Join us for this FREE special event co-presented by Antaeus Theatre Company & the Monterey Park Bruggemeyer Library, as part of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. On May 29 at 6:00 pm, we'll be hosting a live panel discussion (over Zoom) with guest artists from 91754: Monterey Park - “BINGO BITCHES” and local representatives.
We will begin with a shared listening of the audio play, followed by a discussion with Playwright Elizabeth Wong, Director Jennifer Chang, the cast of "BINGO BITCHES" (Cici Lau, Karen Huie, and Jade Hykush), Artistic Director Bill Brochtrup, and Monterey Park Senior Librarian, Deborah Niblick. Together, we'll delve into the creative process behind the play, as we learn more about the local landscape and communities of Monterey Park.
Watch a recording of the event here! If you've already listened to the audio play, start watching the panel discussion here.
Jennifer Chang is a director, actor, and educator. Select Directing credits include:
Where the Mountain Meets the Moonby Min Kahng (South Coast Rep),
Hannah and the Dread Gazebo by Jiehae Park (Fountain Theatre),
Vietgone by Qui Nguyen (LADCC Award). Select new play development: Ashland New Plays Festival, Center Theatre Group, Boston Court, Geffen Playhouse, Chance Theatre, Echo Theatre Company, Circle X Theatre Company, Chalk Rep, and East West Players. Other: 2020 APAFT Award, Alumnus Directors Lab West, Drama League NY Fellowship. Head of Undergraduate Acting at UCSD. Member: SDC, SAG-AFTRA, AEA. BFA: NYU, MFA: UCSD. More info:
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Theater: Little Women (Playwrights Arena); Washer and Dryer, Steel Magnolias, A Little Night Music, The Joy Luck Club (East West Players); Red Flamboyant (Firebone Theatre). TV/Film: This Country, Mom, Hollywood, Kidding, Baskets, This Is Us, Shameless, Why Women Kill, Animal Kingdom, Hawaii 5-0. Video Game: Ghost of Tsushima (Yuriko); Yakuza: Like a Dragon; Sekiro. Voiceover: Abominables, Onward, Incredibles 2, Boss Baby, Moana, Star Wars (last 5 films). Recurring: Great Pretender, Scissor Seven, Bystanders. HB Studio, The New School for Social Research, La Mama, ETC, and Member of the Antaeus Playwrights Lab.
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Theater: Constantinople (Secret Rose Theatre); Saroyan, The Unpublished Plays (Mark Taper Auditorium); Happy Armenians (NoHo Arts Center); Girls Together Always (Actors Company); Front street, Jews Without Money, The Sicilian Bachelor (The Renegade); Blood Wedding, Fog of War (The Ventura Court Theatre); Little Armenia (The Fountain Theatre); Tango Woman (Comedy Store). TV/Film: Claws, Teachers, E-Ring, Lois and Clark, The Trials of Rosie O'Neill, Chasing Tchaikovsky, The Ferguson's, Late for Dinner, The 13th Floor, Chaplin.
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Theater: Mama from China (Secret Rose Theatre); Gumsimao (Playwrights' Arena); Joy Luck Club (East West Players). TV/Film: Paper Tiger, Shameless, Los Lobos (The Wolves), Better Things, Arrested Development, S.W.A.T., Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television, The Jade Pendant, Grey's Anatomy, Brooklyn-Nine-Nine, Fear the Walking Dead, Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders, Mike & Molly, Whitney, Torchwood, HOP, Burning Palms, Johnny Raikou, The Comedian, Love Arcadia, Mantervention, Breaking In, Sons of Anarchy, Love, Ping Pong Playa, Adventures of Johnny Tao, American Fusion, Robbery Homicide, The Tick, The League, Legally Blonde, and ER. Last year Cici was in pre-production as an executive producer in a feature, Her Missing Twin. She is also a supporting actor, and the filming is scheduled to be wrapped in March 2021. https://imdb.to/2rv85iD
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Elizabeth Wong’s plays include Tam Tran Goes To Washington, Kimchee & Chitlins, Letters to a Student Revolutionary, and China Doll. Her work has been produced at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Victory Gardens Theater, Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, and East West Players. Honors include the Tanne Foundation Award for Artistic Achievement, and the Kennedy Center’s David Mark Cohen National Playwriting Award. An alumna of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Ms. Wong was also a Disney Writing Fellow, Los Angeles Times Op-Ed columnist, and writer for the ABC sitcom All-American Girl starring Margaret Cho. She’s a member of PEN, Dramatist Guild, and Writers Guild West. Currently, she teaches at Boston Conservatory@Berklee.
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*member, Actor’s Equity Association, the union of professional Actors and Stage Managers in the U.S. This production is presented under the auspices of the Actors’ Equity Los Angeles Membership Company Rule
