N/A

N/A is a thirty-minute performance piece first produced at Asian Arts Initiative in Philadelphia and later remounted, along with Sun Mee Chomet’s How to Be a Korean Woman, as part of The Origin(s) Project: Memoirs in Motion at Dreamland Arts in Saint Paul.  It was directed by and developed in collaboration with Zaraawar Mistry.  In N/A Leo combines personal storytelling with speculative myth-making, attempting to reconcile her present body and health with an unknown past.  What do you do when you don’t know your history?  You make it up, of course.

To watch an excerpt from N/A, click here.

To watch a preview video with Katie and Sun Mee, click here.

PRESS COVERAGE OF THE ORIGIN(S) PROJECT:

From TC Daily Planet:“At Dreamland Arts, Katie Hae Leo and Sun Mee Chomet tell personal stories of being Korean adoptees”

From Star Tribune: “Theatre artists find depth in search for families”

From Minnesota Public Radio’s “State of the Arts” blog: “The Origin(s) Project Explores Human Longing for Connection”

The Origin(s) Project was named one of the ten best shows of 2012 in the Star Tribune

REVIEWS OF N/A:

“Tall and angular, poised and powerful, it takes us some time to fully comprehend the depth of Leo’s disappointment…N/A builds to a quiet yet forceful climax.  Wonderful.”   –John Olive,
howwastheshow.com

“Leo’s half-hour playlet is packed like a poem…In ‘N/A’ Leo’s backstrokes and breaststrokes suggest the water in which we are all immersed, and she carries us along in her lyrical wake.”  –Rohan Preston, Star Tribune

For more information on Dreamland Arts, visit: http://www.dreamlandarts.com/  The first production of The Origin(s) Project: Memoirs in Motion was funded, in part, by Metropolitan Regional Arts Council (MRAC), with appropriations from the Minnesota State Legislature.

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