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From the Heart by Jude Narita
From The Heart, the play Narita will perform for Vashon Island audiences, is a a poignant, hear-warming, funny play that celebrates and tells the stories of different Asian and Asian American women, while sharing universal truths of all women. Narita performed From The Heart in the 2007 Asian American Theater Festival in New York City.
Narita was the first artist to perform at the Singapore Repertory Theatre's Inauguration Season. She also taught a writing/acting workshop to Singaporean women, culminating in an ensemble play of original material written and performed by Narita and the Singaporean women, The Tiger On The Right/The Dragon On The Left - II.
In Los Angeles, Narita has taught a free acting/writing workshop to encourage other Asian actresses to create their own original material, which resulted in the first The Tiger On The Right/The Dragon On The Left. The other actresses and Narita won Drama-Logue Awards for Performance and Narita also won a Drama-Logue Award as Producer.WALK THE MOUNTAIN had two separate theatrical runs in New York city in 2006.
All of Naritas plays have premiered in and had theatrical runs in Los Angeles and Santa Monica including the Los Angeles Theater Center, Highways Performance Space, Electric Lodge, Fountain Theater, 24th Street Theater, East West Players, McCadden Theater, Stages, Japanese American Theater and many more. Narita was named one of the 50 Asian Americans Wholl Be Making a Difference by Asian Week, The Voice of Asian America, and one of the Top 100 Asian Americans in the Nation by Trans-Pacific Magazine. Other awards include: the 2006 Western Arts Jerry Willis Award for Artistic Excellence and Extraordinary Leadership in the Performing Arts Community, the Integrity Award from the Los Angeles Womens Theatre Festival, a Los Angeles Fellowship, a National and two California Civil Liberties Grants, eight L.A. Cultural Affairs grants, and a Rockefeller from UCLA Asian American Studies.
Narita has toured her work around the United States for over 18 years. Narita and PASSION were also featured on the PBS Smithsonian episode Gender, which presented the work of only five U.S. artists, and were also chosen to represent American theater in the Mark Taper / USIA tour of Poland. This event is sponsored by Poets & Writers, Inc.
Performance will be followed by Q & A and wine reception.
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LocationBlue Heron Art Center
19704 Vashon Hwy. SW
Vashon Island, WA 98070
United States
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| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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