Both Equity (AEA SPT6 contract) and non-Equity (paid roles) for a cast of 4 actors. Directed by Katie Bradley, and performed at Mixed Blood Theatre, Anna Ouyang Moench’s funny feminist thriller follows four members of a Korean Christian girls’ youth group during a mission trip to Bangkok. While there, they discover that their revered pastor has hidden a camera in their hotel bathroom.
If you’re a local Asian American, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander actor, we’d love to consider you for our 2021/22 season. We’re looking for both AEA and non-union actors who live in the Twin Cities for our mainstage productions, readings, workshops, corporate events, and family and educational programs. We welcome AANHPI actors of all ages, genders, backgrounds, and abilities. (For AEA actors: Theater Mu is on an SPT6 contract for our mainstage productions.) If you have questions, please email info@theatermu.org.
Read MoreTheater Mu, along with our shared community, is outraged, saddened, and emboldened by the senseless murder of members of the Sikh community in Indianapolis. As anti-Asian violence continues across the United States, fueled by unchecked white supremacy and over-abundance of firearms, our resolve to uplift and empower the Asian community has never been stronger.
Read MoreWe are once again heartbroken and outraged at the relentless police violence that continues to occur against our Black communities in the Twin Cities. We are horrified by the murder of 20-year-old Daunte Wright, and we stand with his family and loved ones in their demand for empathy and justice.
Read MoreIn re-organizing our office to accommodate COVID precautions and a growing staff, we've sifted through our spaces and would like to pass off a lot of the things we've collected throughout the years.
Read MoreSusan Lieu is a Vietnamese-American activist playwright and performer who tells stories that refuse to be forgotten. With a vision for individual and community healing—made possible through the interplay of comedy and drama—her work delves deeply into the lived realities of body insecurity, grieving, and trauma.
Read MoreSusan Soon He Stanton is a playwright, television writer, and screenwriter based between New York and London, from ‘Aiea, Hawai‘i. Susan is a producer/writer for HBO’s Succession, for which she has won a WGA and Peabody Award. Upcoming television work includes HBO/Sister Picture’s THE BABY, Amazon’s Modern Love, Amazon/Annapurna’s Dead Ringers, Hulu/Element Pictures/BBC’s Conversation with Friends adapted from the novel by Sally Rooney, as well as several projects in development.
Read MoreTheater Mu will present Today Is My Birthday by Emmy-Award winner Susan Soon He Stanton, a quirky comedy about feeling lonely in the age of connection. The fully realized mainstage production will be directed by Theater Mu’s Artistic Director Lily Tung Crystal and is a showcase of innovation, as it will be designed and produced with multiple cameras specifically for the virtual stage.
Read MoreBoth Equity (AEA SPT6 contract) and non-Equity (paid roles) for a cast of 6 adult actors. Directed by Theater Mu’s Artistic Director, Lily Tung Crystal, and fully produced in Mu’s virtual theater, Susan Soon He Stanton’s quirky comedy highlights life with a thousand friends on Facebook and no one to have dinner with on Saturday night.
China Doll, a sensual fantasia written by award-winning playwright Elizabeth Wong and performed by Monica Ho, tells the story of a Chinatown girl who dreams about making it big in Hollywood. In this 35-minute performance, Anna May is an established movie star of numerous films. Hoping for what might be a career-defining role, she excitedly meets with movie mogul Samuel Goldwyn, sure he'll offer her the role of a lifetime. He makes an offer, but it's not what she expected.
Read MoreSHINE A LIGHT helps us lift up the theater-makers behind the scenes, providing a space to explore the themes that impact them and their work.
Read MoreAs if time doesn't already feel warped during the pandemic, we're gathering a group of artists and putting their sense of time to the ultimate test during Mu's TwentyPho Hour PlayFest. Thirty artists have only 24 hours to write, rehearse, and present six 10-minute plays created for the virtual environment. Watch our Mu-tini Hour on Friday at 7:00pm CDT, where the playwrights get their randomized prompts, actors, and directors. Then, after a day of furious writing and intense rehearsals, all the plays go live on Saturday at 7:00pm CDT.
Read MoreThe only way forward is together, and thanks to the support of community members both in the Twin Cities and across the country, Theater Mu is ready for its next chapter. Join us for a virtual cabaret fundraiser on Saturday, August 22, 2020 to celebrate the resiliency of the arts and give your support to Mu as we continue our mission to promote arts, equity, and justice.
Read MoreWe are asking you to help us achieve our goals and ensure that Theater Mu can continue promoting arts, equity, and justice through the lens of Asian American theater while standing in solidarity with all underrepresented voices.
Read MoreTheater Mu is pleased to announce Lao American poet, author, playwright, and installation artist Saymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay has received a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation through the National Playwright Residency Program (NPRP).
Read MoreWith a heavy heart, we at Theater Mu, along with our partners at the Jungle Theater, announce the cancellation of our upcoming co-production of Lauren Yee's CAMBODIAN ROCK BAND, originally set to run June 24 - August 2, 2020. Though the show will not be featured in either of our 2020/2021 seasons, we will continue pursuing a partnership to produce it in the future.
Read MoreJoin Theater Mu and Minnesota Opera for a discussion about the presentation of traditional operatic repertoire and the commissioning of new work, which hopes to expand representation and audience engagement through the resetting and rewriting operas in order to change racist narratives and increase Asian representation within the field of opera.
Read MoreMixed Blood Theatre presents the world premiere of INTERSTATE, a Queer Asian American pop-rock musical about two trans people at different stages of their journeys, navigating love, family, masculinity, and finding community in the era of social media.
Read MoreIn partnership with Magers & Quinn Booksellers, we have sourced books recommended by Jihae Park, Annie Jin Wang, and Francesca and Isabella Dawis. These are books that pair well the themes of peerless, or books that we think you will enjoy on its own.
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The writing team of Tidtaya Sinutoke (music) and Isabella Dawis (book & lyrics) have won the 14th Annual Weston-Ghostlight New Musical Award for their new musical, HALF THE SKY. HALF THE SKY was an inaugural 2019 First Draft Commission by the 5th Avenue Theatre, with additional development at Theater Mu's New Eyes Festival and Theater Latté Da's NEXT Festival.
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