{"id":498,"date":"2012-06-15T19:35:01","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T19:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/mitch-miyagawa\/"},"modified":"2024-08-12T12:27:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T16:27:21","slug":"miyagawa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/miyagawa\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitch Miyagawa"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mitch Miyagawa is a native of Edmonton, Alberta. He lived in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory where he served a number of years ago as Playwright-in-Residence at the Nakai Theatre<\/a>. He has worked as an educator and an environmental planner and has written stories in addition to plays. His award winning documentary, A Sorry State<\/em><\/a> (2012) about government apologies was commissioned by TVO and Knowledge Network. Miyagawa became a Certified Trainer with the Center for Nonviolent Communication in 2014. He now lives on Gabriola Island, BC.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Drama<\/h3>\n

The Plum Tree<\/h3>\n

Toronto, Ont.: Playwrights Canada Press, 2004.<\/p>\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (from the Playwrights Guild of Canada Website)<\/h4>\n

Family histories collide in this thoughtful and tender drama as a young Japanese-Canadian man and a German-Canadian widow struggle for ownership, justice and harmony in the country that belongs to all of us and, at times, none of us.<\/p>\n

Also:<\/p>\n

“The Plum Tree.” In Love + Relasianships: A Collection of Contemporary Asian-Canadian Drama<\/em>. Volume 1<\/span>, ed. Nina Lee Aquino. Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2009, 237-279.
\nPS8309 .A75 L68 2009<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Links<\/h3>\n

Mitch Miyagawa personal website<\/a><\/p>\n

Biography from the Japanese Canadian Artists Directory<\/a><\/p>\n

Publisher Playwrights Canada Press<\/a><\/p>\n

Production archive for Miyagawa’s “Carnaval<\/a>” from the Gwaandak Theatre Adventures website (2007)<\/p>\n

Playwrights Guild of Canada<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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