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October 22, 2009
The Music of Robert Lee and Leon Ko at Rattlesticks Playwrights' Musical 'n Mix
(L-R) Clarke Thorell,
BD Wong, Wayne Barker, Robert Lee, Anastasia Barzee, Orville Mendoza, Cindy Cheung and Dave Phillips © Lia Chang
BD Wong, Anastasia Barzee, Clarke Thorell, Cindy Cheung, and Orville
Mendoza performed a benefit mini-concert featuring songs by the Asian-American musical writing team of Robert Lee (lyricist)
and Leon Ko (composer) (Journey To The West and Heading East), in the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater’s Musical Mix
‘n Mingle on October 19, at St. John’s in the Village. With musical direction by Wayne Barker on piano and Dave
Phillips on bass.
Lia and BD
Click here for photo coverage of the night.
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| Andre De Shields in Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: From Douglass to Deliverance © Lia Chang |
Click here for my interview with Andre.
Click here for MINE EYES production photos.
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Lia Chang is an
actor, performance and fine art botanical photographer and an award-winning multimedia journalist. Lia’s portraits and
performance photos have appeared in Vanity Fair, Gourmet, German Elle, Women’s Wear Daily, The Paris Review, VIBE, TV
Guide, Daily Variety, Interior Design, American Theatre, Life & Style, OUT, New York Magazine, InStyle, Timeout.com, Villagevoice.com,
Playbill.com, Theatermania.com, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, USA Today, The Boston Globe, New York Times and
Washington Post. A former syndicated
arts and entertainment columnist for KYODO News, Lia is the New York Bureau Chief for AsianConnections.com. She writes about
culture, style and Asian American issues for a variety of publications and her Backstage Pass with Lia Chang blog. As a photographer and videographer, Lia is frequently tapped to collaborate with artists, organizations
and companies in establishing their documentary photo archive. She has been documenting her colleagues and contemporaries
in the arts, fashion and journalism since making her stage debut as Liat in the National Tour of South Pacific, with Robert
Goulet and Barbara Eden.
 LaMaMa e.t.c. presents Alfred Preisser and Randy Weiner’s CALIGULA MAXIMUS, a project with Hammerstein
& Weiner, LLC, Christopher McElroen, Alfred Preisser and Kingsize, USA, at La MaMa’s Ellen Stewart Theatre,
March 12-April 10. Click here to read about the show. Join CALIGULA MAXIMUS on Facebook and Twitter.
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