{"id":9825,"date":"2011-07-31T19:08:26","date_gmt":"2011-07-31T19:08:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-07-31T19:08:10","modified_gmt":"2011-07-31T19:08:10","slug":"Chay-Yew-edits-Anthology-of-Asian-American-Plays-","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=9825","title":{"rendered":"Chay Yew edits Anthology of Asian American Plays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Playwright and director Chay Yew has edited Version 3.0, a major new collection of contemporary Asian American plays<\/strong>, which has just been published by Theatre Communications Group. Tony Award winner David Henry Hwang has written the forward for the volume.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The collection includes Julia Cho&#8217;s Durango, Sunil Kuruvilla&#8217;s Rice Boy, Han Ong&#8217;s Swoony Planet, Sung Rno&#8217;s wAve, Diana Son&#8217;s Satellites, Alice Tuan&#8217;s Last of the Suns and Chay Yew&#8217;s Question 27, Question 28.<\/strong> Also included is The Square, a choral piece meditating on 120 years of relationships between non-Asian Americans and the Asian American community, written by sixteen of today&#8217;s leading playwrights: Bridget Carpenter, Ping Chong, Constance Congdon, Kia Corthron, Maria Irene Fornes, Philip Kan Gotanda, Jessica Hagedorn, David Henry Hwang, Robert O&#8217;Hara, Craig Lucas, Han Ong, Jos\u00e9 Rivera, Diana Son, Alice Tuan, Mac Wellman and Chay Yew.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yew is currently the Artistic Director of Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago<\/strong>, has served as head of the Asian Theatre Workshop at the Mark Taper Forum and is a 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