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Please join us for the reading of Goy Vey! by Richard Chang. Goy Vey! Adventures of a Dim Sun in Search of his Wanton Father is a live cartoon about a Chinese schlemiel who sells batteries in the New York subway while looking for his elusive origins – to the chagrin of his secretive Chinese Opera diva mama. In this whodunit mystery, Jackie Sun travels all over NYC and discovers similarities between cultures – in language, music and dance – that wreak havoc on stereotypes, leading to a celebration of the diversity and one-ness of the human race.

ABOUT Richard Chang (张德胜)

Richard Chang is a performer-playwright-journalist who seeks to tell neglected stories in entertaining ways that authentically reflect America’s diversity. His works reflect his background in Asian and Western theater, dance and opera; puppetry; and improv comedy. His play, Citizen Wong, premiered at Pan Asian Repertory Theatre in 2022, and soon morphed into the Citizen Wong Project to resurrect and celebrate Wong Chin Foo (1847-1898), the first Asian-American civil rights leader. The project’s platforms now also include solo performances, a short film, and a proposed documentary, feature film and TV series, and an upcoming comic developed with AA CARES at San Francisco State University.

Richard’s other acting credits at Pan Asian Rep include The Last Empress and Legend of the White Snake. A founding member of Chinese Theatre Works, he has co-written, directed or performed in Climbing the Gold Mountain, Shadow White Snake, Toy Theater Peony Pavilion and Little Red Riding Hood. Screen roles include Ping Chong & Co’s “Chinoiserie Redux”; “New York, I Love You,” “Windhorse,” “Saving Face,” “Never Forever,” “Chasing America,” “Return to Paradise”; and NBC-TV series “Kidnapped.”

Richard has danced with the New York Dance Theatre, Singapore Ballet Company, Old Dominion Ballet, Kathak Dance Ensemble and Zhongmei Dance Company. As a classically trained bass-baritone, he has sung solo at Weill Recital Hall and Bechstein Hall.

His work has been awarded grants by the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Queens Council on the Arts, Puffin Foundation. He has received an Urban Artist Initiative/New York City fellowship.

ABOUT Pan Asian Repertory Theatre

Pan Asian Repertory Theatre is the pioneer, award-winning Asian American theatre company on the East Coast and the second most veteran in the nation. With the help of the late Ellen Stewart and core Asian American artists at La Mama ETC, Tisa Chang founded Pan Asian Rep in 1977 with the vision that Asian American artists can equally follow their artistic aspirations to reach the zenith of American Theatre.