Event Information

  • Event Date:
  • Event Time: 7:00 pm
  • Studio: The Auditorium at CLARA
  • Location: The Annex at CLARA (2420 N Street #180 Sacramento, CA 95816). The first building on your right when entering through the N and 25th street gate.

Join Dev Luthra on a one-hour odyssey through multiple countries, cultures, and characters—filled with affecting words, deft movement, and wit. He’s the Secret Asian Man. His mission: To figure out where the heck he belongs!

Who am I? Is the way I am seen enough? Who are you? Is it enough for you? How can I bring the way I am seen closer to how I experience myself? This play uncovers some of my struggle to embody these questions.

As I strive to engage race, culture and my connection with my Kenyan-born Punjabi father, Secret Asian Man has become my own nickname for myself.
Secret Asian Man is my solo show storying my experience being raised as a white passing person of South Asian and European descent.

Free admission. Samosas and chai will be served!

 

Artist Bio:
Dev Luthra trained at East 15 Acting School, London, England and at Shakespeare and Company in Lenox, MA. Acting credits include Attorney/The Gaaga, Sorin/Seagull (Arlekin Players); Burbage, Jaggard/Book of Will (Hub Theatre Company); Iago/Othello (Dreamrole Players — EPC production); Antigonus, Old Shepherd, Bottom/The Winter’s Tale and Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bay Colony Shakespeare Company), Dance Teacher Pat/Dance Nation, Father/Brilliant Adventures and Azdak/Caucasian Chalk Circle (Apollinaire Theatre Company), Mr. Biedermann/Firebugs (Huellas Vivas), Orsino/Twelfth Night (Sun Valley Shakespeare Festival) Northumberland/Henry IV, parts 1 & 2 (Actors Shakespeare Project), Montherlant/N. Bonaparte (Pilgrim Theatre), Leonato/Much Ado About Nothing (Public Theatre). Dev teaches at Company One and Wheelock Family Theatre. His courses focus on devised theatre, acting, and playwrighting. Dev also offers residences at schools throughout the area. He has taught acting and movement at Boston College and Emerson College and at Boston University’s Prison Education Program. Dev served as the Artistic Director of And Still We Rise Productions, a theatre company committed to the advocacy of the rights of people impacted by the prison system. He is a contributing author to The Heart and Soul of Psychotherapy, S. Linden, ed. Macbeth’s