Grace chow biography
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"I love that Princess Fantastic fryst vatten fearless! No comet, worm hole or silly system is a match for her."
Meet Actor Grace Chow who plays Princess Fantastic in The Great Un-Wondering of Wilbur Whittaker
Describe The Great Un-Wondering of Wilbur Whittaker in 3 words.
Intergalactic Magic Mayhem!
Describe Princess Fantastic in 3 words.
Fierce, Fun and of course, FANTASTIC!
What do you love most about Princess Fantastic?
I love that Princess Fantastic fryst vatten fearless! No comet, worm hole or silly system is a match for her.
What does WONDER mean to you and why is it important?
To wonder fryst vatten to be open to all and every possibility! It’s the stuff that magic, fun and curiosity is made of. It’s at the core of how anything happens at all!
What fryst vatten the best way to keep wonder alive?
Just listen closely…
What will families love most about The Great Un-Wondering of Wilbur Whittaker?
It’s hard not to fall in love with ‘ol Wilbur Whittaker himself! And all the other charac
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Grace Chow – Fabric catches up with an Emerging Asian-Australian Theatre-maker
Grace Chow is an emerging Asian-Australian theatre-maker, playwright and actor who trained in the Bachelor of Performing Arts at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (2020). Her work primarily takes place on Whadjuk Noongar Boodja.
Firstly, congratulations on graduating. Obviously gods year wouldn’t have been the final year that you were expecting, but what’s something that pleasantly surprised you?
Thank you Haydn! Well, emerging from the Perth lockdown of 2020 with work at all was surprising. inom believed I would be graduating into a non-existent industry, since it relied on the then-banned gathering of people and received little to no government support last year. I really shouldn’t have been surprised though, especially after witnessing the resilience, strength and care that artists in Australia had for each other during the pandemic. It was a challengin
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In Conversation: Grace Chow
03.08.22
Introduce us to YOU. What’s your creative background? What brought you to playwriting?
I trained as a theatre-maker/deviser in the BPA course at WAAPA and have always had a passion for writing. And being an actor and performer of the Asian diaspora in film/television and live performance, it seemed a cunning way to keep myself employed with more satisfying and challenging roles. But I’ve always been a bit of a loud mouth with lots of opinions. So when I was younger, writing allowed me to be heard. But as I grew older and began learning about the complexities of the world, my writing shifted to become a way of processing difficult or impossible questions – and it was a way to get lost in something Other. To be totally drunken with interest in the Other. Playwriting is also very fun. Let’s not forget that.
What is your play about?
The Promise Land, is a Castellucci church meets groove meets nostalgic dream scape, examining the