Rated R/MA (mature audience) for adult language and themes. Recommended for ages 17+ and parental guidance for younger audiences.
Dragon Lady
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GANGSTERS… MURDER... KARAOKE?
After Grandma Porkalob’s birthday party karaoke antics, you’ll never hear “House of the Rising Sun” or “Gangsta’s Paradise” the same way again. Broadway star Sara Porkalob belts out the funny and fearless tale of her Filipino gangster family’s sordid and often laugh-out-loud past in a musical that will have all generations buzzing. Each pitch-perfect performance is more transcendent than the last, garnering Sara the title of “POWERHOUSE…a FORCE and a PHENOMENON” (Boston Globe). Now, it’s Pittsburgh’s turn to bask in the Porkalob experience with Sara, Grandma Maria, and the countless characters who made their matriarchy really “sing.”
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Rating: R/MA (mature audience). Recommended for 18+ and parental guidance strongly suggested for anyone under 18.
Featuring
Writer and Performer
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Sara Porkalob
Writer and Performer
Sara Porkalob
is a theater maker, cultural worker, and creator of the DRAGON CYCLE. DRAGON CYCLE is a trilogy of matrilineal musicals about her Filipino American gangster family; one play for each generation built around a central female protagonist – grandmother, mother, granddaughter – and her specific hero's journey. DRAGON LADY is the recipient of three 2018 Gregory Awards, for Outstanding Sound/Music Design, Outstanding Actress in a Musical, and Outstanding Musical Production. The second in the cycle, DRAGON MAMA, won Best Original Script and Best Solo Performance for the 2019 Elliot Norton Awards. The third play, DRAGON BABY, is currently in development. Awards and nominations include: 2021 Princess Grace Award Winner for Theater, 2020 nominee Seattle Mayor’s Arts Award, Seattle Times 11 Movers and Shakers to Watch this Decade, 2019 nominee for Americans for the Arts Johnson Fellowship for Artists Transforming Communities, Seattle Magazine’s 2018's Most Influential People, and 2017 City Art's Futures List. She is a co-founder of DeConstruct, an online journal of intersectional performance critique. She recently made her Broadway debut playing Edward Rutledge in the official revival of the musical 1776. She’s a consultant with the City of Seattle and its Creative Strategies Initiative (CSI), a new City effort that uses arts- and culture-based approaches to build racial equity in non-arts policy areas like the environment, housing, workforce and community development. @sporkalob, www.saraporkalob.com
Guitar
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Pete Irving
Guitar
Pete Irving has been pursuing music professionally for nearly half of his life. He's been the band leader for Hot Damn Scandal since it formed on his birthday just over 15 years ago, he's been composing scores and lyrics for theater and circus for almost seven years, and just last year he wrote and directed his first production - "Chronopolis: Crime in Time City". He lives most of the year in Bellingham, Washington.
Bass
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Mickey Stylin
Bass
What started as a bad habit playing house shows in punk bands as a teen, Mickey's journey as an audial artist has since expanded into the realms of circus and theater. He challenges the stereotypical boundaries of the upright bass and continuously seeks to utilize it to its full potential.
Trombone
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Jimmy Austin
Trombone
Jimmy Austin inherited his name and first trombone from his grandfather. He brings his intense, expressive, and collaborative style to many projects around the Pacific Northwest and is particularly active in Seattle’s Yiddish music community. Jimmy has performed with Dragon Lady for seven years and Hot Damn Scandal for ten.
Director
Stage Manager
Scenic Designer
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Sasha Jin Schwartz
Scenic Designer
Sasha Jin Schwartz is a theater scenic designer and artist inspired by family and how spaces tell stories. Selected designs: Dragon Lady (Pittsburgh Public Theater), Birthday Candles (City Theatre), The Hobbit (Arden Theatre), Little Shop of Horrors (Virginia Theatre Festival). PQ Exhibited Designer, TCG Rising Leader of Color. BFA CMU Drama.
sashaschwartzscenic.com
Lighting Designer
Sound Designer
Assistant Director
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Alex Manalo
Assistant Director
Alex Manalo is ecstatic to be working with PPT in this capacity on this beautiful show. Point Park Univ. Alum. Since graduating, Alex has been grateful to work and perform with several theater companies in the Pittsburgh area such as CLO, MTAP, City Theatre, Arcade Comedy Theater, RealTime Art, Pittsburgh Playhouse, Front Porch, Academy Theater, Throughline, and Hiawatha Project. Represented by the Docherty Agency. Member of AEA and also a member of the Filipino American Association of Pittsburgh.
Gallery
Run Time:
2 hours, 10 minutes, including intermission
Accessibility:
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