David Hsieh

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  Last Visited: 3/24/2007  

  For more information, or to apply, send in your resume to ReAct or email David Hsieh, ReAct's Managing Artistic Director.
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  Photo: David Hsieh.

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  Published on: 8/4/2008    Last Visited: 8/4/2008  

  "Perestroika," directed by ReAct's artistic director David Hsieh, is running at the Ethnic Cultural Theatre in the U District.
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  Hsieh is an exciting director who hasn't yet received his due.What he does here with his fearless cast is create some of the best ensemble work I've seen this year.

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  seattlepi.nwsource.com/theater/371169_theater18.html - [Cached Version]
  Last Visited: 7/18/2008  

  As David Hsieh, managing artistic director of Repertory Actors Theatres explained, the unpredictability of small theater companies made it impossible to fully coordinate his production with the production at Absurd Reality Theater.

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  Published on: 6/1/2007    Last Visited: 6/1/2007  

  As a young actor in the early 1990s, David Hsieh racked up a hefty list of stage credits with the Northwest Asian American Theatre (NWAAT).It was good experience for the Chinese American actor, but-as evidenced by titles like Godzilla Comes to Little Tokyo and Yeb-Yang-Ah- the parts he landed were generally limited to characters of Asian descent.Like any actor, Hsieh wanted to branch out and try different kinds of roles, but he often found the process of auditioning in what he called the "real world" frustrating."I wasn't getting to do the shows that I really wanted to work on," he recalled."Certainly, what I look like was a big part of that."
  
  I talked with Hsieh, along with two other actors and a director, about the challenges minority actors face in professional theatre.His frustration was shared by his fellow NWAAT performers, so they pulled together and did something about it.
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  "It was a new challenge for us as actors," said Hsieh."We basically did an all-Asian version of this very waspy, 1950s comedy-drama.And we thought, you know, this is pretty cool."
  
  So cool, in fact, that the experience led Hsieh to found the Repertory Actors Theatre, or ReAct, a Seattle-based nonprofit theatre with a thirteen-year track record of fostering diversity through nontraditional casting.Past ReAct efforts reflect the company's philosophy, including multi-ethnic versions of classics like A Chorus Line, Barefoot in the Park, and The Importance of Being Earnest.Hsieh, ReAct's artistic director, casts shows with the continued goal of diversity in mind.He adamantly pointed out, however, that his methods shouldn't be thought of as "colorblind casting," a phrase used to describe casting techniques where race and ethnicity are summarily ignored.
  
  Hsieh maintains that race and ethnicity can't be ignored, which is why you won't see ReAct producing a typical colorblind show where, for instance, Hamlet is black and his mother is white."We take into account that an actor is a person of color to make the play more universal," he noted, "but we also want it to make sense.

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  Published on: 3/31/2007    Last Visited: 8/27/2007  

  ,David Hsieh, director and actor

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  Published on: 6/17/2009    Last Visited: 8/27/2009  

  Anna-Marie Devine, Jessica Skerritt, Jason Kappus and David Hsieh in the wedding scene from ReAct's encore of The Last Five Years.
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  --David Hsieh, Director of The Last Five Years

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  Published on: 3/13/2007    Last Visited: 3/13/2007  

  David Hsieh Artistic Director.

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  seattlepi.nwsource.com/theater/328788_fanf24.html - [Cached Version]
  Last Visited: 8/25/2007  

  "One reason I decided to put on 'The Exonerated,' " says ReAct artistic director David Hsieh, "is that I wanted to see it as a real play with actors who have memorized their lines.We have a witness stand, an interrogation room and the accused interacting with their accusers.It can be very dramatic."Hsieh also has included music and a sound design.
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  "I didn't take a poll," says Hsieh.
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  "Money is power, and power is what matters," Hsieh says.

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  Address list - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/19/2006    Last Visited: 10/1/2009  

  Artistic Director, David Hsieh 1122 E Pike Street #1111 Seattle WA 98122 206/364-3283 react@reacttheatre.org

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  ArtsBuzz: ReAct Revictimized (Seattle Weekly) - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/29/2006    Last Visited: 3/29/2006  

  ReAct Artistic Director David Hsieh isn't pointing any fingers, but he hopes the perpetrators drink the case of beer they took, since it's 12 years old and likely to make them sick.

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