the San Francisco Mime Troupe and tried out our new songs with a live audience. In March 2020, we began to shelter-in-place. Then in June 2020, we decided the show must go on...digitally! In Fall 2020, we devised and experimented our way to a virtual vaudeville now in development to be streamed free-to-the public. In 2021 we postponed our production and surveyed our audiences to see how they would like to return to the theater. A significant portion of our stakeholders would like to return to in-person performance; an equally significant number are unsure and feel safer online. In 2022 we decided to turn The Truer History into a film so audiences could see it safely on their devices or at community watch parties. In 2023 we shot the movie. In 2025 we debut at ArtsEmerson, Boston! Voila! Stay tuned for free-to-the-public online access and community watch parties! Yeehaa! |
Alan Yip amazes on the erhu.
(L-R: Keiko Shimosato Carreiro*, Nicole Apostol Bruno*, Erin Mei-Ling Stuart. Seated: Will Dao*, Shauna Satnick)
Big Mama, a Working Girl and Eugenie celebrate finding a clean, well-lighted place for Eugenie to write her Pulitzer Prize-winning play.
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(L-R: Alan Yip, Erin Mei-Ling Stuart, Rob Dario)
Eugenie (the character in the vaudeville) yearns to be a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright.
(L-R: Ogie Zulueta*, Rob Dario, Will Dao*)
The men, including Big Daddy, his son Gumdock Chan (the and a blood brother, tell it like it is about duty and honor in the Hip Yee Tong.
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A week in July 2018:
Working on Chan Family Picnic in a sublime studio courtesy of Arts Montalvo and composer Byron Au Yong. I'm trying to be a nutty vaudevillian, without the nutty vaudevillians. It's very difficult -- gimme the nuts now! |
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New Play Reading19 Wentworth Alley, ChinatownDecember 14, 2015. 7 pmZ Below, San FranciscoDrawing on the history of her grandfather, a man caught between his studies as a Stanford medical student and his membership in a Chinatown gambling and prostitution guild in early 1900s San Francisco, Eugenie Chan layers original material with fragments of actual family documents to explore the world Chan’s Grandfather knew — and made — one of high hopes and hard choices.
Why I Wrote this Play: Most of what we know about the Chinese in America — which is very little — examines our history as typologies of railroad workers, laundry men, or high tech wunderkind. We are either laborers, crooks, or flawless geniuses. But we never get to look at the people like my grandfather who were betwixt & between, the people beyond the typology. Gumdock Chan carried the unusual burden of both privileged and constricted circumstance. A Stanford grad and the son of a madam at a time when Chinese were intensely discriminated against, how did he make his way in the world? How did he reconcile his family’s past, his future? |
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