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YOUR SUPPORT HAS HELPED US REACH NEW HEIGHTS
Thank you for doubling your impact!
$15,000 = $30,000
Thank you for your
support! We made our match! East West Players will receive an additional
$15,000 from the East West Players' Board of Directors. Thank you to our
66 donors who contributed by December 15.
Thank you to
Alfred Bague, Yoshio and Natsuko Akiyama, Tom Atha, Darlene Chan, Janet
and Jay Cohen, Karen Constine, Naomi & Henry Endow, Ruth Eliel and Bill
Cooney, Pamela Fond and Clifford Tom, Takashi Fujimoto, Maurice Godin and
Paula Thomson, Robert J. and Robin G. Heiber, Carrie Tsang Hidding, Paul &
Kimiyo Ige, Sam Imamoto, Roy and Nancee Iketani, Toshiko Ito, Roy Iwata,
Tara K. Inouye-Hill Trustee of the Hugh O'Mara Living Trust, Esther
Johnson, Mayer & Morris Kaplan Family Foundation, Rosalyn Kawahira, Laura
Kim, Lucy S. Kishiue, Clyde and Gayle Kusatsu, Mary Ellen Kwoh and Jack
Kou-Hwa Shu, Caroline Tsaw & S.K. Leong, Friends of Gary and Roni Long,
Maoyeh Lu, Michiko Ohye, Sachiko Magwili, David Scott Mathews, Theresa
Mayeda, D. McGrath, Amanda & Susana Munoz, Hideo & Miyoko Mura, Don,
Marsha & Thomas Nakanishi, Glenn Nakatani, Fredric Narumi, Jeffrey Osaka,
Thomas and Andrea Plate, Joann and Dawson Quon, Edward K. Sakamoto, Louise
Y. Sakamoto, Irving & Helen Sato, Freda Shen, Dorothy Shepherd, Marian
Shima, Jon and Barbara Shirota, Sherri Sobel, Raymond & Sharon Sugiyama,
Larry Gee & Susan B. Sutphin, George and Brad Takei, John "JT" Tamaki,
Mari and Randall Tamura, Norbert Tan, Janice Tarumoto, Judith Teitelman
and Aaron Paley, Jean Tsunekawa, Sumi Ujimori, Margery Vander Lugt, Les
and Karleen Van Dyke, Gary & Marsha Watanabe, Paul Wong & Tomm Wells &
Beamer, Robert Wood, Howard & Sumi Yata.
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2011
The PLANT THE SEEDS campaign succeeded in
committing 2000 theater seats to students, seniors and
communities in need.
The World Premiere of KRUNK FU BATTLE BATTLE, a
groundbreaking hip-hop musical conceived, developed and produced
at EWP, was nominated for LA Stage Alliance's Ovation Award for
Choreography and Lighting.
The 3rd National Asian American
Theatre Conference & Festival brought artists and arts leaders
from around the world to Los Angeles to continue pushing the
conversation on multicultural arts and to strengthen the
increasingly global field.
2010
EWP was honored with the California
Association of Teachers of English (CATE) Merit Award for
outstanding contributions toward the improvement of teaching
English & language arts through our Arts Education Theatre for
Youth program.
The Bank of America Neighborhood Excellence
Initiative Neighborhood honored East West Players with their
Neighborhood Builders Award.
EWP earned widespread critical acclaim for our
World Premiere production of ROAD TO SAIGON Developed and
Directed by Jon Lawrence Rivera, noted by the LA Times as
"extremely specialized, virtually unclassifiable, and utterly
enchanting."
2009
The James Irvine Foundation honored Producing Artistic
Director Tim Dang with its 2009 Leadership Award for "increasing
understanding of and appreciation for California's diversity and
creating new opportunities for Asian American artists" through
his work at East West Players.
California Community Foundation recognized EWP as a laureate
for its inaugural Unsung Heroes Award.
EWP partnered with Pan Asian Repertory in New York to
premiere IMELDA: A NEW MUSICAL by Nathan Wang, Sachi Oyama and
Aaron Coleman, directed by Tim Dang off-Broadway as part of the
2009 Asian American Theatre Festival.
EWP's Los Angeles production of Yasmina Reza's Tony Award
winning ART Directed by Alberto Isaac was lauded by critics as
"executed to near perfection" (LA Downtown News, 9/09).
The LA Ovation Awards recognized our May 2009 production of
Jason Robert Brown's THE LAST FIVE YEARS directed by Jon
Lawrence Rivera with 4 nominations (Musical in a Larger Theatre,
Direction of a Musical, Lead Actor in a Musical, and Lead
Actress in a Musical).
EWP launched a strategic partnership with
Southern California Edison to bring our Theatre for Youth tour
to underserved schools in low-income and distressed communities.
2004-2008 Highlights
In 2008, YELLOW FACE by David Henry Hwang (originally written
at Producing Artistic Director Tim Dang's request) became a
finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Dramatic Writing after
its New York debut.
In 2007, YELLOW FACE by David Henry Hwang / directed by
Leigh Silverman (produced in association with Center Theatre
Group) and DURANGO by Julia Cho /directed by Chay Yew were
selected for the LA Times' Top Ten Productions of 2007, making
EWP the only theatre to have two productions listed.
In 2006, EWP hosted NEXT BIG BANG: THE EXPLOSION OF ASIAN
AMERICAN THEATRE, the first national Asian American theatre
conference uniting for the first time in history the nation's
Asian American artistic leaders, artists, and educators.
In 2004, Theatre Communications Group confirmed East West
Players is not only the largest Asian American theatre but also
the longest operating theatre of color in the nation.
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East West Players
120 Judge John Aiso St
Los Angeles, CA
90012
Questions?
Call or Email
Development
Manager
Rosalyn
Kawahira
213-625-7000 x17
rkawahira@eastwestplayers.org
FACT:
California has been ranked last in arts funding per
capita since 2003.
- National Assembly
of State Arts Agencies, 2009
Today, East West Players is working to strengthen our core infrastructure
to further bolster against a new economy where funding is more scarce and
marketing the arts, increasingly competitive.
FACT:
89% of California K-12 schools fail to offer a standards-based course of
study in all 4 art disciplines (music, visual arts, theatre, & dance).
- William &
Flora Hewlett Foundation, 2007
East West Players is filling huge gaps in an epidemic where the arts
continue to be devalued as an integral part of building empowered,
civic-minded and culturally-enriched citizens.
We believe the arts are essential in growing a healthy community.
Join us!
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