Latest Asiansinnewyork Podcast Episodes
7: Arpita Mukherjee // Decolonization
East Side Story - October 14, 2019 16:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsArtistic Director of Hypokrit Theatre Company, an O'Neill and Lincoln Center Directing Fellow, Women's Project Lab (Director), Arpita's resume is endless. I have the extreme pleasure of working with Arpita on my musical, The Golden Threshold, and we sat down to dig deep into her story of coming t...
6: Eddy Lee // Being Hamilton (Part 2)
East Side Story - October 07, 2019 11:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsIn just a month, we've surpassed 1000 downloads of our podcast. Thank you for supporting this endeavor! Back to regularly scheduled programming, Part 2 uncovers Eddy's experience being Asian, my philosophy of conversation vs. confrontation, his time at Hamilton and more. Eddy is not only a light...
5: Eddy Lee // Being Hamilton (Part 1)
East Side Story - September 30, 2019 10:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsMaking his Broadway debut through auditions in open calls without an agent, Eddy Lee is the success story everyone should know. Since the interview is a little longer than usual, I have split up the episode in two. Part 1 delves into Eddy's life growing up, how he feels like he has three mother...
Bonus 2: Meetu Chilana & Sorab Wadia // Be Human
East Side Story - September 23, 2019 10:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsWe're up in Salem, CT doing a workshop of my new musical, The Golden Threshold. Since episodes are being delayed, here's another bonus episode with some of the cast, Meetu Chilana and Sorab Wadia. Full transcript will be available soon. IG: @eastsidestorypod / @cheeyangmusic / @meetuchilana / @so...
Bonus 1: Kimberly Chatterjee, Jamen Nanthakumar & Kuhoo Verma // Not Cultural Consultants
East Side Story - September 16, 2019 10:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsWe're up in Salem, CT doing a workshop of my new musical, The Golden Threshold. And since episodes are being delayed, here's a bonus episode with not one, but three cast members of the musical. Kuhoo Verma, who appeared in the first episode of the series, returns with Kimberly Chatterjee and Jame...
4: Cynthia Meng // From Moulin Rouge to Hadestown
East Side Story - September 09, 2019 10:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsGrappling with Otherness "Don't ever forget, you will be thought of as an other." - Cynthia Meng Within a year of freelancing, Cynthia has worked in rooms for musicals in-development on Broadway, Off-Broadway and out-of-town tryouts. What is her secret? Does it only have to do with luck, like s...
3: David Park // The Dichotomy of being Korean-American
East Side Story - September 02, 2019 04:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsAm I American Enough? "When I'm speaking to my mom, I literally don't have the vocabulary to express the depth of my emotion to her." - David Park Having not been back to Korea in over 17 years, David has always identified as American. But when faced with the world telling him that he's a "flav...
2: Desdemona Chiang // Mortality and Your Mother
East Side Story - September 02, 2019 04:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsSubverting Eurocentric Theatre "Am I entering a field that doesn't have me in its legacy?" - Desdemona Chiang Being an only-child shaped the lives of both Cheeyang and Desdemona. They connected over their shared over-achieving nature, big identity questions as theater artists, and their differe...
1: Kuhoo Verma // Racial Awakening
East Side Story - September 02, 2019 04:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsEmbracing Her Indianness "It was a huge transition going from hating myself and hating my Indianness and finding out that in the process of white-washing myself, I was erasing my parents' existence in my life." - Kuhoo Verma From graduating NYU, to booking a movie, to starring Off-Broadway and ...
0: Trailer // East Side Story
East Side Story - August 26, 2019 02:41 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsHighlights from the first 3 episodes of the season. Each week, Cheeyang sits down with an Asian or Asian-American artist working in the New York Theatre scene and excavates their life story — how they grew up, as well as projects they've worked on and upcoming work that we should anticipate. Gues...
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