Screening of YELLOW FACE, A recording of the 2024 Broadway production
by Great Performances on PBS

We invite you to join us for this special screening and thought-provoking conversation.

Agenda
5:30 – 7:40 pm Screening of Film & Panel Discussion
7:40 – 8:30 pm Reception

Tony-winning playwright David Henry Hwang’s comedy from Roundabout Theatre Company stars Daniel Dae Kim (“Lost,” “Hawaii Five-0”) as an Asian American playwright who protests yellowface casting in the blockbuster musical “Miss Saigon,” only to mistakenly cast a white actor as the Asian lead in his own play. The repercussions resonate in this farce about the complexities of race.

Filmed in November 2024 and directed by Leigh Silverman (“Violet,” “Suffs”), “Yellow Face” is an “is-he-or-isn’t-he” comedy of identity, show business and autobiography.

Following the screening, there will be a panel discussion featuring Francis Jue, winner of the 2025 Tony Award, and director Leigh Silverman.

Speakers

• Francis Jue, Winner of the 2025 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play
  Cast Member: HYH & Others
• Leigh Silverman. Director of YELLOW FACE

Remarks by

• Hon. Denny Chin, Senior Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
  Lawrence W. Pierce Distinguished Jurist in Residence, Fordham Law School
  Co-Director, Center on Asian Americans and the Law

Moderated by

• Professor Thomas Lee, Leitner Family Professor of International Law, Fordham Law School, Co-Director, Center on Asian Americans and the Law