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Fashion Portrait

SCENES FROM INTERIOR CHINATOWN

Museum of Chinese in America

April, 2025

written by Charles Yu

conceived & directed by Dennis Yueh-Yeh Li


Andre Chan as WILLIS WU | Pascal Phoa as OLDER BROTHER | Malachi Beasely as MILES TURNER| Olivia De Jager as SARAH GREEN | Ron Brice as JUDGE/DIRECTOR| Samantha Potrykus as PROSECUTOR/PA | Andy Law as NARRATOR

Willis Wu doesn’t perceive himself as the protagonist in his own life: he’s merely Generic Asian Man. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son, but always he is relegated to a prop. Yet every day, he leaves his tiny room in a Chinatown SRO and enters the Golden Palace restaurant, where Black and White, a procedural cop show, is in perpetual production. He’s a bit player here, too, but he dreams of being Kung Fu Guy—the most respected role that anyone who looks like him can attain. Or is it?


A dynamic performance brings selected acts from Interior Chinatown to life. Featuring an ensemble of actors, the program transforms MOCA’s exhibitions into a living stage, offering an immersive theatrical experience.

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© 2024 by DENNIS YUEH-YEH LI

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