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<\/a><\/p>\nThe first major anthology of contemporary Asian American drama in almost two decades, Version 3.0 collects Julia Cho’s\u00a0Durango, Sunil Kuruvilla’s\u00a0Rice Boy, Han Ong’s\u00a0Swoony Planet, Sung Rno’s\u00a0wAve, Diana Son’s Satellites, Alice Tuan’s\u00a0Last of the Suns and Chay Yew’s\u00a0Question 27, Question 28. Also included is\u00a0The Square, a choral piece meditating on 120 years of relationships between non-Asian Americans and the Asian American community, written by sixteen of today’s leading playwrights: Bridget Carpenter, Ping Chong, Constance Congdon, Kia Corthron, Maria Irene Fornes, Philip Kan Gotanda, Jessica Hagedorn, David Henry Hwang, Robert O’Hara, Craig Lucas, Han Ong,\u00a0Jos\u00e9 Rivera, Diana Son, Alice Tuan, Mac Wellman and Chay Yew.<\/p>\n
Editor Chay Yew points out that these third-wave writers “have expanded the world of Asian American theatre… [by] regarding ethnicity in a much more complicated mosaic of identity.” These playwrights explore the myriad ways in which Asians live in America: freely combining the Medea myth with wave-particle physics; nimbly moving between a field in Kitchener, Canada, and a treetop in Kerala, India; fully examining complexities of gender, sexuality, and family and all the while demonstrating the cultural and aesthetic diversity of their generation.<\/p>\n
Chay Yew is a noted playwright and director whose work has been produced Off-Broadway and across the U.S. He is the Artistic Director of Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago, has served as head of the Asian Theatre Workshop at the Mark Taper Forum and is a former Resident Director at East West Players.<\/p>\n