STAGE PRESENCE: Conversations with American Performing Artists
Edited by Theodore S. Gonzalves
ISBN-13: 978-0-9794119-3-9
ISBN-10: 0-9794119-3-9
Copyright 2007
Published by Meritage Press

Meritage Press is delighted to announce the release of a historic document: STAGE PRESENCE: CONVERSATIONS WITH FILIPINO AMERICAN PERFORMING ARTISTS, Edited by Theodore S. Gonzalves, a musician and assistant professor of American Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa.

STAGE PRESENCE is a collection of essays and interviews with Filipino American performing artists. Each of the chapters features critically acclaimed and popular artists in their own right, who have also mentored hundreds of dancers, comedians, theater artists and musicians of all genres. In this rare collection, performers take time off stage to speak candidly about their creative processes, revealing personal frustrations and triumphs, while testifying to the challenges of what it could mean to be an artist of Filipino descent working and living in the United States.

- Publisher's Release

OOV Bookshelf 2008

JANUARY 2008 FEATURE Memories of Philippine Kitchens: Stories and Recipes from Far and Near by Amy Besa and Romy Dorotan Making Theater: The Craft of the Stage by Steven P.C. Fernandez Surreality by Clarissa Villacorta Stage Presence: Conversations with American Performing Artists edited by Theodore S. Gonzalves Like the Mimosa: A Collection of Short Stories, Essays & Poems by Eusebio L. Koh Mga Piling Dulang Mindanao: Unang Aklat edited by Arthur P. Casanova Field of Mirrors: an Anthology of Philippine American Writers edited by Edwin A. Lozada