CAATA Actions to Combat Anti-Asian Hate & Violence: Statement One

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Before reading further, have you checked and taken actions to respectfully ensure the safety and well being of AAPI staff, workers, family, neighbors, community members and their businesses/organizations?

It has been one week since the March 16th tragedy where eight people were murdered in Mvskoke (Muscogee/Creek), also known as Atlanta, six of them Asian American women. The horrifying assault in Atlanta is part of the long history of racial discrimination against Asians in the US, that comes during a rise in violence against our communities fueled by xenophobic politicized Covid-19 rhetoric and white supremacist policies and laws.

We mourn especially the Korean and Chinese victims murdered in the Atlanta shootings. Out of respect for the families who have requested names not be shared, we do not list them here. As we compose this statement, we are outraged and grief-stricken and our hearts go out to the families of the victims.

Over the past year, there has already been profound grief for more than 3,800 reports of anti-Asian racist incidents, mostly against women. We also mourn the recent violent deaths of Pak Ho, a 75-year-old Asian man and Vicha Ratanapakdee, 84 year-old Asian man, among others. We also express sympathetic rage for Noel Quintana, a 61 year-old Asian Pilipino man who lives with severe facial scarring from a violent attack with a box cutter.

Infuriatingly, Atlanta Cherokee County law enforcement officials attempted to dispute that the attack was a hate crime against Asians, downplaying the racial aspects of the murder. Instead, the officials relayed the perpetrator’s insistence that the attack was a result of his sex addiction and the Georgia officer said he was “having a bad day.” This erases the racism and misogyny at the heart of the attack. The perpetrator’s exoticizing and fetishizing fantasy is the reprehensible source of this violence. This erasure displays the lengths to which Americans will defend attacks of armed white men against the most vulnerable in our society, Asian/Pasifika and other Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) women.

As a national organization and theatre sector that advocates for Asian American artists and their communities, we, CAATA on behalf of Asian/Pasifika/Native/Middle Eastern North African (MENA) American Theatre Leaders, are outraged and condemn the attacks in Atlanta as well as the attacks throughout the U.S. during the pandemic. We condemn the cynical fear-mongering and hateful racism still spread by the former Trump Administration that has fueled a 150% increase in hate crimes against Asians.

We are fraught with exhaustion from working tirelessly to educate with no time to heal from trauma. We are in a constant state of hyper-vigilance to escape further violence as we protect our families, communities, artists, staff, businesses and theatre spaces. As we mourn, we sound the alarm and call on our public officials to take action. We are voicing our demands for local and national leadership to take charge, actively work against relentless implicit bias to end anti-Asian violence in concert with our Black peers calling to end anti-Blackness and systemic racism.

Our fellow Native/Indigenous, Black, and Latinx Artistic leaders are working in solidarity to demand that our white public officials and local and national theatre leaders and colleagues take action to move into the breach as we are under constant attack by a society that replicates hate, racism and bigotry that all comes from the same root cause: white supremacy. We demand you take action to end white supremacy now.

Many of us signing this statement have been assaulted and accosted with blame for the COVID-19 pandemic, which spread across the world last year. However, many of us have already endured racist verbal and physical abuse throughout our entire lives.

We don’t forget. We demand change. End deadly white supremacy now.

Unified In Just and Right Purpose,

CAATA Theatres & Artists

Signatories current as of April 18, 2021, 1:00 am HST,  7:00 am EST

CAATA Staff, Board, and Member Theater Representatives

Andrea Assaf, Artistic Director, Art2action Inc. (Tampa, FL)

Tammy Haili‘ōpua Baker, Associate Professor, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (Honolulu, HI)

Leilani Chan, Artistic Director, Teada Productions (Los Angeles, CA)

Tisa Chang, Artistic Producing Director, Pan Asian Repertory Theatre (New York, NY)

Snehal Desai, Artistic Director, East West Players (Los Angeles, CA)

Moses Goods, Artistic Director, ʻInamona Theatre Company, (Honolulu, HI)

Leslie Ishii, National BIPOC Coalition, Artistic Director, Perseverance Theatre (Tlingit Aani, AK)

Jamil Khoury, Silk Road Rising (Chicago, IL)

Stefanie Lau, Producing Artistic Leader, Artists At Play (Los Angeles, Ca)

Andi Meyer, Producing Artistic Director, Tradewind Arts Asian American Artists (Kansas City, MO)

Meena Natarajan, Executive/Literary Director, Pangea World Theater (Minneapolis, MN)

Joan Osato, Producing Director, Youth Speaks, Inc. (San Francisco, CA)

kt shorb, Producing Artistic Director, Generic Ensemble Company (Austin, TX)

Roger W. Tang, Executive Director, Pork Filled Productions (Seattle, WA)

Chay Yew, Immediate Past Artistic Director, Victory Gardens Theater (Chicago, IL)

Lily Tung Crystal, Artistic Director, Theater Mu (Minneapolis, MN)

Ralph B. Peña, Producing Artistic Director, Ma-Yi Theatre Company (New York, NY)

Ryan I. Kahaʻiʻōlelo Sueoka, ʻInamona Theatre Company (Kamōʻiliʻili, Waikīkī, Kona, Oʻahu, HI)

Ariel Estrada, Producing Artistic Director, Leviathan Lab (New York, NY)

CAATA Artists and Theaters

A. Rey Pamatmat, Playwright (Seattle, WA)

Abigail Pañares, BAD REP Theatre (San Francisco, CA)

AC Petersen, Choreographer, Writer & Lyricist (Seattle, WA)

Adlyn Carreras, Actor, Teaching Artist, Office Manager, Pangea World Theater (Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN)

Adrian Budhu, Deputy Director & Chief Operating Officer, Theatre Communications Group (New York, NY)

Ako Dachs, Founding Artistic Director, Amaterasu Za (New York, NY)

Alex Chester (New York, NY)

Alex Lin, Playwright (New York, NY)

Alexander Tom, Pace University (New York, NY)

Alison De La Cruz, Outside In Theatre

Alison Qu, Chuang Stage, Company One Theater, Pao Chinatown Project, Asian American Theater Artists of Boston (Boston, MA)

Alleluia Panis, Exec & Artistic Director, Kularts-SF, Choreographer & Film Director, APDance Projects (San Francisco, CA)

Alma Malabanan-McGrath, General Manager, Two RIver Theater (Red Bank, NJ)

Amanda L. Andrei, Playwright (Los Angeles, CA)

Amy Kim Waschke, Actor (Ashland, OR)

Amy Hill, Actor, Actor, Director & Playwright (Honolulu, HI)

Andy Chan Donald, Associate Artistic Director, A.C.T. (San Francisco, CA)

Andy Lowe, East West Players (Los Angeles, CA)

Angela Chan, The Cre8sian Project (Las Vegas, NV)

Anh Thu Pham, Managing Director, Theater Mu (St. Paul, MN)

Anita Yavich, Costume Designer & Professor (New York, NY)

Ankita Raturi, MFA student, UCSD, (San Diego, CA)

Ann Harada, Actor (New York, NY)

Anne Ishii, Executive Director, Asian Arts Initiative, (Philadelphia, PA)

Anne Yumi Kobori, Playwright, Actor, Founding AD of Utopia Theatre Project (San Francisco, CA)

Annie Jin Wang, Literary Manager & Dramaturg, Ferocious Lotus Theatre Company (New York, NY & Chicago, IL)

Ariana Johnson, Associate Producer, A.C.T. (San Francisco, CA)

Ariel Urim Chung, Actor & Director, Student (Davidson, NC)

Ashley Chang, Dramaturg, Playwrights Horizons (New York, NY)

Ashley Yung, Lighting Designer & Arts Coordinator, Pao Arts Center (Boston, MA)

Audrey Hoo, Production Manager, Berkeley Rep (Berkeley, CA)

Audrey Park, Actor, Programs Manager, Theater Mu (Twin Cities, MN)

Aureen Almario, Artistic Director, Bindlestiff Studio (San Francisco, CA)

Aya Hashiguchi Clark, Dukesbay Productions (Tacoma, WA)

Aya Ogawa, Playwright, Director & Translator (Brooklyn, NY)

ayo (Alicia) Ohs, (Brooklyn, NY)

Barbie Wu (Camas, WA)

Ben Gonio, Film Actor, Theatre Artist, Educator & Consultant

Bern Tan (New York, NY)

Bi Jean Ngo, Actor, Director & Educator (Philadelphia, PA)

Brian D. Lai, Actor & Screenwriter (Rockville, MD)

Brian McManamon, Actor, Teacher, Coach & Director (New York, NY)

Byron Au Yong, Composer & Educator (San Francisco, CA)

Cara Hinh, Director & Educator, (Indianapolis, IN)

Carla Ching, (Los Angeles, CA)

Caro Asercion, Artistic Production Associate, Crowded Fire Theater (San Francisco, CA)

Cat Ramirez, Director, Producer, & Creative Director, Philadelphia Asian Performing Artists (Philadelphia, PA)

Celeste Den, Actor (Los Angeles, CA)

Chelsea Barker (New York, NY)

Cherry Lou Sy, Playwright, Writer & Teacher (Brooklyn, NY)

Ching Valdes-Aran, Actor, Director & Visual Artist (New York, NY)

Chongren Fan, Artistic Director, Yangtze Rep & Producer, Pan Asian Rep (New York, NY)

(New York, NY)

Charlie Watanabe (Pasadena, CA)

Christi Cruz, Wedgwood Drama Studio (Seattle, WA)

Christina R Chan, Co-Founder, Asian American Playwright Collective, API Arts Network (Boston, MA)

Christine Fang, Actor & Writer (New York, NY)

Christopher Chen, Playwright

Ciarlene Coleman, Actor, AD Emeritus MaArte Theatre Collective (San Diego, CA)

Cindy Cesca Yoshiyama, Managing Director, Ferocious Lotus Theatre Company (San Francisco & Berkeley, CA)

Cindy Cheung, Actor & Founding Member, AAPAC (New York, NY)

Cindy Tsai, Actor, ZAPI Artists, Broadway For Racial Justice (New York, NY)

Clint Ramos, Designer, Co-Founder, Design Action (New York, NY)

Conrad A Panganiban, Playwright, Bindlestiff Studio (Alameda, CA)

Crystal Wei, Mount Tremper Arts (Mount Tremper, NY)

Cynthia Woo, Director, Pao Arts Center, API Arts Network (Boston, MA)

DaEun Jung, Choreographer & Performer (Los Angeles, CA)

Dale Minami, MinamiTamaki LLP, Stop Repeating History (San Francisco, CA)

Daniel Jue (La Canada, CA)

Daria Miyeko Marinelli, Playwright & Screenwriter (Los Angeles, CA)

David Furumoto (Madison, WI)

David Rhee, Token Theatre (Chicago, IL)

David Shih (New York, NY)

David Winitsky, Jewish Plays Project (Brooklyn, NY)

Dawn Akemi Saito, Theatre Artist, Actor, Director & Teacher (New York, NY)

Dax Valdes, Theater Maker, Trainer, Hollaback! (New York, NY)

DeAnna Choi (Clearwater, FL)

Debórah Eliezer, Artistic Director, foolsFURY Theater (San Francisco, CA)

Deborah Rosencrans (Boston, MA)

Deeksha Gaur, Show-Score for TodayTix Group (New York, NY)

Dennis Arashiro, JACL Alaska Chapter/Anchorage Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (Anchorage, AK)

Dennis Ihara, Playwright, Actor & Author (HI)

Desdemona Chiang, Director (Seattle, WA & Ashland, OR)

Desiree Mee-Jung (Pasadena, CA)

Diane Phelan, Founding Team Member, #RacismIsAVirus, Unapologetically Asian, Broadway Diversity Project (New York, NY)

Diane Paulus, American Repertory Theater (Cambridge, MA)

Dominique Nisperos, Circle Comedy Theatre (New York, NY)

Dmae Roberts, Executive Producer, Media Rites (Portland, OR)

Elisheba Ittoop, Sound Designer & Composer, Co-Chair of USA 829’s Respectful Workplace Committee (New York, NY)

Elizabeth (Lisa) Liang, Actor, Writer, Producer & Facilitator (Los Angeles, CA)

Elizabeth Son, Associate Professor, Department of Theatre & Director, Interdisciplinary PhD, Theatre and Drama, Northwestern University (Evanston, IL)

Elizabeth Wong, Playwright & Director (Los Angeles, CA)

Ellen Bepp (Oakland, CA)

Ely Sonny Orquiza, AD, The Chikahan Company & Teaching Artist, Faculty YC EduComm, American Conservatory Theater (San Francisco, CA)

Emika Abe, Managing Director, Woolly Mammoth (Washington, DC)

Emily Gardner Xu Hall, Composer, Lyricist, Playwright & Actor (New York, NY)

Emily Schneider (Silver Spring, MD)

Emilya Cachapero, Director of Artistic & International Programs, TCG (New York, NY)

Eric Keen-Louie, Producing Director (San Diego, CA)

Eric Ting, California Shakespeare Theater

Erica Lauren Ortiz, Theatre Communications Group (Wood Ridge, NJ)

Erika Chong Shuch, Performance Maker, Choreographer & Director (Berkeley, CA)

Erin Quill, Diversity Advocate, Actor & Director (New York, NY)

Eugenie Chan, Artistic Director & Playwright, Eugenie Chan Theater Projects (San Francisco, CA)

Eunice Bae, Actor & Graphic Designer (New York, NY)

Eunice Wong, Actor (Princeton, NJ & New York, NY)

Flordelino Lagundino, Producing Artistic Director (Juneau, AK)

Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig, Playwright (Providence, RI)

Francesca Fernandez McKenzie (New York, NY)

Francis Jue (New York, NY)

Gabriel Barrera, ScenicG (Ashland, OR)

Gaven Trinidad, New York Theatre Workshop (New York, NY)

Gedde Watanabe (Pasadena, CA)

George Kon, Alliance for Drama Education/ T-Shirt Theatre (Honolulu, HI)

Gina Pisasale, People’s Light (Philadelphia, PA)

Ginger Poole, Producing Artistic Director, Mill Mountain Theatre (Roanoke, VA)

Gladys Chen, Second Generation Productions (New York, NY)

Gregory Keng Strasser, 4615 Theatre (Washington, DC)

Hahnji Jang, Costume Designer (Lenape, Brooklyn, NY)

Haley Sakamoto, Actor & Writer (New York, NY & Kāneʻohe, HI)

Hana Kadoyama, Stage manager & Dramaturg (Ohlone land, Oakland, CA)

Hana Kim, Scenic & Projection Designer (Los Angeles, CA)

Hari Bhaskar, Stella Adler Studio of Acting (New York, NY)

Hazel Anne Raymundo, Actor (Summit, NJ)

Heath Hyun Houghton, Actor & Writer (Portland, OR)

Huy Nguyen (Chicago, IL)

Isabella Dawis, Playwright & Actor (Minneapolis, MN)

J. Lorenzo Perillo, Assistant Professor, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Choreographer, Author (Honolulu, HI)

Jaclyn Backhaus, Playwright, fresh ground pepper (New York, NY)

James Chew, (New York, NY)

James S. Moy, Professor, Theatre & Dance, University of South Florida (Tampa, FL)

James Yaegashi, Actor & Director (New York, NY)

Jamie Gahlon, HowlRound Theatre Commons (Boston, MA)

Jane Kate Wong, Interaction & Digital Design, Architect, Ad Council (New York, NY)

Jane Mantiri, AGE – Advance Gender Equity in the Arts (Portland)

Janet Tom (San Francisco, CA)

Jason Ma, Board of Directors, Writer & Actor, Prospect Theater Company

Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew, Director, Designer & Puppet Artist (New York, NY)

Jeannie Wong Wood, Executive Director, Community Asian Theatre of the Sierra (Nevada City, CA)

Jeanne Sakata, Actor & Playwright (Los Angeles, CA)

Jeannie Barroga, Playwright (San Francisco, CA)

Jeffrey Omura, Actor & Candidate for NYC Council District 6 (New York, NY)

Jenna Rodgers, Chromatic Theatre (Calgary, AB)

Jennifer Aquino, Actor & Producer (Los Angeles, CA)

Jennifer Chang, Director & Actor, UCSD Faculty, Co-Founder Chalk Repertory Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)

Jenny Koons, Director, Let’s Talk About Hard Stuff (New York, NY)

Jeremy Stone, Business Matters in the Visual Arts LLC (San Francisco, CA)

Jessica Chen, J CHEN PROJECT (New York, NY)

Jessica Hagedorn

Jimin Moon, Student, Penn State Musical Theatre (State College, PA)

Jiyoun Chang, Lighting & Set Designer (New York, NY)

Jo Mei, Actor (Los Angeles, CA)

Joanne Javien, Actor & Voice Teacher (Astoria, NY)

Joanne Pan, Stage Manager (New York, NY)

Jocelyn Prince, ALJP Consulting (Chicago, IL)

John D. Haggerty, (New York, NY)

Jojo Gonzalez, Ma-Yi Theatre Company (Wappingers Falls, NY)

Jon Lawrence Rivera, Artistic Director (Los Angeles, CA)

Jonathan Castanien, Stage Manager, Co-Founder, The Sống Collective (Brooklyn, NY)

Jonathan McCrory (New York, NY)

Jose “Jojo” Abaoag, Book-It Repertory Theatre, Independent Artist (Seattle, WA)

Jose Luis Valenzuela, Artistic Director, Latino Theater Company (Los Angeles, CA)

Josephine Lee, Professor, English and Asian American Studies, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (Minnneapolis, MN)

Josephine Wang, Lighting Designer (Los Angeles, CA)

Joyce Lu, Director, LAPlayback Theatre Co., AssociateProf & Chair of Theatre and Dance, Pomona College (Los Angeles, CA)

Judith Nihei, (San Francisco, CA)

Julie Guerrero, Artist (New York, NY)

Julie Kuwabara, Actor, Producer & Comedy Sketch Artist (San Francisco, CA)

Julienne Hanzelka Kim, Actor, Founding Member AAPAC (New York, NY)

Jully Lee, Actor & AD, Cold Tofu Improv (Los Angeles, CA)

Junghyun Georgia Lee, Designer (New York, NY)

Jupiter Le (Boston, MA)

Justin Wing-Timm Yu (New York, NY)

Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin, Playwright, Producer, Performer & Educator (Sunnyvale, CA)

Karthik Subramanian, Managing Director (Boston, MA)

Katelyn Trieu, Actor & MFA Student, UConn (Edmonton, AB, CA)

Kathy Hsieh, Co-Executive Producer, SIS Productions, Funder, Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, Theatre Actor & Activist (Seattle, WA)

Kathy Takayama (Providence, RI)

Katie Nguyen, Production Manager, Portland Center Stage (Portland, OR)

Katie May Porter (New York, NY)

Kayla Kim Votapek, Anti-Racist Facilitator & Creative Producer (Jersey City, NJ)

Keiko Shimosato Carreiro (San Francisco, CA)

Ken Leung (Brooklyn, NY)

Ken Savage, Associate Producer, Oregon Shakespeare Festival & Freelance Director (San Francisco, CA)

Kendyl Ito, Theater Maker (Astoria, NY)

Kenneth Lee, Actor, Founding Member, AAPAC (New York, NY)

Kiana Rivea, Playwright (Los Angeles, CA)

Kim Montelibano Heil, Associate Producer & Casting Director, San Diego Repertory Theatre (San Diego, CA)

Kimber Lee, Playwright (New York, NY)

Kristin Villanueva, Actor, The Actors Center’s Equity Assessment & Oversight Team Member, ShopRunner’s DEI Council Member (Astoria, NY)

Kristina Wong, Solo Performer, Elected Official & Overlord of the “Auntie Sewing Squad” (Los Angeles, CA)

Krystin Matsumoto, Production Manager, Center Theatre Group (Los Angeles, CA)

Krystle Piamonte, Actor, Founder & Co-Artistic Director, The Chikahan Company (San Francisco, CA)

Lanxing Fu, Co-Director, Superhero Clubhouse & Theater Artist (New York, NY)

Lauren Sumida, Tsuru For Solidarity (New York, NY)

Lauren Yee, Playwright (New York, NY)

Lavina Jadhwani, Director, Adaptor & Activist (Chicago, IL)

Lawrence Siulagi, Theatre & Film Maker, Resident Artist, Bag&Baggage Productions (Portland, OR)

Leah Ogawa, Director & Puppeteer

Leah Vicencio, The Broadway Sinfonietta

Lia Chang, Bev’s Girl Films (New York, NY)

Liana Shou Irvine, Dramaturg & Lit Manager, Philadelphia Asian Performing Artists (Philadelphia, PA & San Francisco, CA)

Lily Tung Crystal, Theater Mu (Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN)

Lina Patel, Writer & Actor (Los Angeles, CA)

Linda Chin (Cambridge, MA)

Linda Cho (New York, NY)

Linda Faigao Hall (Brooklyn, NY)

Linda Parris-Bailey

Lipica Shah, Actor, AAPAC, 1497 (New York, NY)

Lisa Gold, Executive Director, A4 (Brooklyn, NY)

Lisa Hori-Garcia, Actor, Director & Teaching Artist (Denver, CO)

Lisa Sanaye Dring, Associate Artistic Director, Circle X Theatre Co. (CA)

Lloyd Suh (South Orange, NJ)

Lois Shih, Actor & MFA Student, UCSD, (San Diego, CA)

Lydia Tanji, Costume Designer (Berkeley, CA)

Lynne Itamura, (Los Angeles, CA)

M.J. Kang, Actor & Playwright (Los Angeles, CA)

Makoto Hirano, Choreographer (Philadelphia, PA)

Malik Gillani, Co-Executive Artistic Director, Silk Road Rising (Chicago, IL)

Margaret Shigeko Starbuck (Pasadena, CA)

Maria Ta, Program Director, Ujima Company, Inc. (Buffalo, NY)

Maria-Christina Oliveras, Actor, Writer & Teacher

Marie-Reine Velez, Artists at Play (Los Angeles, CA)

Marilyn Abad-Cardinalli, Star Arts Education (Gilroy, CA)

Marisa Tecson Johnston, Independent Shakespeare Co. (Los Angeles, CA)

Mary E Jue (Sonoma, CA)

May Adrales, Artistic Director (New York, NY)

May Liang, Artistic Director (San Francisco, CA)

Mayank Keshaviah, Playwright & Educator (Los Angeles, CA)

Meena Malik, NEFA/API Arts Network Consultant & Musician (Torrance, CA)

Mei Ann Teo, Artistic Director, Musical Theatre Factory (New York, NY)

Mel Ng, Wingspace Theatrical Design, The Syndicate (New York, NY)

Melisa Tien, Playwright, Lyricist, Librettist, Producer & Educator

Mia Katigbak, Actor, Manager, Co-Founder, NAATCO, Founding Director, CAATA (New York, NY)

mia park, Our Perspective: Asian American Plays (Chicago, IL)

Micah Rosegrant, AATAB/API Arts Network; Arts Connect International (Shawmut, MA)

Michael Locher, Director of Design, Alley Theatre (Houston, TX)

Michael Sakamoto, UMass Fine Arts Center (Amherst, MA)

Michelle M. Aguillon, Asian American Playwright Collective (Boston, MA)

Michelle Fujii, Co-Director, Unit Souzou (Portland, OR)

Michelle Talgarow, Theatre Maker, Performer, Director & Educator (Bay Area, CA)

Mike Lew, Playwright (Brooklyn, NY)

Mikiko Suzuki MacAdams, Set Designer (New York, NY)

Mimi Lien, Set Designer (Brooklyn, NY)

Min Kahng, Board Member, TYA/USA, Playwright, Composer, Lyricist, Creative Coach (Alameda, CA)

Mina Morita, Artistic Director, Crowded Fire Theater Company (San Francisco, CA)

Minette A Kwok (San Francisco, CA)

Minita Gandhi, Actor & Playwright, AGE – Advance Gender Equity in the Arts (Los Angeles, CA)

Miranda Cornell, Director & Maker (New York, NY)

Maria-Tania Bandes B. Weingarden, University of Washington , Tacoma Theatre Program (Tacoma, WA)

MiRi Park, Associate Choreographer, RENT 25th Anniversary Tour, Dance Lecturer, Cal State Channel Islands (Thousand Oaks, CA)

Monalisa Amidar, Diwa Studios (Plano, TX)

Monika Ramnath (Los Angeles, CA)

Nicole Apostol Beuno, Actor, Playwright & Movement Artist (San Francisco, CA)

Naho Shioya, Theatre Artist & Educator, Race & Social Justice Consultant (Seattle, WA)

Nana Dakin, Director (Brooklyn, NY)

Nandita Shenoy, Actor & Writer, AAPAC (New York, NY)

Naomi Iizuka, Playwright & Teacher, UC-San Diego (San Diego, CA)

Narea Kang, Actor (San Francisco, CA & New York, NY)

Nelson Eusebio, Director (New York, NY)

Nicky Paraiso, Director of Programming,The Club at La MaMa, Chief Curator, La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club (New York, NY)

Nikki Meñez, Director, Casting & Educator, New Conservatory Theatre Center, Awesome Theatre (San Francisco, CA)

Oanh Nguyen, Artistic Director (Anaheim, CA)

Ogie Zulueta, Actor (New York, NY)

Ova Saopeng, TeAda Productions (Los Angeles, CA)

Patty Cachapero, Playwright & Actor (Los Angeles, CA)

Patty Sang, Actor, Voice Over, Writer & Producer (Seattle, WA)

Penny Pun, Playwright, Dramaturg & Producer (New York, NY)

Peter Kim, Actor, Producer, NAATCO, Founding Member, AAPAC (New York, NY)

Philip Kan Gotanda, University of California at Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)

Plato Seto, Stage Manager (New York, NY)

Priscilla Son, Programs & Communications Manager, Asian American Arts Alliance (A4) (Brooklyn, NY)

Raksak Kongseng, Thai Theatre Foundation, Theatre Communications Group (Little Ferry, NJ)

Randall Nakano (San Francisco, CA)

Randy Barbara Kaplan, Founding Artistic Director, GENseng Asian American Performance Ensemble (Geneseo, NY)

Rebecca Wear, Director & Educator (CA)

Rehana Lew Mirza, Playwright (Brooklyn, NY)

Rena M. Heinrich, Director, Assistant Professor of Theatre Practice, University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA)

Reiko Ho, Honolulu Theatre for Youth (Honolulu, HI)

Rhonda McBride, Japanese American Citizens League-Alaska Chapter (Anchorage, AK)

Rick Shiomi, Co-Artistic Director (Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN)

Rinabeth Apostol, Actor, Director & Educator (San Francisco, CA)

Rob Laqui, Creative Producer, NT America, Octopus Theatricals, The Industry Standard Group (Lenape lands, New York, NY)

Robert Francis Flor, Playwright, Pinoy Words Expressed Kultura Arts (Seattle, WA)

Roberta Uno, Theater Director & Director, ArtChangeUS (Amherst, MA)

Ron P. Muriera, Arts & Culture Consultant, Advocate and Activist (San José, CA)

Roxanne Schroeder-Arce, University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX)

Ruibo Qian (Brooklyn, NY)

Sabrina Liu, MFA Candidate, UCSD Department of Theatre and Dance (La Jolla, CA)

SAM Greene, The Little Art Factory (St. Paul, MN)

Sammie Choy, Director & Educator (Honolulu, HI)

Samson Syharath, Managing Artistic Director, Theatre Diaspora (Portland, OR)

Sango Tajima, Actor & Theatre Administrator (Tokyo, Japan)

Sara Carminati, National Performance Network (New Orleans, Bulbancha, LA)

Sarah Shin, Multi-Disciplinary Artist, AATAB/API Arts Network (Boston, MA)

Scarlett Kim, Director, Producer & Artist (Los Angeles, CA)

Seema Sueko, Director & Consultant (Arlington, VA)

Shaminda Amarakoon, Yale School of Drama (Wallingford, CT)

Shanta Thake, The Public Theater (Brooklyn, NY)

Soomi Kim, Actor & Theatre Maker (New York, NY)

Sophia Skiles, Head of Acting, Brown Trinity MFA

Sophie Aung, (New York, NY)

Socorro Santiago (North Bergen, NJ)

Steven Zhang, Lighting Designer (Brooklyn, NY)

Sulu LeoNimm, Theatre of the Oppressed NYC (Brooklyn, NY)

Sun Mee Chomet, AEA, Central Region Board Member (St. Paul, MN)

Sun Yung Shin, Poetry Asylum (Minneapolis, MN)

Sunny Hitt, Choreographer & Movement Director, Social DisDance Party (NY)

Sunshine Lampitoc Smith, General Manager, Ferocious Lotus Theatre Company (Walnut Creek, CA)

Susan Chinsen, Creative Producer, ArtsEmerson, Boston Asian American Film Festival, API Arts Network (Boston, MA)

Susan Lieu, Author, Performer, Playwright & Producer (Seattle, WA)

Tadia Rice, Tahirih Association (Kailua, HI)

Taiyo Na (Queens, NY)

Tanya Orellana, La Gente: The Latinx Theatre Design Network (Los Angeles, CA)

Taurie Kinoshita, Palikū Theatre, WCC (Honolulu, HI)

Thelma Virata de Castro, Playwright, Founder of San Diego Playwrights, Dramatists Guild San Diego Co-Ambassador (San Diego, CA)

Thom Sesma (New York, NY)

Thomas Pang, Artist (New Haven, CT)

Tiffany Villarin, Actor (New York, NY)

Tom Giza, Scenic Designer, Theatre Media (Las Vegas, NV)

Tom Lee, Director, Designer, Puppet Artist, Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival (Chicago, IL)

Tonilyn A. Sideco, Writer, Director, Performer & Creative Educator (San Francisco, CA & Brooklyn, NY)

Tony Aidan Vo, Actor, Musician, Co-Founder, The Lobbyists Theater Collective (New York, NY)

traci kato-kiriyama, Writer, Performer, Educator, Organizer, Director & Co-Founder, Tuesday Night Project (Los Angeles, CA)

Tracy Francis, Boom Arts (Portland, OR)

Trin V. Ho (Houston, TX)

Valerie Oliveiro, Red Eye Theater (Minneapolis, MN)

Valérie Thérèse Bart, Costume Designer, Design Action, NO MORE 10 out of 12s, Wingspace Theatrical Design (New York, NY)

Velina Hasu Houston, Writer, Distinguished Professor, Director of MFA Dramatic Writing, University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA)

Victor En Yu Tan, University of Missouri – Kansas City (Kansas City, MO)

Victor Malana Maog, Director, Producer & Educator (Berkeley, CA)

Victoria Linchong, Target Margin Theater (Brooklyn, NY)

Vivian Liu-Somers (Boston, MA)

Wai Yim, Managing Director of Token Theatre (Chicago, IL)

Wesley Tam, ARC Repertory Theatre (Berkeley, CA)

William Simmons, Phoenix Theatre Cultural Center (Indianapolis, IN)

Yohei Darius Suyama (Brooklyn, NY)

Yue Liu, Managing Director, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater (New York, NY)

Yura Sapi (Viviana Vargas Salvatierra), Steering Committee Member, Latinx Theatre Commons Founder of Advancing Arts Forward & BALISTIKAL (Bogotá, Colombia)

Zeyba Rahman (Newark, NJ)

AAPI Designers of Design Action

Asian American Arts Alliance

The Asian American Performers Action Coalition (AAPAC)

Contemporary Asian Theatre Scene (CATS)

National JACL, David Inoue

National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF)