Meet the Cast of YELLOW FACE on Broadway

David Henry Hwang’s Yellow Face is back this season, thanks to the Roundabout Theatre Company, and this time, it’s on Broadway! The play debuts 17 years after its off-Broadway premiere – both versions directed by Leigh Silverman.

The production is directed by Daniel Dae Kim, who returns to Broadway after his 2016 debut in The King and I.

“I really enjoyed the process! Being able to sit down with really smart, funny, creative people and work together on a play is a real treat,” Kim told BroadwayWorld’s Richard Ridge. “It really feels like a community and an ensemble, especially with someone like Leigh Silverman directing us.”

Inspired by true events, the playwright’s fictional doppelganger protests the casting of yellow characters in Miss Saigon, and mistakenly casts a white actor as the Asian lead in his own play. The Obie Award-winning and Pulitzer Prize-nominated play is a hilarious farce about the complexities of race.

“A lot of times when we’re working on a play, the playwright is no longer with us… so the written text has become canonical and you can’t make changes to it,” Kim added. “Or you’re working on a new play where the script is revised every day and you don’t really know what your play is going to be until the day it opens. Here, we have the advantage of having a play that’s already been produced, so we know it’s already working… but we also have the playwright in the room to help us refine, tweak and give feedback on the current production.”

In this video, watch the entire company break from rehearsals to meet the press before previews begin next week.