Artists Spotlight: Lava Alapai
Lava Alapai, playwright, actor, designer
Recipient RACC 2006 Project Grant
Lava Alapai is originally from Honolulu Hawaii via Okinawa, Japan. In Portland, she has been seen inPortland Center Stage's JAW/WEST festival reading of The Thugs, Tears of Joy Puppet Theatre's Anansi the Spider and Cinderella, and has toured with Oregon Children's What Would You Do an educational program dealing with bullying.
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| Lava Alapai in Mutt, 2007. |
Lava received a RACC Project Grant to write, produce and perform in an original play, Mutt (at right) in the fall of 2006. The bi-racial, semi-absurdist comedy skewers unspoken taboos specifically associated with mixed-race people. Previous to the performance, Lava conducted community forums on race and bi-racial identity at Lewis & Clark College, the University of Portland and Reflections Coffee House to inform her writing of the piece. It had a very successful, extended run at the Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center.
Lava has also toured nationally with Jim Henson's Bear in the Big Blue House as a puppeteer. She has done movies and television as well as theatre in Los Angeles and holds an M.F.A in acting from California Institute of the Arts.
Contact Information:
website: www.manyhatscollaboration.com
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Mary Bauer
Communications Associate
503.823.5426
mbauer@racc.org
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