Rehearsal for "Learning How to Read by Moonlight." (Courtesy Jenny S. Lee/CHUANG Stage) A new, multi-lingual play about a Filipino immigrant boy living in New York City has its world premiere this ...
My post doc after finishing my degree in 1984 was teaching first grade at the bilingual elementary where I had done dissertation research. As I headed out into the real world, a widely admired ...
States must invest not just in literacy laws, but in the networks and training that bring those policies to life.
Playwright Gaven D. Trinidad says when he was young, his father read to him every night, which he called “an incredible act of love.” Trinidad, a first-generation, Filipino-American theater maker, has ...
To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...
The colorful and clattering imagination of a 6-year-old Filipino boy named Eddie is at the center of Gaven D. Trinidad’s first-full length play, “Learning How to Read by Moonlight.” In the show, Eddie ...