From a profile in the NY Times, June 25, 2015
When the actress Mia Katigbak was a student at Barnard College in the 1970s, she was the only Asian-American studying theater and mostly got to play “maids and hookers,” she said. One day the department head asked her to join a Molière comedy. She would play the harpsichord from behind a screen, Ms. Katigbak recalls his saying, “because there were no Asians in France at that time.”
No one is putting her behind a screen anymore. Today Ms. Katigbak, known for tenacity and grace as a stage actress, is much in demand. And for the last 25 years, as co-founder and artistic producing director of the National Asian American Theater Company, she has made it her mission to send Asian-American actors wherever the theatrical canon may lead, from “Our Town” to “Othello” to “Antigone.” Molière’s plays, too.
| Credit Type | Production | Season |
|---|---|---|
| Actor | Paper Angels | 1981-82 Season |