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Brenda Wong Aoki

BRENDA WONG AOKI

  (1953 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    California Artists Management

From the New Victory Theatre on Broadway in New York City, to the Graz erzahlt in austria, to Sapporo, Japan, Brenda Wong aoki has established a new genre as a contemporary storyteller. a writer, performer, and recording artist, she has received numerous grants, fellowships and commissions for her original work. Of Chinese, Japanese, Spanish and Scots descent, her stories blend myth, streetlore, and real life. these Dramatic presentations synthesize Kyogen & Noh (Japanese traditional Theater), modern dance, and live jazz. Her debut album with composer/musician Mark Izu, Dreams and Illusions: Tales of the Pacific Rim, won the NaIRD best spoken word album of 1990 (INDIe award) and was released on Rounder Records. the Queen's Garden CD won a 1999 INDIe award and was released on the Asian Improv Label. aoki Was Named One Of the 500 Most Influential Asian Americans By avenue Magazine
- http://www.aatrevue.com

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America

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below is a list of Brenda Wong Aoki's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Fire In Heaven         Kuan Yin Our Lady Of Compassion         Mermaid Meat And Other Japanese Ghost Stories         Queen's Garden, The         Random Acts Of Kindness         Uncle Ginjiro's Girlfriend

Fire In Heaven

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Written with Mark Izu

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Kuan Yin Our Lady Of Compassion

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Written with Mark Izu

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Mermaid Meat And Other Japanese Ghost Stories

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Original music by Mark Izu

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-    1997

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Urban storytelling

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Queen's Garden, The

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story set amongst La's urban tribes, it's a love story its an epic, its very short

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Water Theatre, San Francisco    1992

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in "Contemporary Plays by Women of Color" Routledge, London, 1996   -

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Random Acts Of Kindness

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a Japanese-American woman has problems with Christian fundamentalists who think the Japanese songs she sings are incantations to the Devil

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Uncle Ginjiro's Girlfriend

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the true story of aoki's grand-uncle's love affair and subsequent marriage to a white woman which sparked the anti-Asian miscegenation laws of the early 1900's.
- http://www.aatrevue.com

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Original music by Mark Izu

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Yerba Buena Center For The Arts    1998

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Urban storytelling

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