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Asian Treasure s in the UCSB LIBR ARY ARCHIVES
Frank Chin’s papers are only one
of the many treasures in the
Asian Pacific American collections
in the UCSB Library’s California
Ethnic and Multicultural (CEMA)
Archives.
Dan Kuramoto and Philip Kan
Gotanda in the play In the
Dominion of Night from the
Asian American Theater Company
Archives at Special Collections,
Davidson Library, UCSB.
Papers and other materials from
the Asian American Theater
Company (AATC) in San
Francisco were donated to the
CEMA archives in 1991. AATC is
one of only three Asian American
theaters in the United States.
Founded in 1973 by the Chinese
American writer and playwright
Frank Chin and others, it is a
professional theater dedicated to
Eye of the Coconut from the Asian American Theater Company
Archives at Special Collections, Davidson Library, UCSB.
producing plays by and about Asian Americans. It is the oldest, full-season ethnic theater in Northern
California. Its high-quality productions promote inter-ethnic understanding and provide positive role
models for the Asian American community as well as the community at large.
The Kearny Street Workshop archives are an important part of 20th
century Asian American history. The nonprofit agency Kearny Street
Workshop (KSW) is the oldest multidisciplinary Asian American arts
organization in the United States. Established in 1972 as a collective
of artists in San Francisco’s Chinatown/Manila town neighborhood,
KSW is now a non-profit agency serving many Asian/Pacific American
communities from its office in San Francisco. KSW is an essential
national resource for Asian American artists. Its archives were donated
to the UCSB Library’s CEMA archives in 1999.
Elizabeth Wong is an award-winning Chinese-American playwright
and a television screenwriter specializing in Asian American issues.
Her papers were donated to the UCSB Library’s California Ethnic and
Multicultural Archives in 1998.
Wong’s plays include the
Playwright’s Forum Awardwinning
play “Letters to a
San Francisco home of Kearney Street Workshop until
1977, from the Kearny Street Workshop Archives at Special
Collections, Davidson Library, UCSB.
Student Revolutionary” (1991). Wong also was a staff writer for the ABC sitcom “All-American Girl,”
the first network series to feature an Asian-American woman as its central character. Her plays have
been published by Dramatic Publishing Company, and are included in many anthologies. During the
1980’s she worked as a television field producer and news reporter.
In the early 1990’s, Wong worked as a writer for Walt Disney Studios and was also a dramaturge at
the Actors Theater of Louisville, a playwriting teacher at David Hwang Playwriting Institute and an
op-ed columnist for the Los Angeles Times, commenting on social issues and cultural experiences.
For a guide to the UCSB Special Collections California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives (CEMA), visit
www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/collections/cema/listguides.html
Elizabeth Wong, from the Elizabeth
Wong Papers Special Collections,
Davidson Library, UCSB.
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