This “Rashomon” was remounted in 2002 and ran Off-Broadway at Theatre Row to prepare for Cuba because Pan Asian was re-invited by the Havana Theatre Festival to perform “Rashomon” at the 2003 festival after the original show cancelled the trip because of 9/11. We were not as big a traveling company this time. The acting company was the same but only a couple of others travelled with us, what with the new traveling situations after 9/11.
This tour remains one of my all-time favorites. It was truly exciting to be representing the U.S. at the festival, still the only U.S. theatre company, at that time, to be invited. Also, just to visit Havana, an almost legendary city by that time, legally, with a license, was an unbelievable, once-in-a- lifetime experience. And to see the city, so dark, literally crumbling, and to experience the people, so vibrant, so energetic, was extraordinary. And I haven’t even mentioned the cigars and the rum, which I enjoyed every day, again, once-in-a-lifetime.
And, they loved the show.
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Ron is a New York City based actor/director originally from Hawaii.
He studied at the University of Hawaii with Glenn Cannon from NY, Terry Knapp from The Royal Shakespeare Co. and with noted voice teacher Kristen Linklater. While there he also studied Kyogen theater with Japan National Treasure Nomura Mansaku and performed in Kabuki.
Selected acting:
NY–Man In Snow (LaMama,) Ping Pong (The Public Theatre,) Ching Chong Chinaman, Rashomon (Pan Asian Repertory Theatre,) Earth and Sky (Second Stage,) The Three Sisters (Pan Asian,) Romeo And Juliet (NYSF/Public Theatre,) As You Like It (NYSF/Public Theatre,) Danton’s Death (LaMama E.T.C.,) The School for Wives (NATCO,) Midsummer Night’s Dream (Pan Asian) REGIONAL– Wild Swans (debut), (Young Vic, London, and A.R.T., Boston,) Snow Falling on Cedars, The Merchant of Venice (Hartford Stage Co.,) Comedy of Errors (The Shakespeare Theatre, D.C.,) The Screens (The Guthrie Theatre,) Othello (Alliance Theatre, Atlanta,) The Empress of China (Cincinnati Playhouse,) Cyrano (ACT, San Francisco,) Taming of the Shrew (ACT,) Diary of a Scoundrel (Hawaii Public Theatre) FILM–Isn't It Romantic, The Wolf of Wall Street, Sleepwalk With Me, I Think I Love My Wife, College Road Trip. TV- can be seen currently recurring as Hirochi in Netflix's Daredevil Season 2; Madam Secretary, Elementary, NYC 22, The Good Wife, Fringe, 3 LBS., Whoopi, Cosby Mysteries, Law & Order, Law & Order SVU, One Life to Live, As the World Turns, All My Children, Pearl, The Miniseries, Hawaii 5-O (the original).
As a director, Ron has worked at theatres and Universities around the country. He was one of the first 6 recipients of the NEA-TCG Director Fellowship Award in 1987.
