{"id":31882,"date":"2013-06-23T00:31:30","date_gmt":"2013-06-23T00:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=31882"},"modified":"2013-06-23T00:31:30","modified_gmt":"2013-06-23T00:31:30","slug":"what%e2%80%99s-it-like-to-%e2%80%9ccome-out%e2%80%9d-as-a-third-culture-kid-on-stage-elizabeth-liang-tells-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=31882","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s it like to \u201ccome out\u201d as a Third Culture Kid on stage? Elizabeth Liang tells all!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/thedisplacednation.com\/2013\/06\/20\/whats-it-like-to-come-out-as-a-third-culture-kid-on-stage-elizabeth-liang-tells-all\/\" target=\"_blank\">What\u2019s it like to \u201ccome out\u201d as a Third Culture Kid on stage? Elizabeth Liang tells all!<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thedisplacednation.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Displaced Nation: A home for international creatives<\/a><br \/>\n2013-06-20<\/p>\n<p>The Displaced Nation Team<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/thedisplacednation.com\/2013\/05\/01\/who-is-it-that-can-tell-me-who-i-am-third-culture-kid-drama\/\" target=\"_blank\">As reported here last month<\/a>, Elizabeth Liang spent the month of May performing, at a venue in Los Angeles, a one-woman show about being a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Third_culture_kid\" target=\"_blank\">Third Culture Kid<\/a>, or TCK. As some readers may recall, Liang is a self-described Guatemalan-American business brat of Chinese-Spanish-Irish-French-German-English descent. She was brought up by peripatetic parents in Central America, North Africa, the Middle East, and Connecticut. Many of us were curious about not only how she could pack all of that personal history into a solo stage performance, but also how the (mostly American) audiences would respond. Today is the day we get to find out. Take it away, Elizabeth!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014ML Awanohara<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I had no idea what to expect from audiences when I opened my solo show, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=30720\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Alien Citizen<\/em><\/a>, in Hollywood, California, on May 3rd (it closed June 1st).<\/p>\n<p>Since the show is about my upbringing as a dual citizen of mixed heritage in six countries, I assumed it would appeal mainly to Adult Third Culture Kids (ATCKs) and people of mixed heritage\u2014the people I wrote it for, since we rarely see our stories portrayed on stage or screen.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted the show to be funny, but wasn\u2019t sure if the humor would translate.<\/p>\n<p>And I wanted people to be moved by the story&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/thedisplacednation.com\/2013\/06\/20\/whats-it-like-to-come-out-as-a-third-culture-kid-on-stage-elizabeth-liang-tells-all\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s it like to \u201ccome out\u201d as a Third Culture Kid on stage? Elizabeth Liang tells all! The Displaced Nation: A home for international creatives 2013-06-20 The Displaced Nation Team As reported here last month, Elizabeth Liang spent the month of May performing, at a venue in Los Angeles, a one-woman show about being a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,1196,8,20],"tags":[12423,15007,15006,15005],"class_list":["post-31882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-elizabeth-liang","tag-ml-awanohara","tag-the-displaced-nation","tag-the-displaced-nation-a-home-for-international-creatives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}