2019 Princess Grace Award Winners Announced
The Princess Grace Foundation-USA (PGF-USA) is proud to have one of its most illustrious Award winners, Leslie Odom Jr., announce the winners of the 2019 Princess Grace Awards.
Pittsburgh Public Theater Presents ‘Pride And Prejudice’
Director Desdemona Chiang stops by to talk about the Pittsburgh Public Theater presentation of “Pride and Prejudice.”
Biology major Chiang, director of ‘Smart People’ at Long Wharf, won over by arts
Director of ‘Smart People’ reflects on career, art’s value By E. Kyle Minor It would appear that, given the name of one of Shakespeare’s most recognizable female characters, director Desdemona Chiang was predestined for a [...]
Civic Dialogue Panel – Old Plays, New Faces: Representation in Classic Theater at California Shakespeare Theater in Berkeley
Co-hosted by UC Berkeley's Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, this dialogue will explore the ways in which traditional casting can act as a barrier to specific communities and the ways in which performing arts organizations are creating more inclusive practices to engage or more diverse range of performing artists.
Offscript: What’s in a Name? With Desdemona Chiang
On this week’s podcast, the guest is Desdemona Chiang, who discusses setting ‘The Winter’s Tale’ in China and why her mother named her after the tragic ‘Othello’ heroine.
SHE’S THE BOSS
The insatiable curiosity of theatre director Desdemona Chiang.
Desdemona Chiang: 2016 Creative Promise Prize in Theatre
Desdemona Chiang: The Lost Generation “A good friend of mine and I like to say—kind of jokingly, but kind of not—that there is a lost generation of Asian American artists between the ages of 30 [...]
2016 Vilcek Prizes in Biomedical Science and Theatre
Immigrant Theatre Artists Lauded With 2016 Vilcek Prizes. Blanka Zizka, Sarah Benson, Desdemona Chiang, and Yi Zhao are this year’s honorees.