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Victor Maog, Artistic Director of Second Generation (2g), a theatre company that puts Asian-American stories on the world stage, announced today that over 30 multi-ethnic artists will be featured in 2G: SIXTEEN GOING ON SEVENTEEN, which will play Joe's Pub, 425 Lafayette Street,on Monday, June 24, at 7pm. The event celebrates SECOND GENERATION (2g)'s 2012-13 season and introduces its commissioned writers.
Composer/lyricst Adam Gwon, playwright Anna Moench, and playwright Sung Rno & musician AaRon Jones will provide a sneak peek at their plays and musicals-in-progress. Mrinalini Kamath and Lolan Buhain Sevilla will also showcase work from 2g's Instant Vaudeville: Breaking Bamboo and Community Voices: The Next GenderAsian.Adam Gwon was named one of "50 to Watch" by The Dramatist magazine and hailed "a promising newcomer to our talent-hungry musical theater" by The New York Times. His songs are sung by the likes of 5-time Tony Award-winner Audra McDonald on her albums and on PBS. This musical is Adam Gwon's personal journey in claiming his bi-racial identity.
Gwon states, ""Both sides of my family's heritage are defined by flight: my mom's father, a German Jew, fled his homeland during World War II; my dad's mother, the daughter of a political figure in Hong Kong, was forced to flee her home in the wake of the Communist revolution. Growing up, I heard these stories in pieces, trying my best to stitch together the narrative that led, somehow, from these epic journeys to a musical theater kid in the suburbs of Baltimore."
Sung Rno is an NEA/TCG Playwrighting Fellow, graduating from Harvard and Brown. AaRon Jones graduated from NYU's Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. Anna Moench is a recent Jerome and Van Lier Fellow, as well as a member of The Public Theater's Emerging Writer's Group.
"Each of these brave artists are publicly taking on the very personal challenge of Asian-ness. It's going to be a very special night all for us. We're in one of the sexiest rooms in NYC - where some of the greatest talents in the world have performed - and we're going double or nothing," states Maog, who will directs the evening.
