Meet and Greet with The Chinese Lady Director and Cast

Meet and Greet with the Director and Cast of The Chinese Lady

Friday, March 6, 2020
11:30 am – 1:00 pm
442 Temple Street
Light snacks
 
The Chinese Lady
By Lloyd Suh
Long Wharf Theatre
March 18 – April 12
longwharf.org
 
Inspired by the true story of America’s first female Chinese “immigrant”
 
Meet Afong Moy, a 14-year-old girl who traveled the United States, first with the Carne Brothers and then with P.T. Barnum. Her “performance?” Educate others about life in her native China. To Afong, she is an ambassador; to her owners, a sideshow. As these dual truths become irreconcilable, Afong must reckon with herself and the history of her new home with startling discoveries in Lloyd Suh’s deeply poetic and subversively comedic tale.
 

Ralph B. Peña (Director) Recent Off-Broadway: The Chinese LadyAmong The DeadHouse/Rules, and Wong Kids in The Secret of the Space Chupacabra, Go! Ralph has been Ma-Yi Theater’s Artistic Director since 1996, and has been instrumental in establishing Ma-Yi Theater Company as the country’s leading incubator of new works by Asian American playwrights, reaping numerous Obie and Drama Desk Awards, a Lucille Lortel Award for Best Musical (KPOP), and most recently, the 2018 Ross Wetzsteon Obie Award. Apart from Ma-Yi Theater, his work has been seen on the stages of Ensemble Studio Theater, the Public Theater, Long Wharf Theater, Victory Gardens, Laguna Playhouse, Children’s Theater Company, and La Mama ETC, to name a few. This is for Damien, always and forever.

Shannon Tyo (Afong Moy) (she/her) Long Wharf Theatre debut. Off-Broadway: The Chinese Lady, Kentucky, Bikeman, Dear Edwina. Select regional: The Good Book (Berkeley Rep), Fun Home (Baltimore Center Stage), Smart People (Geva Theatre Center), Bright Half Life (Kitchen Theatre Co.), Broadway Bounty Hunter (Barrington Stage), The White Snake (The Old Globe), Miss Saigon (Pioneer Theatre Co., Cape Fear Regional Theatre, Music Theatre Wichita), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Northern Stage, Tuacahn Center, Pioneer Theatre Co.). TV: “30 Rock,” “Rediscovering Christmas” (Lifetime), “The Last O.G.” BFA, Syracuse University.

Jon Norman Schneider (Atung) (he/him) is thrilled to be back at Long Wharf Theatre after last appearing in Julia Cho’s Durango in 2006. Earlier this year, he played the Fool in Northern Stage’s production of King Lear. Select New York credits include the title role in Henry VI (NAATCO), Awake and Sing! (NAATCO/The Public), Lunch Bunch (Clubbed Thumb), The Oldest Boy (Lincoln Center), Queens Boulevard (the musical) (Signature), Durango (The Public), A Map of Virtue (13P), among others. London: Paper Dolls (Tricycle). Regional: Actors Theatre of Louisville, Alley Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Barrington Stage Co., Dorset Theatre Festival, Goodman Theatre, Huntington Theatre Co., Kennedy Center, Magic Theatre, Milwaukee Rep, Mosaic Theatre Co. of DC, and The Old Globe. Film: Bitter Melon, Manila Is Full of Men Named Boy, The Normals, and HBO’s Angel Rodriguez. TV: “Succession,” 
“Jessica Jones,” “Veep,” “30 Rock,” and “Law & Order: Criminal Intent.”

Event time: 
Friday, March 6, 2020 - 11:30am to 1:00pm
Location: 
Yale-China Association See map
442 Temple Street
New Haven, CT 06511

Admission: 
Free but register in advance