Name: Yellow Face
Start: 2024-09-13 10:00:00
End: 2024-11-24 23:59:00
Location: Todd Haimes Theatre

Tony Award^® winner and three-time Pulitzer finalist David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly) will make his Roundabout debut with the Broadway premiere of Yellow Face, his hilarious is-he-or-isn’t-he comedy of identity, show business, and (perhaps) autobiography. Starring Daniel Dae Kim (Lost) and directed by Tony nominee Leigh Silverman (Violet).

Inspired by real events, the playwright’s fictionalized doppelgänger protests yellowface casting in Miss Saigon, only to mistakenly cast a white actor as the Asian lead in his own play. This Obie Award-winning and Pulitzer finalist play is a laugh-out-loud farce about the complexities of race.

Running time: One hour and forty-five minutes. No intermission.

DHH: Daniel Dae Kim
Actor A: Kevin Del Aguila
Marcus: Ryan Eggold
HYH & Others: Francis Jue
Actor B: Marinda Anderson
Reporter: Greg Keller
Leah & Others: Shannon Tyo
u/s DHH, HYH & Others: Paul Juhn
u/s Leah & Others: Olivia Oguma
u/s Marcus, Reporter: Zach Shaffer
u/s Actor A, Actor B: David Ryan Smith

Playwright: David Henry Hwang
Director: Leigh Silverman
Set Design: Arnulfo Maldonado
Costume Design: Anita Yavich
Lighting Design: Lap Chi Chu
Sound Design & Original Music: Caroline Eng and Kate Marvin
Projection Design: Yee Eun Nam
Hair and Make-up Design: Will Vicari
Voice Coach: Patrick Mulryan
Production Stage Manager: Charles Means

A white man hugs a smiling Asian man wearing glasses and holding a script in the rehearsal studio — Ryan Eggold and Daniel Dae Kim.
Photo by Marcus Middleton

An Asian man wearing glasses sits on a rehearsal bench and clasps his hands while smiling. An Asian woman next to him crosses her arms and glares at him. — Daniel Dae Kim and Shannon Tyo.
Photo by Marcus Middleton

In a rehearsal stuido, a white man holds a script entitled "YELLOW FACE" and stands between an Asian man in glasses and a Black woman holding a tape recorder out to him. — Daniel Dae Kim, Ryan Eggold, and Marinda Anderson.
Photo by Marcus Middleton

A white woman with wavy black hair and bangs, wearing glasses and a red jumpsuit, sits behind a music stand in a rehearsal room and speaks to the room. — Leigh Silverman
Photo by Marcus Middleton

An Asian man with messy dark gray hair and facial hair smiles and leans on a rehearsal table with a script in front of him. — David Henry Hwang
Photo by Marcus Middleton

Four actors stand and sit around a rehearsal studio with scripts in hand. — Kevin Del Aguila, Ryan Eggold, Shannon Tyo, and Daniel Dae Kim.
Photo by Marcus Middleton

THEATRE TALK

Learn more about the history of the production and its creators through a lively discussion with Roundabout Teaching Artists.

Art photography by Marcelo Krasilcic.

Major support for Yellow Face is generously provided by Liz and Ken Whitney.

Yellow Face is made possible by the Champions for Inclusive Theatre and Roundabout’s Forward Fund. We acknowledge the generous friends who support our many efforts to increase representation and inclusion in all aspects of theatre: Elizabeth Armstrong, Bank of America, Eugene and Joann Bissell and the Lillian Lincoln Foundation, Kevin Brown, Barbara and Peter Bye, Ginger McKnight Chavers, Ford Foundation, Jill and Barry Lafer, Gina Maria Leonetti, Iva Mills, Beryl Snyder, and Denise Littlefield Sobel.