past production

BIG QUEER FILIPINO KARAOKE NIGHT!

 

Photo by Rae MacEachern-Eastwood. Taken at the 2018 Vancouver Fringe Festival in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

 

Written and Performed:
Davey Samuel Calderon

Directed:
Chris Lam

Lighting Design and Stage Manager:
Vee Pho

Costume and Prop Design:
Rose Butch

Video Artist:
Steven Roste

Dramaturg:
Dominique Wakeland

Voice Coaching:
Oliver O’Dea

Cultural Consultant:
Anjela Magpantay

Big Queer Filipino Karaoke Night! is a Clown-Drag-Karaoke Extravaganza, serving up Filipino-Canadian identity shenanigans, queer insights, family epiphanies, and soul gratifying karaoke!

Inspired by Davey Calderon’s visit to his family’s ancestral land, the Philippines, this show is an interactive celebration of the intersections found in oneself.

DEVELOPMENT:

Created with the financial and/or in-kind support of:

  • BC Arts Council

  • Neworld Theatre

  • New(to)Town Collective

  • Jenn Mickey and XYYVR (which was a gay bar which used to operate in Vancouver, BC, Canada)

Developed through residencies and workshops presentations with:

  • Playwrights Theatre Centre

  • Upintheair Theatre

  • Neworld Theatre

PRODUCTION HISTORY:

Big Queer Filipino Karaoke Night! opened at:

  • Vancouver Fringe Festival (2018)
    XYYVR - Vancouver, BC, Canada