Masterclass with playwright and screenwriter Eugenie Chan

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Join us for an afternoon of conversation and reflection with playwright and screenwriter Eugenie Chan. Get the inside scoop on the making of her film The Truer History of the Chan family, watch some sneak-peek clips, and take away inspiring prompts for exercises you can use in your own creative practice! Eugenie combines myth, family lore, imagined histories (as well as tales told by fellow Asians), and humor to tell stories that capture the epic sweep of Chinese Americans in the American West.

About Eugenie Chan

Eugenie Chan is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter whose work has been produced or developed across the United States, including at the Asian American Theater Company, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Centenary Stage, Crowded Fire, Cutting Ball, East West Players, Group Theater, Houston Grand Opera: HGOco, Magic Theatre, Ma-Yi, Northwest Asian American Theatre, Pan Asian Rep, Perishable, Playwrights Horizons, the Public, San Francisco Mime Troupe, and Thick Description.

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​She teaches at San José State University's Film and Theater Department and the University of San Francisco's Performing Arts & Social Justice Department, is playwright emerita at Cutting Ball Theater, and an alumna of the Crowded Fire R & D Lab, New Dramatists, and the Playwrights Foundation.

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