GENseng: Asian American Performance Ensemble, 1999-2022

08/27/2022

For GENsengers who get their news from this page!

Years before he would make his entrance into Major League Baseball, Japanese outfielder Ichiro Suzuki, then 22, made a trip stateside.

07/31/2022

GENsengers who get their news from this page, it is our Johnson Chong (FALLING FLOWERS)! Please tune in! (Marjorie Chan, Nancy Kim, Fiona Lee, Caleb P**n, Hanna Lydia, Hara Kang, Danny Lee, Kristen Yu-Um, Lydia Wu-Morales !)

Is blood really thicker than water? Is being family enough to outweigh the toxicity of an unhealthy relationship? Over 1 in 4 American adults have experience...

05/10/2022

So proud of GENseng's latest accomplishment, closing out its 23rd years of continuous production, "The Chinese Lady" by Lloyd Suh. Pictures to come.

04/20/2022

How many GENsengers know that the NY Yankees' catcher is Asian American?

02/26/2022

For GENsengers who get their GENseng news from this page! See anyone you know?

Join us this June in Connecticut for our YOUTH ARTS EDUCATORS track, led by MICHA faculty members Naomi Bailis, Chuk Obasi, and Phil Stoesz! Participants will have the opportunity to learn the fundamentals of Chekhov’s psychophysical approach and consider its application in their own creativity as well as their classroom practices. They will also learn the Critical Response Process, a holistic and generative method of giving and receiving feedback on works-in-progress.

For more information, and to register, visit https://www.michaelchekhov.org/international-michael-chekhov-workshop-festival-and-teacher-training/

01/04/2022

For GENsengers who get their GENseng news from this page, our Becky Margolis Sellmeyer("Falling Flowers" SM) and husband John welcomed daughter Rachel to their and the GENseng family last July!

12/27/2021

For GENsengers who get their news from this page, our Lea Pandoliano ("Ching Chong Chinaman") and and GENtraí'ers ("The Lieutenant of Inishmore," "Lonesome West") and her fiancé Jimmy Hatem announce their engagement! So excited for them both! Click on the photo to get a clearer photo!

12/18/2021

For GENsengers who get their GENseng news from this page, it's not theatre, and I'm not exactly a fan, shall we say, of beauty pageants, but when a Korean American woman becomes Miss America (Ms. America), it is worth a post. As well, the Punjabi woman who was designated Ms. Universe. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/evolution-international-indian-beauty-queen-rcna8934

When the winner was announced, Emma Broyles was sure it was a mistake: "I said, 'No way. Are you sure? Do you want to check that card again?' "

11/25/2021

For GENsengers who get their news from this page:. From our Fiona Lee (PAPER ANGELS, LETTERS TO A STUDENT REVOLTIONARY, FALLING FLOWERS)! Congrats and gongxi gongxi, dearest Fiona!

Fiona Lee reviews the film Barbarian Invasion by Malaysian director Tan Chui Mui, where a woman stars in an action flick after becoming a mother.