TIGER STYLE! Audience Guide
Dig In to the world of Tiger Style!
Curated by Interim Artistic Director Bobby Kennedy, Community Engagement Manager Kristin Hammargren, Tiger Style! Cultural Consultant Michelle N. Huang, Artistic Producer Katie Galetti, & Tiger Style! Engagement & Dramaturgy Assistant Jeremy Pesigan.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- BEFORE THE SHOW
- Read, Watch, & Listen
- AFTER THE SHOW
- Share Your Thoughts on Social Media with #TigerStyleWT!
- Our Discussion Guide
- Synopsis of Tiger Style!
- LOOKING FOR MORE?
- Upcoming Events
- More to Read & Watch
BEFORE THE SHOW
READ
- A 2019 interview between playwright Mike Lew and Katie Ciszek from Olney Theatre Center, where Tiger Style! was being produced. Click to read the full interview.
- A 2016 interview between playwright Mike Lew and Raymond Lee, an actor in the LaJolla Playhouse production of Tiger Style! Click to read the full interview.
- Our Tiger Style! Dramaturgy packet, prepared by Michelle N. Huang, Jemery Pesigan, Bobby Kennedy, and Kristin Hammargren.
WATCH our interview with Tiger Style! Director, Brian Balcom!
LISTEN to the Tiger Style! Setting the Scene Podcast on Spotify and Anchor
and the Tiger Style! playlist, including music from pre and post-performances, curated by cast and creatives.
AFTER THE SHOW
- SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON SOCIAL MEDIA WITH #TigerStyleWT
- START THE CONVERSATION WITH OUR DISCUSSION GUIDE
- READ THE SYNOPSIS
LOOKING FOR MORE?
ATTEND ONE OF THESE EVENTS - To RSVP, click here.
- Show Your Stripes: An evening with some of Chicagoland’s best storytellers on October 11 at 7pm
- Youth Matinee Workshop: Around the World in 80 Games on October 15 at 3pm
- The Asian American Dream: A discussion of the Asian American experience in the United States on October 18 at 7pm
MORE TO READ - Fiction
- Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu – winner of the 2020 National Book Award, telling the story of Willis Wu who appears as Generic Asian Man on a TV show but longs for a leading role.
- Native Speaker by Chang-Rae Lee – Lee’s 1995 debut novel which won the PEN/Hemingway Award for its story of a Korean-American man and his attempts to connect with American society.
- Severance by Ling Ma – a 2018 satirical novel about the end of the world as seen through the eyes of a first generation Chinese American woman
- Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang – a 2017 collection of stories narrated by the daughters of Chinese immigrants, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
Non-fiction
- Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua – the 2011 memoir that popularized the term tiger parenting, sparked controversy, and inspired Mike Lew to write Tiger Style!
- The Woman Warrior and China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston – two award-winning books from 1976 and 1980 that combine personal memoir, family stories and Chinese myths to paint a portrait of generations of Chinese Americans.
- Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong – a 2020 autobiographical essay collection that won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
- Straight A’s: Asian American College Students in Their Own Words – a 2018 collection of reflections from current students at Harvard University on their experiences.
- The Making of Asian America: A History by Erika Lee – a 2015 history of Asian Americans in the United States, written by a third generation Chinese American.
Mike Lew's Plays
- Microcrisis – a 2010 comedy about a global economic meltdown.
- Bike America – a 2013 comedy about a cross-country bike trip.
- Tiger Style! – a 2015 comedy about tiger parenting and Asian American identity.
- Teenage Dick – a 2018 comic retelling of Shakespeare’s Richard III set in a high school.
Articles
- “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior” by Amy Chua – the 2011 Wall Street Journal essay that sparked all the controversy about Chua’s tiger parenting memoir.
- At Home In Asian America - a collection of essays published in New York Magazine in September 2022.
- “Asian Americans Are Still Caught in the Trap of the ‘Model Minority’ Stereotype. And It Creates Inequality for All” by Viet Thanh Nguyen – a 2020 TIME magazine article by the Vietnamese-American author of The Sympathizer, a 2016 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
- “America Was Eager For Chinese Immigrants. What Happened?” by Michael Luo – a 2021 The New Yorker article about the discrimination that led to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.
- Asian Americans - a 2020 PBS five-part documentary series that won a Peabody Award.
- The satirical video “What kind of Asian are you?” - which has over 10 million views on Youtube.
- Crazy Rich Asians – one of two examples of a Hollywood romantic comedy featuring Asian characters cited in Tiger Style!
- To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before – the other example of a Hollywood romantic comedy featuring Asian characters cited in Tiger Style!
- The Farewell – a 2019 film written and directed by the Chinese American filmmaker Lulu Wang about a family returning to China to visit the dying family matriarch.
- The Asian American Dream Panel conducted at Writers Theatre
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