CollaborAzian

27/08/2022

Did you All hear? We won a !!

Love this post from our amazing director :

“So this arrived in the mail yesterday. Last year I got to direct an all-Asian virtual production of the Broadway musical A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder produced by and starring and Cindy Cheung. It won a 2022 Telly Award and I could not be more humbled and proud. Happy Thursday all!”

16/07/2022

Today is the one year anniversary of the production that began it all for us here at and to celebrate we’re sharing a version of our trailer we hadn’t released before!

Who got to see A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder when it streamed on ??

31/05/2022

Beautiful.

Members of the company recently celebrated Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with a photo shoot with photographer Mari Uchida.

11/05/2022

Thank you to for interviewing us at CollaborAzian for your Asian Pacific American History Month feature! We were happy to reminisce and talk about GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE and what’s up next with you.

To read the full article and check out what



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had to say, check out the link in bio or the link below:

https://www.mtishows.com/news/collaborazians-guide-to-a-gentlemans-guide

27/03/2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/03/21/martha-graham-dancer-yuriko-dead/

She was associated with Graham for more than 50 years and danced on Broadway in “The King and I” and “Flower Drum Song.”

02/03/2022

The RepresentAsian Tho 🙌🏽✨

Posted • 🗣️ The Sharma sisters have ARRIVED. Season 2 of premieres March 25, only on .

15/01/2022

Wishing our very own Karl Josef Co] a happy birthday!

We love this bday shot from the calendar Karl is featured in this year, taken by COLLABORAZIAN friend & photog Mari Uchida]

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Posted • Karl Josef Co] Today’s my birthday! 🎉

Every year, on this date, I get self-reflective and for the first time ever, I think I can genuinely say out loud that I’m proud of who I’ve become. 😁

This last year, I focused on prioritizing my mental / emotional health. Though I’ll always be a work in progress - the healing, the clarity, & the freedom just hits different. 🎂

Also, if you haven’t yet, grab a copy of the 2022 Broadway Asian Men Calendar where you’ll see this photo in May. Proceeds go to Stop AAPI Hate. Cheers!

📸: Mari Uchida]

04/01/2022

THE BROADWAY ASIAN MEN CALENDAR IS HERE 🎊🎉🍾

Proud to be a media and community partner on this project, whose message of representation for the API community in line with our values as a collective 🙌🏽

->Scroll for some teaser shots of our runner up pic choices for the calendar 👉🏽👉🏽👉🏽

The Broadway Asian Man Calendar is a celebration of the hot Asian men of Broadway. Brought to you by Unapologetically Asian in collaboration with photographer Mari Uchida, this collection is our love letter to the Asian community and aimed at dispelling the negative stereotypes that Asian men face in Media, Broadway, and beyond. Unapologetically Asian is the brand action campaign to empower all generations of Asian and Asian Americans to take pride in who we are. We are proud to lifting and amplifying the efforts of Stop AAPI Hate with the partial proceeds of this calendar benefiting their non-profit efforts.

Get your calendar at the link in our bio for an amazing cause ✊🏽

31/12/2021

Amazing news& about time 🥲🙌🏽
💥American Girl is releasing the very first Asian American girl as the company’s 2022 Girl of the Year doll on Thursday.

“We know representation matters, and we’re proud to welcome Corrine Tan to our lineup of important characters who reflect what it means to be an American girl today,” Jamie Cygielman, general manager at American Girl, said in a written statement exclusively provided to TODAY Parents. “Wrapped around Corrine’s outdoor adventures are important messages about kindness, tolerance, and love — showing kids that they’re never too young to contribute to the larger conversation and stand up for positive change.”

Corrine Tan lives in Aspen, Colorado, with her sister, Gwynn — the first “little sister” doll standing 14’’ tall. Corrine loves to ski with her dad, and wants to train her dog to be a ski patrol rescue canine. Her story, written by “The Great Wall of Lucy Lu” author Wendy Shang, explores changing family dynamics. Corrine deals with her mom remarrying after her parents’ divorce, explores her Chinese heritage, and is exposed to the rise in anti-Asian hate crimes.

In 2020, the country experienced a rise in anti-Asian hate crimes in response to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and anti-China rhetoric regurgitated by elected officials. In newly-corrected data released by the FBI in Oct. 2021, anti-Asian hate crimes rose 73 percent in 2020. Between March 19, 2020, and June 2021, Stop AAPI Hate, a national coalition that gathered data on racially motivated attacks related to the pandemic, received 9,081 incident reports.

“An iconic American Girl is more than blonde hair and blue eyes,” said Ria Pretekin, 40, a Filipino-American mom of two living in Illinois. “An Asian American girl is also American, and in the wake of anti-Asian hate it would help to dispel the otherness. I’d love for Asian American children to feel the pride of their identities.”

Pretekin said that as a daughter of immigrants she wasn’t exposed to the American Girl brand when she was a little girl, and never saw herself represented in any of the dolls.

(Story: NBC News, )

19/11/2021

CollaborAzian’s own Karl Josef Co] has just booked a Major job on the new NBC Entertainment] show ENDGAME!!

Post by• Karl Josef Co]

“So incredibly excited to be a part of this kickass show with these amazing people. Let’s get our heist on! NBC Entertainment]

17/11/2021

From ’s :

“This is dedicated to the Asian American community. May our journey towards visibility and belonging get easier with each story told and closer with each generation. 

I have never seen an Asian Clara In Light in the Piazza, so this project we are releasing to the world is as much for the young girl in me who longed to see someone that looked like myself playing this character and singing this music, as it is for all the future generations of Asian & Asian American girls who dream of getting on a stage and playing Clara.

The previous justification for lack of API representation has been “this character wouldn’t have been Asian”. Now that we are all starting to awaken to the fact Asian American history is long and has been omitted and erased systematically, we all know better. Asians have been in America since before there were cowboys. We’re here and we have been here. Let’s say it’s time to write us back into history.

The Beauty Is from The Light in the Piazza
by Adam Guettel

Executive Producer  
Diane Phelan

Producer
Michael Cutrone ()
Yuko Kudo ()

Directors
Diane Phelan
Michael Cutrone 

Cinematographer
Michael Cutrone 

1st AC
Yuko Kudo

Production Associate
Rogier de Boer ( )

Editor
David Spadora ()
Post Production Supervisor  Michael Cutrone
Featuring
Diane Phelan
Music Produced by
Steven Cuevas ()
Audio Engineer:
Jonathan Cuevas ( )
 
Orchestra
Piano: Steven Cuevas
Violin: Midori Yamamoto
Cello: Jonathan Cuevas
Harp: Kathryn Sloat
Bass: Danny Weller

Tremendous thanks to Michael Cutrone, Yuko Kudo, Steven Cuevas, Jonathan Cuevas, David Spadora, and Rogier de Boer. This could not have happened without them, it takes a village! As well, deep gratitude to the amazing musicians who made this track soar.

12/11/2021

Have you heard about GOLD MOUNTAIN?? Thrilled for our friends and collaborators especially + director on their production of at .

Love seeing new Asian American stories take the spotlight on American stages 🙌🏽
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Via

“There’s going to be…a show tonight!” I’ve had the pleasure of working on Jason Ma’s beautiful
for almost a decade and I am so thrilled to finally share a full production with audiences tonight. What our wonderful cast and crew, brilliant designers and exceptional creative team have made together is nothing short of magical. Yum bui!!