Beijing August 31, 2010 Wednesday, July 21, 2010 at 8:11AM Literary Death Match Beijing’s debut episode last April at The Bookworm Beijing was such a smash hit, it inspired us to keep going global. Now, with five international cities under our belt, we’re back in Beijing with a ridiculously talent-rich lineup featuring all-star judges Gady Epstein [...]

I’d like to blame Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs on my latest project acceptance: a cartoon! After watching the cheerily cheeky aforementioned film, I thought ‘Gee, wouldn’t it be fun to be in a cartoon? And SO much easier than filming an actual movie!’ and well, here I am! Got a phone call when [...]

Spent this morning at a study in the northern outback of Beijing’s Haidian District filming a silly little commercial for the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China 工商银行. I think I’m meant to be a sexy secretary and/or corporate executive (is there a difference?). I mean, from a costuming perspective, of course. Ha. But still [...]

Tonight’s the last night, get up to 798 and catch the show if you can!

And just in case you aren’t yet on the email list, go to the CMT website here and subscribe: http://www.cheekymonkeytheater.com/email/email.html In further randomness, I was amused when I saw this headline in Vanity Fair: Rob Corddry Believes “Fear of Clowns” is Not a Real Thing. My first response was “Hello, yes, of course clown-phobia is [...]

So Cheeky Monkey has come up with a new series of workshops (which is essentially for me to work with lots of playwrights and actors on a wide variety of mini-plays) called Chinglish Chats. Each show is different characters and situations, themes and topics, etc but each show also contains a lot of Chinglish, hehe [...]

Beijing ‘Chinglish’ Theater Finds Humor Where West Meets China Carolina Review May/June 2010 The beauty of living in China as a starving artist, says Elyse Ribbons ’03, is that you never actually have to starve because food is so cheap. You can set up your life around the arts and know you’re still going to [...]

http://www.chinaredneck.org/ 上周六我带了几个玩皮猴子成员去我朋友张宇在昌平的有机农场看看。一起去的还有几个新加入的小玩皮猴子们，就是那些WAB京西国际学校的学生们。我们去那边有好几个原因：学习，打工，吃饭，玩儿，表演。我没想到我们还会有机会跳拉丁舞，哈哈。 这是一个很好的机会让孩子们发现自己艺术表演的力量多么大。那些特殊天使（残疾儿童）非常的配合我们的演出，而且跟他们合作非常的开心而且可以学很多东西。 我们表演培训完了就开始打工了，呵呵。我们一起努力了收拾一些果园里的树什么的。大家一起努力合作让我们很快就弄完了。然后大家喝了一些新鲜有机薄荷茶（左边的照片是我正在夹薄荷叶的时候，哈哈）还吃了一些西瓜因为时间问题我们很快就得走。在农场的一天虽然很累但是也会给大家很大的成就感。心满意足的坐公交车回家了 我希望以后还有更多的机会让我们玩皮猴子戏剧社跟那边的特殊天使剧组一起合作，参加更多的舞台的表演！

Recently as part of the Week of Work program that the Western Academy of Beijing (aka: WAB) does for its 10th graders every May, Cheeky Monkey was approached about taking an intern (or 8). And, rather than just having the kids come and work on another production for Cheeky Monkey (ie: really just organizing name [...]