Byron Au Yong | 歐陽良仁

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"Every half-hour, another person becomes a slave in the United States."

E. Benjamin Skinner


Stuck Elevator is an operatic solo performance about an undocumented immigrant and a fortune cookie trapped between fear and hope.

DESCRIPTION

Chinese restaurant deliveryman Kuang gets trapped in an elevator.

Working at Happy Dragon Restaurant, he pays off his $60,000 debt to smugglers for his passage from China to the United States; from a country touted as the next global economic superpower to a country founded on the ideals of democracy and freedom.


After three days, he emerges dehydrated and terrified into a New York media blitz.


Stuck Elevator is an operatic solo performance prompted by this real-life experience of an undocumented immigrant/indentured slave in 21st century America.

IN DEVELOPMENT

Stuck Elevator is currently being developed by composer Byron Au Yong and hip-hop playwright Aaron Jafferis as part of a 2009-2010 NYU A/P/A Intitute Artists-in-Residence Program.


Stuck Elevator is a project of Creative Capital with additional support from API/2, Artist Trust, and 4Culture.

UP NEXT

April 2010
NYU A/P/A Institute Events

New York
 
June 2010
Music Workshop Residency

New Haven

October 2010

Migration Symposium
New York

MEDIA RESOURCES
 Audio Interview (mp3)

 Sean Ryan, On the Boards, June 2009


 Thoughts on Stuck Elevator
 Cynthia Wang, the randomness of a mint
 

 NW New Works
 Jeremy Barker, Seattlest

 Stuck Elevator Opera
 Gavin Borchert, Seattle Weekly
 
 Stuck in Elevator, No Way Out 
 Caroline Li, Northwest Asian Weekly


Articles about Ming Kuang Chen, Fujianese immigrantion, take-out, and other related news on the
Stuck Elevator blog
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AUDIO DEMO