How can leadership foster brave creativity rather than starve it? What does it look like to have more East Asian representation in theatre?

Jasmine Jiang is here to talk about it all.

Jasmine Jiang is the managing director of Pig Iron Theatre and School. Jasmine talks all about arts administration and producing great theatre, East Asian representation in the arts, and all about pride and coming out.

CONTENT WARNINGS

Discussion of effects of Model minority/Anti-Asian racism

Discussion of effects of Gender Discrimination

Discussion of former UArts/Pig Iron Partnership

Pig Iron Theatre Company and School have been drastically impacted by the abrupt closure of UArts in Philadelphia. To support their emergency bridge fund, click here.

This program is produced in south west philadelphia, in the unceded neighborhood of the black bottom community and on the ancestral land of the Lenape nation, who remain here in the era of the fourth crow and fight for official recognition by the commonwealth of Pennsylvania to this day. You can find out more about the Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania and how you can support the revitalization of their culture by going to https://lenape-nation.org.

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