Stefani Kuo's guest appearances

Stefani Kuo

We Don't Even Know

The Parsnip Ship

Divided Families Podcast

Phoebe Robinson

David Cross

Todd Barry

Josh Gondelman

Hari Kondabolu

Maeve Higgins

Shilpa Ray

Patricia Clarkson

Nimesh Patel

Nore Davis

Keisha Zollar

Tessa Hersh

Matt Arnold

Hannibal Buress

Nicole Chung

OwlTail

Meghan Linsey

Shonali got her wisdom teeth pulled.  Justin got a sun tan and Christian shares new (not exactly accurate) CDC guidelines.  As more of us are vaccinated and we start to venture out more often, nature is not ready for us.   We warn Christian not to watch last week's viral rabid bobcat video in which this brave husband in North Carolina rescued his wife. Shonali loved it.  Christian as you all know is terrified of urban wildlife.   Our first guest is an award winning playwright, poet &amp; actress Stefani Kuo!  Stefani makes powerful and compelling art which often features stories from the Asian American community.  She describes her recent work The Conservation of Parity about a brilliant female Chinese physicist, Chien-Shiung Wu who immigrated to America and worked on the atomic bomb.  Stefani shares her thoughts on the state of American theater, the general lack of awareness Americans have regarding the Asian American community, Andrew Yang's candidacy for NYC Mayor, and great hiking spots in the NYC vicinity!    Christian comes out of the Croc closet!  We discuss his new love of this controversial footwear and how far he is willing to take this new ugly journey.   Our musical guest is singer-songwriter Meghan Linsey! You may know her from either her time as half of a duo Steel Magnolia which hit  #3 on the country music charts or her runner up win on The Voice Season 8. Shonali met her at honky tonk night in Nashville years ago, not knowing any of the above and just thought she was a lovely person she wanted to stay in touch with.  As we all have had rough years, Meghan is no exception. Her studio was hit by the Nashville tornados, her wedding had to be cancelled due to the pandemic, and there has been illness within her family - yet she manages the stress with a "go with the flow" attitude.  We discuss Nashville, feeling like an outsider, kneeling during the National Anthem at a NFL game, standing up for social justice, Alaska, and having a green thumb!    Check out Meghan Linsey and Tyler Cain's duet Nowhere With You.  It's so beautiful!  Congrats to #JustinTheIntern Justin Hall for winning the Platinum Remi Award for short film drama at the Houston International Film Festival as director, also written by our friend Piper Werle!   Lastly thank you for being with us! Follow us on @wdekpodcast on all socials! Also Christian Felix is high maintenance! Love you! 

Shonali got her wisdom teeth pulled.  Justin got a sun tan and Christian shares new (not exactly accurate) CDC guidelines.  As more of us are vaccinated and we start to venture out more often, nature is not ready for us.  We warn Christian not to watch last week's viral rabid bobcat video in which this brave husband in North Carolina rescued his wife. Shonali loved it.  Christian as you all know is terrified of urban wildlife.  Our first guest is an award winning playwright, poet &amp; actress Stefani Kuo!  Stefani makes powerful and compelling art which often features stories from the Asian American community.  She describes her recent work The Conservation of Parity about a brilliant female Chinese physicist, Chien-Shiung Wu who immigrated to America and worked on the atomic bomb.  Stefani shares her thoughts on the state of American theater, the general lack of awareness Americans have regarding the Asian American community, Andrew Yang's candidacy for NYC Mayor, and great hiking spots in the NYC vicinity!   Christian comes out of the Croc closet!  We discuss his new love of this controversial footwear and how far he is willing to take this new ugly journey.  Our musical guest is singer-songwriter Meghan Linsey! You may know her from either her time as half of a duo Steel Magnolia which hit  #3 on the country music charts or her runner up win on The Voice Season 8. Shonali met her at honky tonk night in Nashville years ago, not knowing any of the above and just thought she was a lovely person she wanted to stay in touch with.  As we all have had rough years, Meghan is no exception. Her studio was hit by the Nashville tornados, her wedding had to be cancelled due to the pandemic, and there has been illness within her family - yet she manages the stress with a "go with the flow" attitude.  We discuss Nashville, feeling like an outsider, kneeling during the National Anthem at a NFL game, standing up for social justice, Alaska, and having a green thumb!   Check out Meghan Linsey and Tyler Cain's duet <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gszXcJ3U484" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Nowhere With You.  </a>It's so beautiful! Congrats to #JustinTheIntern Justin Hall for winning the Platinum Remi Award for short film drama at the Houston International Film Festival as director, also written by our friend Piper Werle!  Lastly thank you for being with us! Follow us on @wdekpodcast on all socials! Also Christian Felix is high maintenance! Love you!

WDEK Podcast Ep. 91: Stefani Kuo & Meghan Linsey - 4/27/21

Stefani Kuo is a playwright/performer and native of Hong Kong and Taiwan. She is currently an MFA Playwriting Candidate at the Yale School of Drama, and has been awarded, among others, a Jerome fellowship. In this episode, Eugene sits down to talk with Stefani about her latest play, "Final Boarding Call," which tells the human stories of the Hong Kong protests through the seven interconnected characters that range from a flight attendant to an American expat CEO. Recorded in the midst of the Black Lives Matter protests in America, the conversation also touches on having the space to talk about multiple issues at the same time and how doing so might yield additional insights."Final Boarding Call" will be performed online as part of the Bay Area Playwrights Festival 2020 on Sunday, July 19th and Saturday, July 25th at 5pm PST: http://playwrightsfoundation.org/2020-bay-area-playwrights-festival/Stefani's Website: http://www.stefanikuo.com/Stefani's blog on the Hong Kong protests: https://parachutehongkonger.wordpress.com/For updates, follow us on Instagram at @DividedFamiliesPodcast, and contact us at dividedfamiliespodcast@gmail.com

Stefani Kuo is a playwright/performer and native of Hong Kong and Taiwan. She is currently an MFA Playwriting Candidate at the Yale School of Drama, and has been awarded, among others, a Jerome fellowship. In this episode, Eugene sits down to talk with Stefani about her latest play, "Final Boarding Call," which tells the human stories of the Hong Kong protests through the seven interconnected characters that range from a flight attendant to an American expat CEO. Recorded in the midst of the Black Lives Matter protests in America, the conversation also touches on having the space to talk about multiple issues at the same time and how doing so might yield additional insights. "Final Boarding Call" will be performed online as part of the Bay Area Playwrights Festival 2020 on Sunday, July 19th and Saturday, July 25th at 5pm PST: <a href="http://playwrightsfoundation.org/2020-bay-area-playwrights-festival/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://playwrightsfoundation.org/2020-bay-area-playwrights-festival/</a> Stefani's Website: <a href="http://www.stefanikuo.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.stefanikuo.com/</a> Stefani's blog on the Hong Kong protests: <a href="https://parachutehongkonger.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://parachutehongkonger.wordpress.com/</a> For updates, follow us on Instagram at @DividedFamiliesPodcast, and contact us at dividedfamiliespodcast@gmail.com

Ep. 12 | "Final Boarding Call" and Hong Kong Intersectionality with Stefani Kuo

directed by Theo Maltz, with musical guest May Cheung "In a small San Francisco apartment in the 1990’s, Meryl and Ana Sofia, a lesbian couple, attempt to conceive a child through in-vitro fertilization while navigating Meryl's bipolar disorder II. In the same apartment two decades later, their daughter, Robyn and her roommate Hadley are forced to navigate their friendship through Robyn's cancer. In the struggle to take control of their lives, relationships, and illnesses four women unravel the complexity of their Asian, Bulgarian, and outsider to American identities and experience the potential loss of female friendship and sense of self: What does it mean to love someone honestly even when they are incapable of being honest with themselves?" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

directed by Theo Maltz, with musical guest May Cheung "In a small San Francisco apartment in the 1990’s, Meryl and Ana Sofia, a lesbian couple, attempt to conceive a child through in-vitro fertilization while navigating Meryl's bipolar disorder II. In the same apartment two decades later, their daughter, Robyn and her roommate Hadley are forced to navigate their friendship through Robyn's cancer. In the struggle to take control of their lives, relationships, and illnesses four women unravel the complexity of their Asian, Bulgarian, and outsider to American identities and experience the potential loss of female friendship and sense of self: What does it mean to love someone honestly even when they are incapable of being honest with themselves?" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Delicacy Of A Puffin Heart by Stefani Kuo