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Birth of A nAsian

Consolidated Works
Seattle, WA

Birth of A nAsian is Trip hop Comedy Theater with an Asian slant. In the style of Sarah Jones and John Leguizamo, Rigg infuses contemporary politicomic monologues and fierce spoken word, all delivered over the pulse of electronic violin and urban beats.

"Provocative Comedy with a poetry slam hip-hop edge"
--LA Times

In Birth of a nAsian, Kate takes on a wild series of characters exploring identity and alienation across an Amerasian palette. The transitions between characters include an original trip hop soundtrack played live on electronic violin, live sampling, and beats, by Lyris Hung, as well as several in your face spoken word pieces that bring street sensibility to the issues facing Asian Americans searching for their urban voice.

See characters like a token Asian newscaster with non ethnic sounding name having a breakdown, a hundred year old Trinidadian mestiza, and a china-latina with an axe to grind at the UI office.

Experience Lyris Hung, the best damn electronic violinist in the city (trained since she was three, and who's kicked it with the likes of Bono, Bryan Adams, Absolut ensemble and many others).

KATE RIGG
Originally from Canada and Australia, but a New Yorker at heart, Kate Rigg's comedy career began the second she graduated with a degree in acting from New York's prestigious Juilliard school. A notorious culture and subculture vulture, the allure of the club scene in New York drew her to Caroline's Comedy Club where she quickly caught the attention of the New Talent Booker who slotted her for a series of appearances and features showcasing her particular brand of character based comedy, edgy socio-political commentary, Asian American slanted jokes, and in your face dirty girl talk.

Within her first two years on the scene, she was invited to the Montreal Just for Laughs Festival, the Toyota Comedy Festival, The Marshalls Women in Comedy Festival, and developed her first comedy and music revue for NBC's PSNBC in New York, and the HBO Time Warner workspace in Los Angeles. This show Kate's Chink-O-Rama: featuring the chinkorama dancers is a New York city favorite at Joe's Pub at the Public Theater, and has toured extensively to comedy festivals, colleges and special events around North America. Her follow up Birth of a nAsian, a collection of characters, stand up and trip hop spoken word, was part of the Mark Taper Forum's Summerfest, was developed at La Mama ETC in New York, MACLA in San Jose, and New World Theater in Massachusetts to ready it for a 2006 premiere.

Kate was a 2004 New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) fellow as well as a 2005 NEA grant recipient to develop new work. She has been awarded grants and prizes by The Toronto Arts Council, The Canada Council, The Australia Council for the Arts, The Norma Epstein Foundation, The Juilliard School Interarts Program, and the University of Melbourne.

Lyris Hung
Former Juilliard virtuoso turned rocker Lyris Hung has stud

Kid Friendly: No

Dog Friendly: No

Non-Smoking: No

Wheelchair Accessible: No

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