YELLOW FACE | Mu Performing Arts

February 4, 2010 - February 21, 2010

YELLOW FACE

written by David Henry Hwang
directed by Rick Shiomi

Guthrie Theater
818 South 2nd Street, Minneapolis, MN 55415

In classic David Hwang fashion, Yellow Face is a head-spinning comedy that delivers poignancy with a punch. Following the playwright’s alter-ego, DHH, the play takes us from the pinnacle of his Tony Award with M. Butterfly downward through the Miss Saigon controversy and a landscape of missteps, broken relationships, and political investigations. In this 2008 Pulitzer Prize finalist, Hwang turns his own travails into humorous insights and warns us that good intentions do not necessarily make the world go round.

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Randy Reyes (background) and Matt Rein in The Guthrie presentation of a Mu Performing Arts production of Yellow Face, by David Henry Hwang
Cast: Randy Reyes, Rose Tran, Erika Crane, Kim Kivens, Matt Rein, Wade Vaughn, Allen Malicsi, Don Eitel, Kurt Kwan
Designers: Joe Stanley - Set Design, Cana Potter - Costume Design, Wu Chen Khoo - Lighting Design, Forest Godfrey - Sound Design, Heidi Berg - Prop Design, Sandra Agustin - Choreography
Lisa Smith - Stage Manager

Randy Reyes and Kim Kivens in The Guthrie presentation of a Mu Performing Arts production of Yellow Face, by David Henry Hwang
Cast: Randy Reyes, Rose Tran, Erika Crane, Kim Kivens, Matt Rein, Wade Vaughn, Allen Malicsi, Don Eitel, Kurt Kwan
Designers: Joe Stanley - Set Design, Cana Potter - Costume Design, Wu Chen Khoo - Lighting Design, Forest Godfrey - Sound Design, Heidi Berg - Prop Design, Sandra Agustin - Choreography
Lisa Smith - Stage Manager

Don Eitel (background) and Randy Reyes in The Guthrie presentation of a Mu Performing Arts production of Yellow Face, by David Henry Hwang
Cast: Randy Reyes, Rose Tran, Erika Crane, Kim Kivens, Matt Rein, Wade Vaughn, Allen Malicsi, Don Eitel, Kurt Kwan
Designers: Joe Stanley - Set Design, Cana Potter - Costume Design, Wu Chen Khoo - Lighting Design, Forest Godfrey - Sound Design, Heidi Berg - Prop Design, Sandra Agustin - Choreography
Lisa Smith - Stage Manager

Kurt Kwan, Kim Kivens, Randy Reyes and Don Eitel in The Guthrie presentation of a Mu Performing Arts production of Yellow Face, by David Henry Hwang
Cast: Randy Reyes, Rose Tran, Erika Crane, Kim Kivens, Matt Rein, Wade Vaughn, Allen Malicsi, Don Eitel, Kurt Kwan
Designers: Joe Stanley - Set Design, Cana Potter - Costume Design, Wu Chen Khoo - Lighting Design, Forest Godfrey - Sound Design, Heidi Berg - Prop Design, Sandra Agustin - Choreography
Lisa Smith - Stage Manager

Randy Reyes (background) and Kurt Kwan in The Guthrie presentation of a Mu Performing Arts production of Yellow Face, by David Henry Hwang
Cast: Randy Reyes, Rose Tran, Erika Crane, Kim Kivens, Matt Rein, Wade Vaughn, Allen Malicsi, Don Eitel, Kurt Kwan
Designers: Joe Stanley - Set Design, Cana Potter - Costume Design, Wu Chen Khoo - Lighting Design, Forest Godfrey - Sound Design, Heidi Berg - Prop Design, Sandra Agustin - Choreography
Lisa Smith - Stage Manager

Randy Reyes in The Guthrie presentation of a Mu Performing Arts production of Yellow Face, by David Henry Hwang
Cast: Randy Reyes, Rose Tran, Erika Crane, Kim Kivens, Matt Rein, Wade Vaughn, Allen Malicsi, Don Eitel, Kurt Kwan
Designers: Joe Stanley - Set Design, Cana Potter - Costume Design, Wu Chen Khoo - Lighting Design, Forest Godfrey - Sound Design, Heidi Berg - Prop Design, Sandra Agustin - Choreography
Lisa Smith - Stage Manager

Matt Rein and Allen Malicsi in The Guthrie presentation of a Mu Performing Arts production of Yellow Face, by David Henry Hwang
Cast: Randy Reyes, Rose Tran, Erika Crane, Kim Kivens, Matt Rein, Wade Vaughn, Allen Malicsi, Don Eitel, Kurt Kwan
Designers: Joe Stanley - Set Design, Cana Potter - Costume Design, Wu Chen Khoo - Lighting Design, Forest Godfrey - Sound Design, Heidi Berg - Prop Design, Sandra Agustin - Choreography
Lisa Smith - Stage Manager

Matt Rein and Kim Kivens in The Guthrie presentation of a Mu Performing Arts production of Yellow Face, by David Henry Hwang
Cast: Randy Reyes, Rose Tran, Erika Crane, Kim Kivens, Matt Rein, Wade Vaughn, Allen Malicsi, Don Eitel, Kurt Kwan
Designers: Joe Stanley - Set Design, Cana Potter - Costume Design, Wu Chen Khoo - Lighting Design, Forest Godfrey - Sound Design, Heidi Berg - Prop Design, Sandra Agustin - Choreography
Lisa Smith - Stage Manager

Allen Malicsi, Don Eitel, Randy Reyes and Erika Crane in The Guthrie presentation of a Mu Performing Arts production of Yellow Face, by David Henry Hwang
Cast: Randy Reyes, Rose Tran, Erika Crane, Kim Kivens, Matt Rein, Wade Vaughn, Allen Malicsi, Don Eitel, Kurt Kwan
Designers: Joe Stanley - Set Design, Cana Potter - Costume Design, Wu Chen Khoo - Lighting Design, Forest Godfrey - Sound Design, Heidi Berg - Prop Design, Sandra Agustin - Choreography
Lisa Smith - Stage Manager

Randy Reyes (foreground), Allen Malicsi, Don Eitel, Erika Crane and Kim Kivens in The Guthrie presentation of a Mu Performing Arts production of Yellow Face, by David Henry Hwang
Cast: Randy Reyes, Rose Tran, Erika Crane, Kim Kivens, Matt Rein, Wade Vaughn, Allen Malicsi, Don Eitel, Kurt Kwan
Designers: Joe Stanley - Set Design, Cana Potter - Costume Design, Wu Chen Khoo - Lighting Design, Forest Godfrey - Sound Design, Heidi Berg - Prop Design, Sandra Agustin - Choreography
Lisa Smith - Stage Manager

Randy Reyes (background) and Allen Malicsi in The Guthrie presentation of a Mu Performing Arts production of Yellow Face, by David Henry Hwang
Cast: Randy Reyes, Rose Tran, Erika Crane, Kim Kivens, Matt Rein, Wade Vaughn, Allen Malicsi, Don Eitel, Kurt Kwan
Designers: Joe Stanley - Set Design, Cana Potter - Costume Design, Wu Chen Khoo - Lighting Design, Forest Godfrey - Sound Design, Heidi Berg - Prop Design, Sandra Agustin - Choreography
Lisa Smith - Stage Manager

Randy Reyes and Matt Rein (foreground), Allen Malicsi, Kurt Kwan, Rose Tran, Don Eitel and Erika Crane in The Guthrie presentation of a Mu Performing Arts production of Yellow Face, by David Henry Hwang
Cast: Randy Reyes, Rose Tran, Erika Crane, Kim Kivens, Matt Rein, Wade Vaughn, Allen Malicsi, Don Eitel, Kurt Kwan
Designers: Joe Stanley - Set Design, Cana Potter - Costume Design, Wu Chen Khoo - Lighting Design, Forest Godfrey - Sound Design, Heidi Berg - Prop Design, Sandra Agustin - Choreography
Lisa Smith - Stage Manager

Randy Reyes (background) and Matt Rein in The Guthrie presentation of a Mu Performing Arts production of Yellow Face, by David Henry Hwang
Cast: Randy Reyes, Rose Tran, Erika Crane, Kim Kivens, Matt Rein, Wade Vaughn, Allen Malicsi, Don Eitel, Kurt Kwan
Designers: Joe Stanley - Set Design, Cana Potter - Costume Design, Wu Chen Khoo - Lighting Design, Forest Godfrey - Sound Design, Heidi Berg - Prop Design, Sandra Agustin - Choreography
Lisa Smith - Stage Manager

Randy Reyes (background) and Erika Crane in The Guthrie presentation of a Mu Performing Arts production of Yellow Face, by David Henry Hwang
Cast: Randy Reyes, Rose Tran, Erika Crane, Kim Kivens, Matt Rein, Wade Vaughn, Allen Malicsi, Don Eitel, Kurt Kwan
Designers: Joe Stanley - Set Design, Cana Potter - Costume Design, Wu Chen Khoo - Lighting Design, Forest Godfrey - Sound Design, Heidi Berg - Prop Design, Sandra Agustin - Choreography
Lisa Smith - Stage Manager

Wade Vaughn in The Guthrie presentation of a Mu Performing Arts production of Yellow Face, by David Henry Hwang
Cast: Randy Reyes, Rose Tran, Erika Crane, Kim Kivens, Matt Rein, Wade Vaughn, Allen Malicsi, Don Eitel, Kurt Kwan
Designers: Joe Stanley - Set Design, Cana Potter - Costume Design, Wu Chen Khoo - Lighting Design, Forest Godfrey - Sound Design, Heidi Berg - Prop Design, Sandra Agustin - Choreography
Lisa Smith - Stage Manager

Randy Reyes in The Guthrie presentation of a Mu Performing Arts production of Yellow Face, by David Henry Hwang
Cast: Randy Reyes, Rose Tran, Erika Crane, Kim Kivens, Matt Rein, Wade Vaughn, Allen Malicsi, Don Eitel, Kurt Kwan
Designers: Joe Stanley - Set Design, Cana Potter - Costume Design, Wu Chen Khoo - Lighting Design, Forest Godfrey - Sound Design, Heidi Berg - Prop Design, Sandra Agustin - Choreography
Lisa Smith - Stage Manager

Randy Reyes and Matt Rein in The Guthrie presentation of a Mu Performing Arts production of Yellow Face, by David Henry Hwang
Cast: Randy Reyes, Rose Tran, Erika Crane, Kim Kivens, Matt Rein, Wade Vaughn, Allen Malicsi, Don Eitel, Kurt Kwan
Designers: Joe Stanley - Set Design, Cana Potter - Costume Design, Wu Chen Khoo - Lighting Design, Forest Godfrey - Sound Design, Heidi Berg - Prop Design, Sandra Agustin - Choreography
Lisa Smith - Stage Manager

Kurt Kwan and Randy Reyes in The Guthrie presentation of a Mu Performing Arts production of Yellow Face, by David Henry Hwang
Cast: Randy Reyes, Rose Tran, Erika Crane, Kim Kivens, Matt Rein, Wade Vaughn, Allen Malicsi, Don Eitel, Kurt Kwan
Designers: Joe Stanley - Set Design, Cana Potter - Costume Design, Wu Chen Khoo - Lighting Design, Forest Godfrey - Sound Design, Heidi Berg - Prop Design, Sandra Agustin - Choreography
Lisa Smith - Stage Manager

Randy Reyes, Rose Tran, Matt Rein, Kurt Kwan and Erika Crane in The Guthrie presentation of a Mu Performing Arts production of Yellow Face, by David Henry Hwang
Cast: Randy Reyes, Rose Tran, Erika Crane, Kim Kivens, Matt Rein, Wade Vaughn, Allen Malicsi, Don Eitel, Kurt Kwan
Designers: Joe Stanley - Set Design, Cana Potter - Costume Design, Wu Chen Khoo - Lighting Design, Forest Godfrey - Sound Design, Heidi Berg - Prop Design, Sandra Agustin - Choreography
Lisa Smith - Stage Manager

Matt Rein and Kim Kivens in The Guthrie presentation of a Mu Performing Arts production of Yellow Face, by David Henry Hwang
Cast: Randy Reyes, Rose Tran, Erika Crane, Kim Kivens, Matt Rein, Wade Vaughn, Allen Malicsi, Don Eitel, Kurt Kwan
Designers: Joe Stanley - Set Design, Cana Potter - Costume Design, Wu Chen Khoo - Lighting Design, Forest Godfrey - Sound Design, Heidi Berg - Prop Design, Sandra Agustin - Choreography
Lisa Smith - Stage Manager

THE CAST

DHH

Randy Reyes*

Marcus

Matt Rein

HYH, Ensemble

Kurt Kwan

Announcer, NWOAOC

Wade Vaughn

Leah, Ensemble

Rose Le Tran

Rodney Hatamiya, Ensemble

Allen Malicsi

Carla Chang, Ensemble

Erika Danielle Crane

Miles Newman, Ensemble

Kim Kivens

Cameron Mackintosh, Ensemble

Don Eitel

* denotes member of Actors Equity

PRODUCTION STAFF

Director

Rick Shiomi

Stage Manager

Lisa Smith*

Set Design

Joe Stanley

Lighting Design

Wu Chen Khoo

Costume Design

Cana Potter

Sound Design

Forest Godfrey

Props Design

Heidi Berg

* denotes member of Actors Equity