American playwright
Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn
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Born
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1949-05-29
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May 29, 1949
(age 75)
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Nationality
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Occupations
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- Playwright
- writer
- poet
- multimedia performance artist
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Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn
(born May 29, 1949) is an American playwright, writer, poet, and multimedia performance artist.
Biography
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Hagedorn is an of mixed descent. She was born in
Manila
to a mother of Scots-Irish, French, and Filipino descent and a father of Filipino, Spanish, and Chinese heritage.
[1]
Moving to
San Francisco
in 1963, Hagedorn received her education at the
American Conservatory Theater
training program. To further pursue
playwriting
and music, she moved to
New York City
in 1978.
[2]
In 1978,
Joseph Papp
produced Hagedorn's first play
Mango Tango
.
[3]
Hagedorn's other productions include
Tenement Lover
,
Holy Food
, and
Teenytown
.
[4]
Her mixed media style often incorporates song,
poetry
, images, and spoken dialogue. From 1975 until 1985, she was the leader of a poet's band?The West Coast Gangster Choir (in SF) and later The Gangster Choir (in New York).
[5]
In 1985, 1986, 1989, and 1994 she received
MacDowell Colony
fellowships, which helped enable her to write the novel
Dogeaters
, which illuminates many different aspects of
Filipino
experience, focusing on the influence of America through radio, television, and movie theaters.
[6]
[7]
She shows the complexities of the love-hate relationship many Filipinos in
diaspora
feel toward their past. After its publication in 1990, her novel earned a 1990
National Book Award
nomination and an
American Book Award
. In 1998
La Jolla Playhouse
produced a stage adaptation.
[8]
In 2001, the play adaptation premiered off-Broadway at
The Public Theater
.
Hagedorn worked with playwrights and artists
Robbie McCauley
and
Laurie Carlos
as the collective Thought Music, which later expanded to include visual artist John Woo as well. Together Thought Music created a number of works including
Teenytown
(presented at
La Mama
in 1987)
[9]
and
class
(presented at
The Kitchen
in 2000).
[10]
Thought Music together investigated race, class, sexism, and the role of immigrants in the United States.
[11]
Hagedorn, with Thought Music and on her own, has also collaborated with
Urban Bush Women
on works including
Heat
[12]
and
Lipstick
.
[13]
Hagedorn, alongside
bell hooks
,
June Jordan
, and seven others won the
Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund
annual Writer's Awards in 1994 and received $105,000 each.
[14]
In 2006, Hagedorn was one of the first eight playwrights to receive the Lucille Lortel Foundation fellowship.
[15]
In 2021, Hagedorn was the recipient of the Bret Adams and Paul Reisch Foundation's 2021 Idea Awards for Theatre where she received The Tooth of Time Distinguished Career Award and $20,000.
[16]
[17]
Hagedorn, in collaboration with
Two River Theater
, is also working on a musical detailing the rise of Jean and
June Millington
of
Fanny
.
[5]
Hagedorn lives in New York City with her daughters.
Literary works
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- Chiquita Banana. Third World Women
(3rd World Communications, 1972)
- Pet Food & Tropical Apparitions
(Momo's Press, 1975)
- Dangerous Music
(Momo's Press, 1975)
- Mango Tango
(
Y'Bird Magazine
January 1, 1977)
- Dogeaters
(Penguin Books, 1990)
- Danger and Beauty
(Penguin Books, 1993)
- Charlie Chan is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction
(editor) (Penguin Books, 1993)
- The Gangster of Love
(Houghton Mifflin, 1996)
- Burning Heart: A Portrait of the Philippines
(with Marissa Roth) (Rizzoli, 1999)
- Dream Jungle
(Viking Press/Penguin), 2003)
- Toxicology
(Penguin Books, 2011)
Anthologies that include Hagedorn's work
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- Four Young Women
, ed. Kenneth Rexroth (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1973).
- Time To Greez! Incantations From the Third World
, eds. Janice Mirikitani, et al. (San Francisco: Glide Pubs., 1975).
- American Born and Foreign: An Anthology of Asian American Poetry
, eds. Fay Chiang, et al. (New York: Sunbury Press Books, 1979).
- Breaking Silence: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Poets
, ed. Joseph Bruchac (New York: Greenfield Review Press, 1983).
- The Open Boat: Poems From Asian America
, ed. Garrett Hongo (New York: Doubleday, 1993).
- Stars Don't Stand Still in the Sky: Music and Myth
, eds. Karen Kelly and Evelyn McDonnell (New York: New York University Press, 1999).
- Stage Presence: Conversations with Filipino American Performing Artists
, ed. Theodore S. Gonzalves (San Francisco and St. Helena: Meritage Press, 2007).
- The Soho Press Book of 80s Short Fiction
, ed. Dale Peck (New York, NY: Soho Press, 2016).
References
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Nakao, Annie (November 2, 2003).
"Hagedorn's reel life dreams / A San Francisco-raised author's apocalyptic roman a clef"
.
San Francisco Chronicle
. Retrieved
August 29,
2013
.
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Sengupta, Somini (1996-12-04).
"Cultivating The Art Of the Melange"
.
The New York Times
.
ISSN
0362-4331
. Retrieved
2021-11-18
.
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"Living Writers Series: Jessica Hagedorn ? The Humanities Institute"
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thi.ucsc.edu
. Retrieved
2021-11-18
.
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Cucinella, Catherine; Nelson, Emmanuel (2002).
Contemporary American women poets : an A-to-Z guide
. Catherine Cucinella. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. pp. 163?167.
ISBN
978-1-4294-7550-1
.
OCLC
144590762
.
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a
b
Mishan, Ligaya; Schorr, Collier; Holmes, Matt (2021-08-11).
"The Asian Pop Stars Taking Center Stage"
.
The New York Times
.
ISSN
0362-4331
. Retrieved
2021-11-18
.
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"Jessica Hagedorn - Artist"
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MacDowell
. Retrieved
2021-11-18
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Jacolbe, Jessica (2019-06-19).
"The Filipino Novel That Reimagined Neocolonial Gender"
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JSTOR Daily
. Retrieved
2021-11-18
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"ABOUT | JESSICA HAGEDORN"
.
www.jessicahagedorn.net
. 26 October 2010
. Retrieved
2018-03-03
.
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"Teenytown | Robbie McCauley"
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robbiemccauleyncompany.com
. Archived from
the original
on 2019-04-29
. Retrieved
2018-03-03
.
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"class | The Kitchen Archive"
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archive.thekitchen.org
. Retrieved
2018-03-03
.
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Carr, C. (2012-04-09).
On Edge: Performance at the End of the Twentieth Century
. Wesleyan University Press.
ISBN
9780819572424
.
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"Heat | The Kitchen Archive"
.
archive.thekitchen.org
. Retrieved
2018-03-03
.
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"Jacobs Pillow Archive: Moving image: Urban Bush Women [295]"
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archives.jacobspillow.org
. Retrieved
2018-03-03
.
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"10 Writers Win Grants"
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The New York Times
. 1994-12-22.
ISSN
0362-4331
. Retrieved
2021-11-18
.
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Robertson, Campbell (2006-10-31).
"Arts, Briefly; Lortel Playwriting Awards"
.
The New York Times
.
ISSN
0362-4331
. Retrieved
2021-11-18
.
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"Adams and Reisch Foundation Announces 2021 Idea Awards Winners"
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AMERICAN THEATRE
. 2021-04-26
. Retrieved
2021-11-18
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Miller, Deb (2021-04-28).
"Presentation of the 2021 Idea Awards for Theatre"
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DC Metro Theater Arts
. Retrieved
2021-11-18
.
Sources
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- Seiwoong Oh:
Encyclopedia
of Asian-American Literature.
Series: Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Literature. Facts on File, 2007
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