{"id":550,"date":"2012-06-15T19:35:06","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T19:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/r-a-shiomi\/"},"modified":"2024-08-12T12:17:03","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T16:17:03","slug":"shiomi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/shiomi\/","title":{"rendered":"R.A. Shiomi"},"content":{"rendered":"
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R.A. (Richard Alan) Shiomi is a third-generation Japanese-Canadian who’s plays have been performed in Canada, the U.S.A. and in translation in Japan. He has also written for television, co-authored two librettos, directed, and even designed sets early in his career. Shiomi was born in Toronto, earned a B.A. at the University of Toronto in 1970 and a teaching certificate from Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C. He was involved with the Powell Street Festival<\/a> in Vancouver from its inception 1977 and went on to become a prominent member of the Asian American theatre movement. Rick Shiomi continues to be based in Minnesota where he has contributed to many theatrical ventures, most recently (November 2017) as co-artistic director of the Full Circle Theater Company in St. Paul, MN. Toronto Metropolitan University Library has access to fourteen of the plays that Shiomi<\/a> wrote or co-wrote via Alexander Street Press’s Asian American Drama Collection<\/em>. His play Yellow Fever<\/em> was first published by Playwrights Canada Press in 1984, making it perhaps the earliest Asian-Canadian play.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Anthology (Drama)<\/h3>\n

“Yellow Fever.” In Love + Relasianships: A Collection of Contemporary Asian-Canadian Drama<\/em>. Volume 1<\/span>, ed. Nina Lee Aquino. Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2009, 1-53.<\/p>\n

PS8309 .A75 L68 2009<\/a>
\nAlso available to TMU community members in electronic format<\/a> via Alexander Street Press’s Asian American Drama Collection<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Criticism and Interpretation<\/h3>\n

Lee, Josephine D. “R.A. Shiomi.” In Asian American Playwrights: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook<\/span><\/em>, ed. Miles Xian Liu. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Greenwood Press, 2002, 315-320.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Links<\/h3>\n

R. A. Shiomi Fonds<\/a> (Rare Books and Special Collections, University of British Columbia Library)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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