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GINGERLILY LOWE Actor, Director, Writer, Songwriter, Teaching Artist and San Diego’s ASIAN STORY THEATER

Gingerlily has been a teaching artist with Arts for Young Audiences, Institute for Arts Education, and currently is on the teaching artist staff for Guitars in the Classroom. She is the Education Director for ASIAN STORY THEATER, writing curriculum for the theater’s education component. Gingerlily is a retired classroom teacher spending many years in San Ysidro, San Diego Unified, and The Museum School where her students always participated in lots of integrated art projects and activities–including script and lyric writing.

She performed her radio theater play, “ASIAN SCARY THEATER” at the 2024 SAN DIEGO INTERNATIONAL FRINGE FESTIVAL. Her play “BOUND” was presented at the OLD GLOBE THEATER’S Powers New Voices Festival, 2023.  She was one of the Co-Directors and contributing song-writer’s for ASIAN STORY THEATER’s new musical “NOT WORKING” –which premiered fall 2021, and performed as Ah Toy, the second Chinese woman to arriving in the US in the 1800’s in ASIAN STORY THEATER’s, “THE GOLDEN RULE” at SAN DIEGO INTERNATIONAL FRINGE FESTIVAL, 2022.  

Gingerlily and her husband, Kent Brisby, performed together in the PLAYWRIGHTS PROJECT 38TH “PLAYS BY YOUNG WRITERS” 2023. Currently they are working together on the LAST CENSUS PROJECT, where they have produced/commissioned over 30 scripts of varying lengths (a small festival of the plays including AST’s “CENSUS AND CENSIBILITY” were part of the OLD GLOBE 360 PROJECT 2025) leading towards a culminating production in June 2025 of “THE LAST CENSUS.”

email Gingerlily@asianstorytheater.org

ABOUT ASIAN STORY THEATER

History & Future

Asian Story Theater began in 1989, dramatizing Chinese folk tales as a project sponsored by the San Diego Chinese Center. The first production was The White Snake (1989-90), presented at the Lyceum Space Theatre and subsequently toured to county schools, libraries, and recreation centers. In 1991 the company staged its first adaptation based on the 16th century fantasy novel Journey to the West, featuring the Monkey King with additional productions following each year. In 1995 the company incorporated as the Asian Story Theater, independent of the San Diego Chinese Center, to diversify programming and expand touring operations to San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Each year since, we have produced at least one production in pursuit of our mission. Touring and scale of production has varied depending on funding, talent, and venue availability. Recent years have led to increasingly diverse programs, including a full-length musical about the artist Paul Gauguin (PRICK: The Musical Paul Gauguin, November 2011-May 2012), as well as partnering to produce a pilot television episode, based on our 2006 project SHAVE ICE (December 2013). We are also committed to continuing a series of annual touring theater productions related to the Lunar New Year Celebrations, presenting WHEN THE TIGER SMOKED A PIPE, for Year of the Tiger.

WHEN THE TIGER SMOKED A PIPE, for Year of the Tiger.

We continue to explore new production partners and collaborators, such as for WHAT ARE YOU? (2019) and THE GOLDEN RULE, 2020-2022, NOT WORKING 2022- a new original musical featuring songs from our BIPOC creative community about our shared experiences during COVID, THE COFFEE PLAYS 2023 celebrating coffee stories and coffee culture around the world, and our latest endeavors Asian SCARY Theater 2023/2024 a radio theater project with “chicken-skin” storytelling and TWO DRAGONS 2024 featuring a Balinese naga shadow puppet play and a radio theater style dragon story from China. WHERE WE LAY OUR SORROWS DOWN 2024 a Cultivating Joy project

In 2024 ASIAN STORY THEATER in collaboration with TEATRO MASCARA MAGICA and SAN DIEGO BLACK ENSEMBLE is developing a new program about the census, to be presented in 2025.

Asian Story Theater http://AsianStoryTheater.org/