LAist + KCET ARTBOUND Screening Series: East West Players: A Home On Stage
- The Crawford, 474 S. Raymond Ave., Pasadena
LAist + KCET ARTBOUND Screening Series continues with a screening of East West Players: A Home on Stage. The renowned theatre company has been around since 1965 and continues to produce groundbreaking new work. As a home to Asian American artists, East West Players remains committed to “raising the visibility of the Asian American experience by presenting inventive world-class theatrical productions, developing artists of color, and providing impactful youth education programs.” This new documentary will explore the company’s history and lasting legacy. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion led by Antonia Cereijido (she/her), host of the Imperfect Paradise podcast from LAist Studios. Bar concessions will be available starting at 6 p.m.
SPECIAL GUESTS
- Zandi De Jesus (she/her), actress
- Yu Gu (she/her), director
- Tamlyn Tomita (she/her), actress
ABOUT THE FILM
“East West Players: A Home on Stage” – Wed., Nov. 8 at 9 p.m. on KCET / Fri., Nov. 10 at 8 p.m. on PBS SoCal
East West Players theatre company has been a home for Asian American artists such as George Takei, John Cho, Daniel Dae Kim, James Hong and many others featured in this documentary. Through candid conversations about the creative process, the film chronicles the 58-year history of the longest running ethnic theatre in the United States, founded by a group of rebellious Asian American actors in 1965. The theatre troupe continues to produce works and educational programs that give voice to the Asian American experience.
ARTBOUND is supported in part by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Department of Arts and Culture and Creative Recovery LA, the National Endowment for the Arts, and other generous institutional funders.
ABOUT ARTBOUND
ARTBOUND is the award-winning series that captures the spirit of the arts and culture community in Southern California and beyond. The Original series explores and illuminates the cultural issues of our times, providing critical in-depth analysis of how arts and culture affect society. ARTBOUND recognizes the need for access to the arts, arts education and connecting local artists with audiences and in fact, acts as Southern California’s largest stage. Utilizing public media as a space to find quality arts and culture programming, ARTBOUND reveals cultural touchstones that have shaped the fabric of the region’s communities and a nation whose story is indelibly linked to the arts.
ABOUT PBS SOCAL and KCET
PBS SoCal and KCET are both part of the donor-supported community institution, the Public Media Group of Southern California. PBS SoCal is the flagship PBS station for diverse people across California and delivers content and experiences that inspire, inform and educate. PBS SoCal offers the full slate of beloved PBS programs including MASTERPIECE, NOVA, PBS NewsHour, FRONTLINE, and a broad library of documentary films with works from Ken Burns; as well as educational content including PBS KIDS programs like DANIEL TIGER’S NEIGHBORHOOD and CURIOUS GEORGE. KCET showcases the best of PBS and is a leading source for arts, culture, and news in Southern California. Through innovative storytelling, KCET explores and expresses our dynamic local communities helping residents understand and connect with the region's diverse communities and ideas. For additional information about both KCET and PBS SoCal productions, web-exclusive content, programming schedules and community events, please visit kcet.org and pbssocal.org KCET Originals and PBS programming are available to stream on the FREE PBS App on iOS and Android devices, Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Android TV, Samsung Smart TV, Chromecast and VIZIO SmartCast TV. KCET is also available to watch live on YouTube TV.
ABOUT ANTONIA CEREIJIDO
Antonia Cereijido has served as Executive Producer at LAist Studios and was the host of the LAist podcast Norco '80. She was a producer for six years on NPR’s Latino USA and hosted her own segment, The Breakdown. She has hosted podcasts for Mic and Slate. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, NPR’s Code Switch, and All Things Considered.
ABOUT TAMLYN TOMITA
Tamlyn Naomi Tomita (she/her) is an American actress of Japanese descent. She made her screen debut as Kumiko in The Karate Kid Part II (1986) and reprised the character for the streaming series Cobra Kai (2021). She is also well known for her role as Waverly in The Joy Luck Club (1993). Additional films include Come See the Paradise (1990), Picture Bride (1994), Four Rooms (1995), Robot Stories (2003), The Day After Tomorrow (2004) and Gaijin 2: Love Me as I Am (2005).
Tomita also has played several recurring roles on television series, including 24, Glee, Teen Wolf and How to Get Away with Murder. She starred on the Epix drama series Berlin Station (2016), and in 2017 began starring in the ABC medical drama The Good Doctor. In 2020, she had a recurring role in Star Trek: Picard.
ABOUT YU GU
Yu Gu is a filmmaker and visual artist born in Chongqing, China and raised in Vancouver, Canada. She explores the clash between individual identity and social forces with a lyrical and visceral approach. Yu’s hybrid documentary A MOTH IN SPRING, which follows her family’s fight for freedom of expression in China, premiered at Hot Docs International Film Festival and was broadcast on HBO.
She co-directed the feature documentary, WHO IS ARTHUR CHU?, chronicling the redemption of an Asian American Jeopardy! champion turned internet iconoclast. The award-winning film premiered at the 2017 Slamdance Film Festival, broadcast on Emmy Award-winning series America Reframed on PBS and released across all digital platforms. Her second film continues to explore the intimate journeys of people rising from the margins to transform the mainstream.
She is an alumnus of the Film Independent Documentary Lab, the Firelight Media Producer’s Fellowship, the TFI/CNN/Points North Institute Story Lab, and the Sundance Institute Rockefeller Foundation documentary partnership. Yu received her MFA in film production from the University of Southern California and a BA from the University of British Columbia.
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