41st Season 2006-2007

Yellow Face

By David Henry Hwang

Directed By Leigh Silverman

A Co-Production of CTG Mark Taper Forum

and the The Public Theatre of New York

in association with East West Players 

Set Designer David Korins

Costume Designer Myung Hee Cho

Lighting Designer Donald Holder

Sound Designer and Additional Music By Darron West

WORLD PREMIERE

Previews: May 10, 2007

Opening Date: May 20, 2007

This performance was held at the Mark Taper Forum

A biting and funny new play about race and identity in America by Tony Award-winner David Henry Hwang will have its world premiere as the final production of the Taper's 40th Season. Hwang writes himself into the middle of his play, which is launched with the backstage revelations of an earlier play he had written that flopped infamously on Broadway. It appears that a white actor had been unknowingly cast in the role of an Asian, which is especially embarrassing for Hwang who had led the Asian American uproar when a Welsh actor was cast as a Eurasian in the 1991 Broadway opening of Miss Saigon.

Cast

Julienne Hanzelka Kim.............................................Leah and others

Kathryn A. Layng............................................Jane, Miles, and others

Hoon Lee...................................................................................DHH

Tzi Ma........................................................................HYH and others

Lucas Ca......................................................Stuart, Rocco, and others

Peter Scanavino.....................................................................Marcus

Tony Torn...................................................................The Announcer

Understudies

John Ainsworth.........................Marcus, and Stuart, Rocco, and others

Jon Jon Briones................................................DHH, HYH, and others

Esther K. Chae..................Leah and others, and Jane, Miles, and others

Michael J. Krawic.............The Announcer and Sutart, Rocco, and others