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Productions
Futura (2010)
by Jordan Harrison
A Play on War (2010)
by Jenny Connell and Rubén Polendo
The Seagull (2009)
by Anton Chekhov
Leah's Train (2009)
by Karen Hartman
Out Cry (2008)
by Tennessee Williams
Blind Mouth Singing (2007)
by Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas
Falsettoland (2007)
by William Finn
The House of Bernarda Alba (2007)
by Frederico Garcia Lorca
The Dispute (2006)
by Pierre Marivaux
Cowboy v. Samurai (2005)
by Michael Golamco
Ivanov (2005)
by Anton Chekhov
Eyes of the Heart (2004)
by Catherine Filloux
Antigone (2004)
by Sophocles
Tales of Unrest (2003)
Two one-acts by
by Joseph Conrad
Air Raid (2003)
by Archibald MacLeish
Fuenteovejuna (2002)
by Lope de Vega
The House of Bernarda Alba (2000)
by Frederico Garcia Lorca
Harmfulness of Tobacco (2000)
by Anton Chekov
A Phoenix Too Frequent (2000)
by Christopher Fry
Othello (2000)
by William Shakespeare
He Who Says Yes (1999)
by Kurt Weill and Bertold Brecht
Falsettoland (1998)
by William Finn
You Can't Take It With You (1998)
by George S. Kaufmann and Moss Hart
Long Day's Journey Into Night (1997)
by Eugene O'Neill
Ah, Wilderness (1997)
by Eugene O'Neill
The Gaol Gate /
Purgatory
How He Lied to Her Husband /
Village Wooing (1996)
by George Bernard Shaw
School for Wives (1995)
by Moliere
Love Labour's Won (1995)
An Original Revue by William Shakespeare
assisted by Leonard Bernstein, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart
Our Town (1994)
by Thornton Wilder
The American Dream (1994)
by Edward Albee
The Cherry Orchard (1993)
by Anton Chekhov
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1992)
by William Shakespeare
The Stronger (1991)
by August Strindberg
3 by Chekhov (1990)
The Harmful Effects of Tobacco
Swan Song
A Marriage Proposal
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The National Asian-American Theatre Company
presents

June 14 - July 1, 2007
Tuesday - Sundays @ 7:00 PM
Saturdays and Sundays @ 3:00 PM
The Dimson Theatre
108 East 15 Street
New York NY
Tickets: $20
Ticket Central
(212) 279-4200
(clockwise from left: Christine Toy Johnson, Jason Ma, Francis Jue,
MaryAnn Hu, Ben Wu, Manu Narayan and Ann Sanders)
Falsettoland is about taking care of each other in troubling times, and NAATCO's
revival ups the ante by reminding us that "each other" really means everybody: seven
actors of Asian descent play seven neurotic urban Jews without comment and it's neither
jarring nor politically pointed.
Martin Denton - NYTheatre.com
The cast rises to the occasion, and then some. Like Sarah Lambert's efficient set,
which clicks into place with the simplicity and precision of Jason's Rubik's Cube, this
group of performers is a colorful, interlocking, and delightful puzzle.
Amy Krivohlavek - OffOffOnline.com
Because the characters are drawn so specifically, NAATCO's cross-racial casting is able
to add layers of new connotations to the piece without eroding the integrity of the story.
No matter what the actors look like, Falsettoland rings true.
Adam Feldman - TimeOut New York
By refusing to alter the material to justify its casting - say, setting Shakespeare among the samurai,
as Akira Kurosawa did with his films Ran and Throne of Blood - NAATCO upholds a beautifully expansive
view of the theater, where any play that's good can be considered an Asian play.
Nina Shen Rastogi - Nextbook
While the show takes place in the 80's, the emotional impact of losing a loved one
to AIDS is timeless. NAATCO scores a homerun with this winning revival of Falsettoland.
Lia Chang - AsianConnections.com
Falsettoland is a slice of tragic history that continues to pack an enormously effective one-two punch.
Andy Propst - American Theatre Web
Using an Asian American cast in a Jewish-centric, gay-themed musical seems like a risky
venture, but NAATCO proves that colorblind casting can be an effective means of execution.
Nicholas Luckenbaugh - Show Business Weekly
AMAZIN' ASIAN STAGIN'
BARBARA HOFFMAN - NY Post
Ben Wu, Francis Jue (photo by Bruce Johnson)
Jason Ma, Manu Narayan (photo by Bruce Johnson)
The company (photo by Bruce Johnson)
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DANA CORRAL (ASM, female understudy) Favorite credits
NJ: The Miracle Worker (Helen), The Diary of Anne
Frank (Anne), Les Miserables (Eponine), Ragtime (Evelyn
Nesbit), The Children’s Hour (Helen Bunton) . NY: Metamorphoses (Midas’ Daughter
and Others). Film/TV: Connie Chung Stunt Double (NBC), Music
and Lyrics By, American Standard, Radio 4 (Music Video). Dana
has also performed at The White House, The UN, and has posed
for New York Magazine and Dakota Lane’s graphic novel, Gothic
Lolita. She has studied at the AADA and is currently pursuing
her BFA at NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
www.danamae.com
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RON GLOW (Costume Design) has designed the costumes for ReImagined
World Entertainment's short film All American Eyes , The
Baker's Wife at the Mint Theatre
and Yesterday Once More at the Triad. He is
a wardrobe supervisor at MAMMA MIA! on Broadway
and has been a supervisor on the Broadway productions of Annie
Get Your Gun, Paul Simon's The Capeman and Sunset
Boulevard
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MARYANN HU (Cordelia)
TV: Played SooLin on the NBC sitcom WHOOPI;
Law & Order . Film: Falling
For Grace . Has appeared in both the Broadway Company and
the National Tour of Miss Saigon . Off Broadway/Regional
credits: The
Audience (The Transport Group) , The Beautiful
Warrior (The
Vineyard Theatre) , Babes in Toyland (Lincoln
Center), Tuptim in The
King and I , Into The Woods , Song
of Singapore , Sweeney Todd and Heading
East . Workshops include: Please
Don’t Eat The Daisies,
The Wedding Singer , Get Shorty and Desperately
Seeking Susan! (featuring the music of Blondie) . Concert appearances include CHESS with
Josh Groban; FUNNY GIRL with Whoopi Goldberg and was recently
featured as Agnes in On the 20th Century with Marin Mazzie.
Vocalist on the Sondheim compilation album East West Overtures and
the 2005 grammy nominated recording of HAIR (Sh-k-Boom/Ghostlight
Records). Married to NY bassist, Dave Phillips. Dedicates all performances
in memory of her dad, who inspires much of who she is today, on stage
and off.
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BRUCE JOHNSON (Production Stage Manager) has had an extremely diverse career
in the entertainment industry. He recently collaborated as a stage
manager and lighting designer with director Alan Muraoka on the Opening
Doors concerts
for Asian Americans on Broadway. He also appeared opposite Elaine
Paige on Broadway in Sunset Blvd . In 1999 he founded Bruce
Johnson Photography and Graphic Design , specializing in
creating unique press materials (both internet and paper) for high-profile
(Oscar nominated and Tony and Grammy Award winning) performing
artists. With a degree in film production from the University of
Iowa, his love of cinematography led him to create award-winning
photography and back again to directing the audience award-winning
short film All
American Eyes written by and starring his wife Christine
Toy Johnson. After Falsettoland, he is collaborating
with Christine again to make a documentary about the first Asian
American professional basketball player, Wat Misaka. More about
his work can be found at
www.brucealanjohnson.com.
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CHRISTINE TOY JOHNSON (Dr. Charlotte) is thrilled
to reprise her role from NAATCO’S critically
acclaimed 1998 production of FALSETTOLAND. She has extensive performing
credits on Broadway, Off-Broadway, national tour, film and television.
Highlights of over twenty years of work include featured roles in
the New York revivals of THE MUSIC MAN, MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG, and
PACIFIC OVERTURES, the national tours of CATS, FLOWER DRUM SONG and
BOMBAY DREAMS, and leading roles at some of the most well-respected
theatres across the country including the New York Shakespeare Festival,
the Williamstown Theatre Festival, the Huntington Theatre and The
Denver Center Theatre Company. Film and television credits include “Lisa
West” on ONE LIFE TO LIVE , CROSSING JORDAN, BLIND JUSTICE,
GROUNDED FOR LIFE, NUNSENSE and NUNSENSE 2 (PBS and A&E), LAW
AND ORDERS: SVU and CRIMINAL INTENT, OZ, CONSPIRACY THEORY, JUNGLE
2 JUNGLE, L.I.E and ALL AMERICAN EYES which she also wrote and produced.
An award-winning writer, Christine’s play THE NEW DEAL was
recently developed at the Roundabout Theatre Company. For more, please
visit
www.christinetoyjohnson.com
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FRANCIS JUE (Mendel) On
Broadway, Francis originated the role of Bun Foo in Thoroughly Modern
Millie , and appeared in Steven Sondheim and John Weidman’s Pacific
Overtures and David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly . He
has won awards for Red, Into the Woods, Cabaret, Pacific
Overtures, and Kiss of the Spiderwoman . Some of his
other favorite theatre credits include The King & I, A Language
of Their Own , Amadeus, A Midsummer Night’s Dream ,
and No Foreigners Beyond This Point . Francis has also
appeared as Dr. Fong on Law & Order: SVU and Dr. Yamagachi
on One Life to Live.
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SARAH LAMBERT (Set Designer) Previous designs with NAATCO: the
original productions of Falsettoland and The House of Bernarda
Alba, as well as Cowboy v Samurai, Ivanov, Tales of Unrest, Air
Raid, Fuenteovejuna, Othello, A Phoenix Too Frequent, Long Day’s Journey into Night, Ah
Wilderness!, The School for Wives, and The Cherry Orchard. Other
designs include: Gross Indecency (NY, London, Toronto, San Francisco
and LA), The People’s Temple (The Guthrie, Berkeley Rep and
Perseverance), Spectators at an Event (BAM), Savage Acts and Last
of the Suns (Ma-Yi), as well as the usual assortment of regional,
college and downtown projects. She is an Artistic Associate with
Theater of Necessity (Playing Alexina, Mephisto and Stunt Man).
As a dramaturg, she has worked most notably on The Laramie Project
(NYC, Denver, and HBO). She has a BA from Cornell and a MFA from
Yale. Current projects include Fly (Lincoln Center Institute) and
Casa Cushman (working title) a new piece in development with Tectonic
Theatre Project and About Face.
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JASON MA (Marvin) Broadway: Sly
Fox w/ Richard Dreyfuss, Miss Saigon , Shogun, Prince
of Central Park, Chu Chem . Off-Broadway: Hamlet (CSC), Antony & Cleopatra w/
Vanessa Redgrave (NYSF/Public Theater), The Merchant of Venice (Pearl
Theatre), Falsettoland ( Natl. Asian Actors’ Theatre
Co.), Wilderness (Pan Asian Rep). Regional: Hamlet w/
Campbell Scott (Huntington), Twelfth Night (People’s
Light Theatre), Pacific Overtures (Alliance, Cincinnati Playhouse), M.
Butterfly (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis), Twelve Angry Men (Tennessee
Rep), Bruinhaha (Kennedy Ctr.), Jam & Spice (Westport
Playhouse). International: Peter Sellars’ Peony
Pavilion (Barbican Ctr., Vienna Fest., Roma Europa Fest.), Cambodia
Agonistes (Cairo Fest., Johannesburg Market Square Theatre). Television: An
American Novel, PBS; Bull , TNN; Labor Pains, Lifetime; Honor
and Glory, Showtime; The Promised Land, A&E. BA:
(UCLA), M.F.A (Shakespeare Theatre Academy at George Washington University).
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ALAN MURAOKA (Director) is proud to be
reviving this production of "Falsettoland," which received critical acclaim
and a sold-out run here at the Vineyard Theatre in 1998. He
directed the Tony-nominated actor John Tartaglia("Avenue
Q") in his one-man show, "John Tartaglia AD-LIBerty," which
ran at Joe's Pub at the Public Theatre, and won numerous cabaret
awards. Other New York directing credits include the world premiere
of “Karaoke Stories,” (IMUA Theater Company), "The
Leading Men" and "The Leading Men 2", (BC/EFA), "Empty
Handed"(Musicals Tonight), and cabarets for Tony-nominated
actress Stephanie D'Abruzzo and Ann Harada. He has also directed
for the Public Theater, the Village Theater in Seattle, and a
three city Taiwanese tour of a rock musical called, “Making
Tracks” for Second Generation. He has spent the last year
introducing Broadway's Asian American talent through his new
company, "Asian Americans on Broadway," which is a
joint venture with Christine Toy Johnson and Bruce Johnson. They
have performed successful concerts in San Francisco and Houston,
and will be returning to San Francisco and Los Angeles in September
2007. In August, he will direct Disney's "High School Musical" at
the Lyric Theatre in Oklahoma City. Mr. Muraoka is a member
of the Lincoln Center Director’s Lab. As an actor, Mr.
Muraoka is most recognizable for his role in the Emmy Award winning
series, “Sesame Street,” where he plays “Alan,” the
proprietor of Hooper’s Store. He has appeared in
six Broadway shows; the recent revival of "Pacific Overtures," “Mail,” “Shogun,
the Musical,” “My Favorite Year,” “The
King and I”(with Lou Diamond Phillips and Donna Murphy),
and most notably “Miss Saigon,” where he played the
lead role of the Engineer. Mr. Muraoka is a graduate of UCLA,
where he received the Carol Burnett Musical Comedy Award for
performance. He was also the 2004 recipient of the APEX Inspiration
Award and the FCC's 2007 Role Model of the Year Award. Please
feel free to visit his web site at: www.alanmuraoka.net and
the Asian Americans on Broadway website at: www.AsianAmericansOnBroadway.com
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MANU NARAYAN (Whizzer) Broadway: Bombay
Dreams (Drama League nom.). OFF-BROADWAY: subUrbia
(revival), Second Stage Theater; Getting Home (world premiere), Second
Stage Theater; Sidd: the Musical (world premiere), Dodger Stages; Suzan-Lori
Parks’ Fucking A (world premiere), NYSF/ Public Theater; Bintou,
The Play Company; I am Mou, Circle East; Josephine’s Song, The
York Theater. NATIONAL TOUR: Miss Saigon, 2cnd National Tour, Cameron
Mackintosh Inc. REGIONAL THEATER: The People Next Door (Am. Premiere),
Yale Rep.; The Boys from Syracuse, Baltimore Center Stage; Tom Stoppard’s
Indian Ink, Wilma Theater; Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses, St.
Louis/Cincinnati; Romeo and Juliet Swine Palace/Shakespeare and Company;
Largo at New York Stage and Film; A Winter’s Tale, Missouri
Rep; A Christmas Carol , Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Fame,
Mame, and Godspell at Pittsburgh CLO, Atlanta’s TUTS, Houston
TUTS, and The St. Louis MUNY. TELEVISION: Law and Order SVU, The
Sopranos, Cashmere Mafia, Lipstick Jungle, M.O.N.Y (pilot), As the World
Turns. FILM: Quarterlife Crisis, Hiding Divya, Two Men in Shoulder Stand.
RECORDINGS: singles on Vanessa Williams’ upcoming film And Then
Came Love and the independent film Hiding Divya; Frank London’s
concept album A Night in the Old Marketplace, and Sidd: the musical-LIVE.
GRADUATE: Carnegie Mellon University.
Manu is currently the lead singer of D A R U N A M a neo world rock
band that he founded with Radovan Jovicevic former leader of the European
band ZANA. Look for their single and debut video “All That’s
Beautiful Must Die” coming in Summer 2007.
www.darunam.com
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STEPHEN PETRILLI (Lighting Design) designed the 1998 production of Falsettoland,
as well as several other
shows for NAATCO. He has also designed several shows for The
Pearl Theatre Company, Second Generation Productions and the
Melting Pot Theatre Company. In the dance world, he has designed
for Pilobolus Dance Theatre, Shapiro & Smith Dance
and Ailey II. Regional theatre credits include designs for Penguin
Rep, The Village Theatre in Seattle, State Theatre Company in Austin
and the Three Rivers Shakespeare Festival in his hometown of Pittsburgh.
Stephen also spent five years touring as the Lighting/Sound Supervisor
for Pilobolus. He and his wife Shannon have a four year old boy,
Liam.
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ANN SANDERS(Trina) Broadway: Avenue
Q (Christmas
Eve), Beauty and the Beast (Belle). International/Regional: Miss
Saigon (Ellen), Show Boat (Julie), Carousel (Arminy), Man
of LaMancha (Antonia), The
King and I (Tuptim), Once Upon A Mattress (Lady Larkin),
The Boys Next Door (Shelia). Television Appearances: “As the World Turns,” “The
Rosie O’Donnell Show,” “All My Children.” Concert
Appearances: Carnegie Hall, Meyerson Concert Hall.
For Dad - Thank you.
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W. BRENT SAWYER (Music Director) A native Texan! Off-Broadway: Anne Of Green Gables,
Naked Boys Singing!, Forbidden Broadway, Monica! The Musical .
Broadway: AnnIe Get Your Gun . Regional: the premier of Titanic,
Blood Brothers, Tick Tick BOOM! , the world premier of Maury Yeston's
In The Beginning . Tours: Seussical,
Junie B. Jones . Has taught
at The Actor's Studio Drama School, Marymount Manhattan College,
New York University and AMDA. Member of the BMI Lehman Engel
Musical Theatre Workshop.
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BEN WU (Jason)
is 13 and making his Off-Broadway debut. He has
worked in print, commercials and TV but loves musical theatre. NY Theatre
Credits include; Sorrow in Madama Butterfly with
the New York City Opera at Lincoln Center and the staged reading of Call
It Courage . Regional;
The Nutcracker Prince in The Nutcracker , Jerome in South
Pacific , and
Tommy Djilas in The Music Man . He made his SNL debut
in a Digital Short where Peyton Manning hit him in the head with a fooball.
Other television include Nickelodeon’s
Fairly Odd Parents Promo, Lewis
Black HBO Promo and Late Night with Conan
O’Brien . Ben also enjoys studying ballet, tap, hip-hop,
theater dance, voice and violin.
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