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How Daniel Dae Kim Finds the Funny in Broadway’s ‘Yellow Face’
The "Lost" and "Hawaii Five-0" actor plays against type in David Henry Hwang's farcical comedy about race and the theater industry.
Opening on Broadway Oct. 1, “Yellow Face” is a farcical chronicle of Hwang’s experience leading the 1990 protest against the casting of white actor Jonathan Pryce in a major Eurasian role of “Miss Saigon.” In the play, Kim’s character, DHH, accidentally casts a white actor in an Asian role in “Face Value,” Hwang’s real-life play that flopped on Broadway in 1993. He testified before Congress in 2021 about the ongoing wave of anti-Asian hate crimes and won admiration when he and his co-star, Grace Park, walked away from “Hawaii Five-0” after seven seasons over pay disparities with white castmates. As a producer, Kim works to move the needle on inclusivity with his company 3AD, now following up its first success, ABC’s “The Good Doctor,” with “Butterfly,” a spy thriller and family drama expected to arrive on Amazon Prime next year.
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