ATLANTIC PACIFIC THEATRE

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ATLANTIC PACIFIC THEATRE is an independent theater & creative storytelling company that crafts narratives for the theatre & cinema, public history programs, and community-engaged experiences for and with communities of color. Through formal experiments and partnership-driven projects, APT aims to enhance visibility, awareness, and understanding around POC histories and identities in local and transnational contexts. The company's underpinning values of cross cultural exchange and pluralism center our work on intimate polycultural experiences that reach across geographical and socially constructed borders.

ATLANTIC PACIFIC THEATRE PRESENTS: "Currency Exchange: A Virtual Event featuring Short Plays from Contemporary Playwrights of the Philippine Diaspora."

In this live global virtual event, join Atlantic Pacific Theatre engage & exchange with dramatists of the Philippine diaspora. Witness readings of short theatre works-in-progress by Conrad A. Panganiban (San Francisco, CA US), Kristine M. Reyes (New York, NY US), Sabrina Basilio (Nueva Vizcaya, The Philippines), and Jordan Shea (Sydney, Australia)

The event will be hosted and facilitated by APT's Claro de los Reyes and co-hosted by Conrad A. Panganiban.

Featuring with actors and directors from the Philippines and the Philippine diaspora including: Sienna Aczon, Tamara Lee Bailey, Laura Cabochan, Kathlyn Cabrera, Ron Capinding, Gwynnevere Cristobal, Claro de los Reyes, Joy Delos Santos, Alfredo Nicdao, Lydia Gaston, Jordan Shea, Precious Sipin, and Danielle Troiano.

EVENT DATE & TIME:

NOTE there is only one showtime. Please see what time the event starts in your region

US Time Dec 16 9pm US EST / Dec 16 6pm US PST

PHL Time Dec 17 10am PHL

AUS Time Dec 17 1pm AUS

*NOTE there is only one showtime. Please see what time the event starts in your region*

2021

APT's 2021 virtual presentation of Luis H. Francia’s “Black Henry” will be featured at the eKomunidad Asia Peformance Festival (see below for festival details). APT is ecstatic that our virtual theatre work in collaboration with NYU Sulo: Philippine Studies Initiative and NYU King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center will have another run. We are honored to be part of this international festival with amazing artists from Asia!
The shows runs virtually from Nov 11 - Nov 25th 2021.

Free and On Demand. WATCH HERE: http://kxchange.org
*Posted will also be an artist interview of playwright the Luis H. Francia and director Claro de los Reyes.

RECENT PROJECTS:

Join us to watch a cast of actors perform a public staged reading of "UNCREDITED (Part 1 of the Moving Fixtures Trilogy)" a play-in-development by Claro de los Reyes. "UNCREDITED" follows Ernesto and Manuel, two Filipino migrants in America, naviga… — Join us to watch a cast of actors perform a public staged reading of "UNCREDITED (Part 1 of the Moving Fixtures Trilogy)" a play-in-development by Claro de los Reyes.

"UNCREDITED" follows Ernesto and Manuel, two Filipino migrants in America, navigating divergent paths through the Filipino x American history during the decades surrounding the Great Depression, World War II, and post civil rights era United States.

CAST: Stacy Abarca, Laura Cabochan, Daniel Darwin, Claro de los Reyes, Meann Espinosa, Topper Fabregas

We are excited to announce that Atlantic Pacific Theatre is going to Mille Lacs Lake, Minnesota this summer for a Playmaking Project in collaboration with Project Mezinichigejig and Adrienne Benjamin !! We are excited to collaborate with the Ojibwe community in this area, and we are honored to create alongside it's youth and community members.

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"DO,WAGER: a performance diptych on the vestiges of the Philippine American War" (JUNE 2019)

Part 1: Devised by the Atlantic Pacific Theatre ensemble and directed by Brisa Areli Muñoz.

Part 2: Written by Claro de los Reyes and directed by Artem Yatsunov & Marion Elaine Lopez

Atlantic Pacific Theatre’s performance diptych play format juxtaposes two distinct theatre experiences in a single presentation. In the case of DO,WAGER, Part 1 is a devised participatory history play utilizing educational theatre conventions while Part 2 is an experimental one act play. APT’s performance diptych plays aim to band together theatre artists, public artists, and educators working to create an experience that situates itself between: history-based education, participatory theatre, and the experimental theatre tradition. *The play premiered in 2018 as part of Downtown Art's Performance | Social Justice Artist in Residence program (May 2018).

CREATIVE TEAM:

Playwright: Claro de los Reyes

Devised Theatre Artists: Claro de los Reyes, Ben Weber, and Brisa Areli Muñoz.

Director: Brisa Areli Muñoz; Director: Artem Yatsunov & Associate Director: Marion Lopez

CAST: Laura Cabochan, Claro de los Reyes*, Teisha M. Duncan, Angela De Marie, Precious Sipin, Robert Thaxton-Stevenson, Ashley C. Turner*, Ben Weber.

*These Actors are appearing courtesy of Actors' Equity Association. *This production is an Equity approved Showcase

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Friday March 16, 2018; 8pm

A workshop production of "A&R,305"

Location: Brooklyn Arts Exchange 421 5th Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11215

a short play by Claro de los Reyes | directed by Tara Elliott

produced as part of: Brooklyn Arts Exchange's Upstart Program 2018

Saturday April 7, 2018; 1-4pm

Afro-Asian Healing Practices: A participatory workshop on the practicing and reclamation of healing traditions from the African diaspora and the Asian Pacific Islander diaspora.

Facilitators Shamilia McBean and Jana Lynne Umipig will welcome participants to an interactive workshop that shares traditions rooted in African diaspora and Asian Pacific Islander diaspora healing practices. Facilitators will discuss intersections across the traditions as well as motivations to sustain and extend these practices in the present day.

FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

LOCATION: Kelly Street Garden, Bronx, NY

924 Kelly St. Bronx NY 10459
TIME: 1-4pm

Saturday April 14, 2018; 3-5pm

Afro-Asian Storytime x "Radical Playdate"

Location: Interference Archive 314 7th Street Brooklyn, NY 11215

At this special meeting of Interference Archive's "Radical Playdate", special guests from Callaloo: Cultural Literacy for Kids and Sari-Sari Storybooks will read selections from Afro-Asian storybooks. There will be toys, craft tables, and mats to engage kids and adults are free and welcome to browse the radical materials present at the Interference Archive. *Authors Marjuan Canady (Callaloo) and Christina Newhard (Sari-Sari Storybooks) will be present.

Bring a favorite Afro-Asian book to share, bring a snack, or just bring yourselves! There will also be a Q&A with the book’s authors.
Recommended ages: 8 and under
Suggested donation: $5 (but no one will be turned away!)

Presented by Atlantic Pacific Theatre
in collaboration with Callaloo and Sari-Sari Storybooks.

DONATE HERE - https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/atlantic-pacific-theatre

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Please consider supporting APT continue producing our narrative projects and innovative & community centered programming in 2024.

DONATE HERE - https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/atlantic-pacific-theatre

2023

Join us on Thurs 11/2 for APT Currency Exchange alum Jordan Shea (Australia) for an invited and intimate reading of his play "Malacañang Made Us" FREE

APT is honored to offer dramatists from the Philippine diaspora platform to share their work in NYC.

11/2 - 7:30pm Invited Reading of "Malacañang Made Us" by Jordan Shea (Australia) - RSVP https://forms.gle/Luth3kr7fU2NciU59

Revisit & Reengage - Staged Readings of Political Plays from the Philippines.

This month we spotlight “Buwan at Baril sa Eb Major / Moon and Gun in Eb Major”by Chris Millado (1985)

Join us on Tues Oct 24th at 6:30pm EST. | FREE and Open to the Public

Register via QR code or find the Link in Bio.- https://forms.gle/HD89z7iXTRy32RDL9

Produced by Atlantic Pacific Theatre. Presented and Hosted by Sulo: Philippine Studies Initiative NYU, NYU KJCC and Sponsored by FANHS Metro New York

“SPUR” a short film co-produced by APT and written and directed by Claro de los Reyes is premiering in the San Diego Filipino FIlm Festival 2023 on Oct 2023. #sdfff2023 #sdfilipinofilmfest #sdfff #sdfilipinocinema

“Dent” a short film co-directed by Paul Justin Encinas and Claro de los Reyes and created as part of the AA FIlm Lab’s 72 Hour Shoot Out 2023 competition won Top Ten honors.

The film screened as part of the Film Lab’s program featured in the 46th annual Asian American International Film Festival 2023 in New York City.

2022

LINK TO “CURRENCY EXCHANGE” LIVE RECORDING