Here on This Bridge

Monologues by Josie Seid, Samson Syharath, Yasmin Ruvalcaba, Heather Raffo, Bonnie Ratner, Roberta Hunte and Dmae Roberts

Directed by: Catherine Ming T’ien Duffly
Assistant Director/Props Design: Abigail Shrader
Stage Manager: Danny Rosales
Lighting Design: Claire Zaro
Costume Design: Lila Yang
Sound Design: Joe Kye
Dramaturg: Dmae Roberts

Produced by MediaRites and Theatre Diaspora as part of Portland’s Fertile Ground Festival

January 24-27 and February 7-10, 2019 at Portland State University’s Boiler Room Theatre

Photos by Alex Haslett

This show was the first full production of Theatre Diaspora (Portland’s only AAPI theatre company) and was born of a desire to bridge divides in Oregon communities by creating art that would inspire community dialogues. The series of monologues sought to find a common thread of intersectionality of race with gender, sexual orientation and national origin to bring much needed empathy.