{"id":30720,"date":"2013-08-13T23:07:34","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T23:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=30720"},"modified":"2015-10-26T00:07:28","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T00:07:28","slug":"alien-citizen-the-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=30720","title":{"rendered":"Alien Citizen, The Play"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alien Citizen, The Play<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

World Premier at the Asylum Lab<\/strong>
\n1078 Lillian Way
\nHollywood, California 90038
\nFridays & Saturdays @ 20:00 PDT (Local Time)
\nPreview May 3, 2013, Opens May 4 – June 1<\/p>\n

Written and performed by Elizabeth Liang<\/strong>
\nDirected by Sofie Calderon<\/strong>
\nAssociate Produced by Richard Lee, Karen Smith, <\/strong>and Wendy Belcher<\/strong>
\nCo-produced by Leila Ciszewski<\/strong>
\nStage Managed by Michelle Hilyard<\/strong>
\nHouse Managed by Charls Sedgwick Hall<\/strong> and Kate Huffman<\/strong>
\nLighting & Projection Design by Matt Richter<\/strong>
\nSound Design by Dennis Yen<\/strong>
\nGraphic and Program Design by Gene Michael Barrera<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Presented by HapaLis Productions in association with <\/em>Multiracial Americans of Southern California<\/em><\/a> (MASC)<\/em><\/p>\n

Who are you when you\u2019re from everywhere and nowhere?<\/strong> Alien Citizen<\/em> is a funny and poignant one-woman show about growing up as a dual citizen of mixed heritage in Central America, North Africa, the Middle East, and New England.<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Liang, like President Obama, is a Third Culture Kid<\/a> or a TCK. Third Culture Kids are the children of international business people, global educators, diplomats, missionaries, and the military — anyone whose family has relocated overseas because of a job placement. Liang weaves humorous stories about growing up as an Alien Citizen<\/em> abroad with American commercial jingles providing her soundtrack through language confusion, first love, culture shock, Clark Gable, and sandstorms\u2026<\/p>\n

Our protagonist deals with the decisions every global nomad has to make repeatedly: to adapt or to simply cope; to build a bridge or to just tolerate. From being a Guatemalan-American teen in North Africa to attending a women\u2019s college in the USA, Alien Citizen<\/em> reflects her experience that neither one was necessarily easier than the other. She realizes that girls across the world are growing into womanhood in environments that can be hostile to females (including the USA). How does a young girl cope as a border\/culture\/language\/religion straddler in country after country that feels “other” to her when she is the \u201cother?\u201d Where is the line between respecting others and betraying yourself?<\/p>\n

Humor is a great survival mechanism! And friends make all the difference.<\/p>\n

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