USC Global Conference, Hong Kong, October 13-15, 2011, presenting on a panel, "The Power of Arts in Cultivating Cultural Landscapes."
Bliss at Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles, as part of exhibit, "Posing Beauty in African American Culture," Directed by Jon Lawrence Rivera.
Calligraphy in Chicago at Silk Road Theatre Project, August 25-29, 2011, Directed by Lisa Portes.
International Federation of Theatre Research Conference, Osaka, Japan, August 7-12, 2011, presenting Made in Japan in collaboration with presentations by Professor Mariko Hori Tanaka and Professor Eriko Hara.
Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, June 11, 2011, to receive the Loving Award.
National Asian American Theatre Conference & Festival, Los Angeles, Keynote Panel, June
Kokoro (True Heart), Directed by Tamara Ruppart, The Barber Theatre, Cunningham Theatre Center, Davidson College.
The DNA Trail: A Genealogy of Short Plays about Ancestry, Identity, and Utter Confusion, Directed by Steven Scott, A Concert Reading at Bovard Auditorium, Produced by Silk Road Theatre Project in conjunction with Visions and Voices Arts & Humanities Initiative, University of Southern California.
Guest Artist, Center for Japanese Studies, University of California at Berkeley, Japanese hybridity symposium
Bliss (formerly The Life and Times of the Tragic Mulatto), Performance Reading as part of the exhibition "Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present," based on Deborah Willis' book of the same title, Directed by Jon Lawrence Rivera, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California.
2010
Calligraphy World Premiere at LATC produced by Playwrights' Arena and Latino Theatre Company. Director, Jon Lawrence Rivera. Dramaturge, Luis Alfaro. Assistant Director, Alison De La Cruz. Stage Manager, Jaclyn Kalkhurst. Scenic Design, Ann Sheffield. Lighting Design, Debra Lockwood. Sound Design, Robert Blackburn. Costume Design, Drew Bird. Original Music, Nathan Wang. Cast: Melody Butiu, Kevin Daniels, Fran De Leon, Emily Kuroda, Jeanne Sakata. November 12-December 12, 2010.
Hula Heart, Hudson Guild Theatre, New York.
Guest Artist at Bellarmine Forum, Women in Theatre panel with Beth Henley, Amy Madigan, and Ellen Geer, Loyola Marymount University
Guest Speaker, Directors Lab West at Los Angeles Theatre Center
Guest Artist, LATC Youth Summer Conservatory
Performance Staged Reading, The Life and Times of the 'Tragic Mulatto', Directed by Luis Alfaro, Produced by Project Remix, Asian Pacific American Student Services, El Centro Chicano, Center for Black Cultural and Student Affairs, USC Student Affairs
Production, Playwrights' Arena (Artistic Director, Jon Lawrence Rivera) in association with Latino Theatre Company (Artistic Director, Jose Luis Valenzuela) at LATC (Los Angeles Theatre Center), Calligraphy,
World Premiere, November 2010, directed by Jon Lawrence Rivera; Dramaturg, Luis
Alfaro
Production, Silk Road Theatre Project in association with the
Goodman Theatre, The DNA Trail, March
2010
Staged Reading, Civilization,
Green Beetle Reading Series, Hollywood, March 2010
Guest Speaker, Parkside International Residential College, University of Southern California, March 23, 2010
Guest Speaker, Culture of Peace Distinguished Lecture Series,
Soka Gakkai International-USA, March 13, 2010
Guest Speaker/Panelist, US-Japan Conference on Cultural and
Educational Interchange international conference, Tokyo, Japan
Guest Speaker, Artists' Roundtable, LATC Playwrights' Festival,
January 2010
2009
Guest Speaker/Panelist, US-Japan Conference on Cultural and
Educational Interchange international conference, Tokyo, Japan
Research Advisor, Studies
on Modernization of Classic Greek Theatre and Myth in Contemporary British,
Irish, and American Poetic Drama and Theatre, funded by a Grant-in Aid for
Scientific Research, Curator: Mariko Hori Tanaka, Aoyama Gakuin
University, Tokyo, Japan
Guest Artist/Presenter, Keiro Senior Healthcare annual benefit
dinner, Los Angeles
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