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THERE is a bit of Filipino infl uence in each play Fil-Am theatre director Victor Maog (May-og) directs.
"Every story that I do is a Filipino story," said Maog to the Asian Journal. "Everything that I do is inherently Filipino. Everything that I do is inherently about the values of Catholicism or my family, or the Maog name. All of those things converge when I approach a play even if it’s a western or Shakespearean play, it’ll always be through a Filipino American lens."
Looking through a Fil-Am lens allows him to embrace the similarities and differences of the culture, he said.
It also allows him to soak in the culture so that the audience can better understand where the story and its infl uences are coming from.
"How do I take the audience to a whole new country and begin to acclimate and understand what the rules are?" Maog said. "How do I, through theater, begin to investigate my own cultural experiences and transform them into artistic expression? Understanding people’s history and their perspective is also very much important in telling a story."
This intellectual and in a way, method directing process is what makes Maog one of the nation’s rising theatre directors.
At 36, Maog has accomplished what few Fil-Am theatre directors have.
Born in Quezon City, he arrived in the US when he was six years old. He was raised in Union City, about 30 miles South East of San Francisco.
It was at James Logan High School where he would begin his theatre career. Under the tutelage of MacArthur Grant Awardee Tommie Lindsey, Maog excelled as a member of school’s Forensic or speech and debate team.
Lindsey suggested Maog to direct theatre plays.
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