Featured: Asian American Drama

In honor of Asian Awareness month, the Library puts the spotlight on an online collection of Asian American plays:

Asian American Drama includes full scripts of plays by well-known dramatists such as Philip Kan Gotanda, Elizabeth Wong, Jeannie Barroga, and Wakako Yamaguchi, and emerging playwrights, including Prince Gomolvilas, Uma Parameswaran, and Bina Sharif. The collection represents various ethnicities within the Asian American community, including writers of Japanese, Filipino, Vietnamese, Chinese, Hawaiian, Indian, Thai, Korean, Persian, and Malaysian background. It also includes information on playwrights, casts, credits, and production information, playbills, and other resources.

You can find and search Asian American Drama via the Library's Databases A-Z list, or can find individual plays in the Library catalog, listed by author and title. For example, see the catalog entry for Philip Kan Gotanda’s play, Ballad of Yachiyo and click through to the play script.

For information on Wellesley College events for Asian Awareness Month, click here.