{"id":16636,"date":"2012-01-31T02:49:37","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T06:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=16636"},"modified":"2012-01-31T02:49:37","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T06:49:37","slug":"panel-to-discuss-lack-of-roles-for-asian-actors-on-and-off-broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=16636","title":{"rendered":"Panel to discuss lack of roles for Asian actors on and off Broadway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of Asian actors are currently giving excellent performances on and off Broadway \u2014 from Hettienne Park in \u201cSeminar\u201d and Jennifer Lim in \u201cChinglish\u201d to Li Jun Li and Nelson Lee in \u201cOutside People.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But chances for Asian actors to shine present themselves too infrequently, according to the Asian American Performer\u2019s Action Coalition (AAPAC). Its mission is to increase Asian-American performers\u2019 representation on the stage.<\/p>\n<p>The group\u2019s research, which one member calls \u201cquite shocking\u201d shows that only 1.6% of all available roles in new shows on Broadway during the last five years were filled by Asian actors.<\/p>\n<p>On Feb. 13 at 7 p.m., AAPAC and Fordham University present a discussion with industry leaders moderated by \u201cChinglish\u201d author David Henry Hwang on the subject at the school\u2019s Pope Auditorium.<\/p>\n<p>For more info: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/entertainment\/music-arts\/panel-discuss-shocking-lack-roles-asian-actors-broadway-article-1.1008716#ixzz1l13grALu\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of Asian actors are currently giving excellent performances on and off Broadway \u2014 from Hettienne Park in \u201cSeminar\u201d and Jennifer Lim in \u201cChinglish\u201d to Li Jun Li and Nelson Lee in \u201cOutside People.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-up-to-date-news-on-everything-asian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16636"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16638,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16636\/revisions\/16638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}