March 20, 2025 6:00-7:30

“an elephant in a family of lambs*: international and transracial adoption” 

Join us for this special pre-opening discussion of Sunhui Chang’s “the boiling” this event includes light bites and drinks.

Lisa Marie Rollins (writer, director, theater maker), John Brougher (Actor/Filmmaker, as Brian Wheeler  in “the boiling”) and Amy Mihyang Ginther (theater maker, accent /dialect designer & coach, and family preservation activist) come together to invite a critical conversation about art, migration, mystery and the politics of international & transracial adoption.

This event is made possible with the support of Creative Capital, Campo Santo, and The Magic Theatre.

John Lee Brougher is a Korean American adoptee actor, filmmaker, and advocate. He plays Brian Wheeler in the upcoming premiere of “the boiling” at Magic Theatre, and seeks to use storytelling to challenge our beliefs and values so that we can live as our most authentic, most empathetic, and kindest selves.

Amy Mihyang Ginther is a queer, transracially adopted Korean American theatremaker who specializes in autobiographical, verbatim, and documentary performance. She is an associate professor at UC Santa Cruz in the Department of Performance, Play & Design. Ginther’s award-winning play Homeful has been performed Off-Broadway, in San Francisco, and in London. Her recent work,  Mountains after Mountains (산 넘어 산): A Virtual Reality Experience, is an account of her 2013 illegal abortion in South Korea, an experience that deepened her solidarity with generations of Korean women who are oppressed through imperialist and patriarchal forces. They are currently co-creating a meta-musical, No Danger of Winning, which examines race and representation in reality television. Ginther has designed accents for The Atlantic Theater Company, Aurora Theater Company, National Youth Theatre, and the Welcoming Ceremonies for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. 

amymihyangginther.com ig: @amihyang

Lisa Marie Rollins (she/her) is a writer, director and new work developer. She is a Member of Dramatist Guild and Stage Directors & Choreographers. She has been a writing resident with Djerassi, Hedgebrook, Joshua Tree Highlands Residency, CALLALOO London, VONA and more.  She received a Wallace Gerbode Playwright Award for a commission with Crowded Fire Theater for her new play KARA and is a 24-25 member of the Susan Fairbanks Playwright Cohort at TheaterWorks Silicon Valley. Selected directing & dramaturg credits include Sundance Institute Theatre Lab, New York Stage and Film, Berkeley Repertory Theater’s Ground Floor, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Arizona Theater Company, Hedgebrook Women’s Play Festival, Crowded Fire Theater, American Conservatory Theatre SF, Magic Theatre, new work by Lauren Gunderson, Geetha Reddy, Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm (CLIPPED- FX), and creative collaboration with comedic artist W. Kamau Bell (CNN). She has been a Community Arts Panelist for Zellerbach Family Foundation and has been a Resident Artist with Crowded Fire Theater and Brava Theater for Women in San Francisco.  She leads THE IRIS LAB, a new creative incubator & residency space for global majority & equity minded theater makers located at the University of California at Santa Cruz.

*Megha Transracial Adoptee