Black Gay Men of the South

E. Patrick Johnson's project Pouring Tea has evolved from an academic performance for college and university classes into an Off Broadway show produced by the Signature Theatre. See how Patrick is able to teach and perform a series of oral testimonies about black gay male identity.

Native American Performance Inversions

Native American performance crosses a variety of styles and genres.

Powwow events help various native communities to connect and share culture, politics, or history.
Contemporary performance expresses fusions of western and native art aesthetics.
Native playwrights interpret hybrid identities.
Individual performers like this Hoop dancer demonstrate cultural identity and performance virtuosity.

Henry David Hwang

This award winning, prolific artist is now in residence at the Signature Theatre where he is re-staging older works and creating new ones.

Impersonating Others

Anna Deveare Smith and Sara Jones have made careers of impersonating real life human beings. By performing characters outside of their own race and/or gender categories, they make audiences rethink assumptions about who can play what.

Culture Clash

Meet Culture Clash.

This collective of performance artists creates theatre by devising around the experiences of Latino people in the United States. They use comedic humor to express Latino identity. Another "hybrid" Latino artist you may want to look into is Guillermo Gomez Pena.

Asian American Spoken Word

Comment and add information about the two spoken word artists.
Jason Chu
and
Alvin Lau