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"Kingdom exemplifies the power of the arts to inspire a deeper understanding of the forces that have driven so many young people to join gangs, use drugs and engage in senseless violence against one another." -Victoria L. Hamilton, Executive Director, Commission for Arts and Culture, City of San Diego
Author Archives: aaron
Nicaragua
I spent a week in León, Nicaragua when I was 15, 16, and 17. That revolutionary city blew my mind. This February I went back, and began a theatre collaboration with the New Haven / León Sister City Project, Bregamos Community Theater, and the Yale Council of Latin American/Iberian Studies. We’re doing Theatre of the [...]
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Elevator Institutionalized
STUCK ELEVATOR (music by Byron Au Yong, libretto by me) played two sold-out workshop performances at the 2010 International Festival of Arts & Ideas after being selected for a two-week workshop by the Yale Institute for Music Theater. Director Chay Yew took the “work” part of “workshop” rather seriously. Byron and I were stuck in [...]
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Aaron-in-Residency
This spring, Aaron is in residency all over the place. Here’s what and where: Stories of a New America: Refugees at Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services (IRIS) create a play in collaboration with Collective Consciousness Theatre. Theatre for English Language Learners: Global Enterprise Academy, Bronx. Poetry and Theatre: Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital Child Life Arts [...]
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2009 in review
Aaron and composer Byron Au Yong are 2009-2010 Artists-in-Residence at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU to develop STUCK ELEVATOR – including readings at the Museum of Chinese in America (September) and Pearl Studios (November). Oregon Shakespeare Festival mixes Shakespeare with hip hop theatre artists Rokafella, Rickerby Hinds, the Q brothers, Joe Hernandez-Kolski, Audra Polk, Christopher [...]
2008 in review
THE HOSPITAL CHRONICLES, an original play created and performed by high school students at the Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven, CT, culminates a semester-long collaboration between ECA students and teens living with chronic illness at Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital, facilitated by Aaron and video artist Laki Vazakas. KINGDOM receives 7 staged readings [...]
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Refuge(es)