Get ready for a new way to watch theater…online. The play “Yellow Face” follows the misadventures of an Asian American playwright named DHH who leads the protest against the yellow face casting (the practice of casting Caucasian actors in Asian roles) in the Broadway production of “Miss Saigon”, only to mistakenly cast a Caucasian actor in an Asian role in his own play.

“Yellow Face” is based on David Henry Hwang’s play of the same name for which he received his third Obie Award in Playwriting and made him a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Hwang is an acclaimed playwright whose works include “FOB”, “Golden Child”, “Aida”, “Chinglish” and “M. Butterfly” for which he won the Tony Award.

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“Yellow Face” is directed by Jeff Liu, a theater veteran and Literary Manager at East West Players (the nation’s oldest and most respected Asian American theater), and features a cast with experience in film, TV, theater and YouTube including Ryun Yu (the first Korean American to graduate from London’s prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts), Christopher Gorham (“Covert Affairs”), Linda Park (“Star Trek: Enterprise”), San Shimono (original Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim’s “Pacific Overtures”), Emily Kuroda (“Gilmore Girls”), Ki Hong Lee (“The Nine Lives of Chloe King”) and popular YouTube personality Justin James Hughes.