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Philip Kan Gotanda, noted playwright and filmmaker, listens as a student reads a monologue in his Fundamentals of Playwriting class at UC Berkeley in Berkeley, Calif., on Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014. (Kristopher Skinner/Bay Area News Group)
From left: Philip Kan Gotanda, Lysley Tenorio, Sean San Jose. Photo by Ryan Montgomery.
Ogie Zulueta appears in “Remember the I-Hotel,” a one-act play based on a story by Lysley Tenorio and onstage at American Conservatory Theater’s Strand. (Courtesy Kevin Berne)
After the War Blues
The Dream of Kitamura
The Dream of Kitamura
The Dream of Kitamura
Remember the I-Hotel
Lillian (Sarang Cho) and Chet (Intae Kim) the central perhaps lovers to be in Philip Kan Gotanda's "After the War Blues" at UC Berkeley's Zellerbach Playhouse – Courtesy of Ryan Montgomery / SF GATE
Olga (Schuyler Girion, left), Lillian (Sarang Cho) and Mr. Oji (Tony Jin) see their first TV in Philip Kan Gotanda's "After the War Blues" at UC Berkeley's Zellerbach Playhouse – Courtesy of Ryan Montgomery / SF GATE
Playwright Philip Kan Gotanda. (Photo by Lana Cosic)
Philip Kan Gotanda, noted playwright and filmmaker, lectures to students in his Fundamentals of Playwriting class at UC Berkeley in Berkeley, Calif., on Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014. (Kristopher Skinner/Bay Area News Group)
Playwright Philip Kan Gotanda at a rehearsal of his new adaptation of "Rashomon" with Ubuntu Theater Project // Credit: Simone Finney / Ubuntu Theater Project
Cynthia Wallis (1988)
ACT - philip.Kan.Gotanda.jpg
1967 Giaconda Smile Tod Ruhstaller, Steve Huff, Doug Jasa.
JGuare.jpg
George Takei, me, Pat Morita
PKG_General Shinseki.jpg
Tamlyn Tomita
Mako
PKG, Gedde Watanabe, Pat Suzuki JPG-2.jpg
Pat Suzuki
Stan Lai
PKG, Ben Fong Torres .jpg
PKG, Daniel Tani.jpg
Philip Kan Gotanda as Speaker
Gotanda as Speaker
photo26 lightroom edit.jpg
David Hwang and PKG-2.jpg
Tony Kushner
PKG Kathryn Layng-2.jpg
Stew
Playwright Philip Kan Gotanda (center) discusses rehearsal of Gotanda's "After the War Blues" at UC Berkeley's Zellerbach Playhouse with actors Intae Kim (left) and Dela Aisha Meskienyar. – Courtesy of Ryan Montgomery / SF GATE
Emily Kuroda and Sala Iwamatsu in Philip Kan Gotanda’s Ballad of Yachiyo. Photo courtesy of Southwest Repertory Theatre.
Emily Kuroda as Okusan and Yunjin Kim as Yachiyo. Photos from Philip Kan Gotanda’s Ballad of Yachiyo. Photos by Patrick Bennett. Courtesy of Seattle Repertory Theater.
Sab Shimono as Papa and Yunjin Kim as Yachiyo.
2007 Cover of the American Theater Mag
Cosimo and me at the Faculty Club doing martinis
P1080693.jpg
San Francisco 2016
Pool of Unknown Wonders
gotanda event photoshop edit.png
Luis Valdez
P1080713.jpg
P1080738.jpg
IMG_5486.jpg
NY for Dramatists Guild Foundation Legacy Playwrights Initiative AwardnIMG_0674.jpg
IMG_1592.jpg
Carlyle Brown, Constance Congdon, Philip Kan Gotanda Inside the Dramatists Guild Foundations 60th Anniversary Gala
Pool of Unknown Wonders
Pool of Unknown Wonders
Fish Head Soup
Danny Glover and June Angela star in The Robey Theatre Company and East West Players’ production of Philip Kan Gotanda’s Yohen, directed by Ben Guillory. Photo by Michael Lamont.
GotandaPottery-2.jpg
GotandaPottery-1.jpg
GotandaPottery-3.jpg
GotandaPottery-4.jpg
GotandaPottery-5.jpg
GotandaPottery-6.jpg
The Wash Cast, (Standing L-R) Jodi Long, Shizuko Hoshi, Carol Honda, James Ishida, Geroge Takei, Diane Emiko Takei; (2nd Row L-R) Sab Shimono, Nobu McCarthy.
billy asai on bass.jpg
joeozu.png
Rashomon by Philip Kan Gotanda. Ubuntu Theater Project in Oakland. Images by: Victor Cordell - Sep 04, 2017.
June Angela as Sumi Washington in The Robey Theatre Company and East West Players’ production of Philip Kan Gotanda’s Yohen, directed by Ben Guillory. Photo by Michael Lamont.
Danny Glover and June Angela star in The Robey Theatre Company and East West Players’ production of Philip Kan Gotanda’s Yohen, directed by Ben Guillory. Photo by Michael Lamont.
Danny Glover and June Angela star in The Robey Theatre Company and East West Players’ production of Philip Kan Gotanda’s Yohen, directed by Ben Guillory. Photo by Michael Lamont.
With David Henry Hwang at the Playwright Foundation.
Gotanda.jpg
Manzanar in rehearsal.
With Dr. Jim Hirabayashi (left) and Hiroshi Kashiwagi (right) visiting Tule Lake.
Manzanar in rehearsal.
Manzanar in rehearsal.
ucb_chg_1635.jpg
Manzanar in rehearsal.
Manzanar in rehearsal.
Manzanar in rehearsal.
Manzanar in rehearsal.
Manzanar in rehearsal.
gotanda_1.jpg
gotanda_3.jpg
gotanda_2.jpg
Cosmo & me Growling 75F3498A-63D3-4233-BF80-C4521EDD8186_1_105_c (1).JPG
photo(3).JPG
connie congden.jpeg
Being Inducted IMG_2766.jpg
Oskar, Diane, Me IMG_2733 (1).jpg
Oskar Eustis IMG_2730.jpg
John Lithgow IMG_2727.jpg
Goodwin Liu CA Supreme Court. IMG_2769.jpg
__Maxine Viet Nguyen by Laurie McDonoughImage.jpeg
IMG_5474.jpeg
IMG_5489.JPG
IMG_2993.JPG
gotanda-mg-3.jpeg
gotanda-mg-2.JPG
gotanda_mg-1.jpeg
IMG_2758.JPG
IMG_2761.JPG
Philip, Eric, Crystal.
12-15 EWP YDYD opening.jpeg
Boz Skaggs 10-25.jpeg
Philip & Connie Congden.
Philip and CA Supreme Court Goodwin Liu.
Ann Cattaneo, Philip Kan Gotanda.
Philip Kan Gotanda, Maxine Hong Kingston, Viet Thanh Nguyen.
Philip & Paula Vogel.
Yohen
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5C34FDF1-5502-43AD-AEC8-E024CE24A6A4_1_105_c.jpeg
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Tamlyn and B.D. .JPG
***Cosimo DT Monterey.jpeg
50D853F0-96B9-4374-A6C1-5F1CE947F692_1_105_c.jpeg
Diane, Director and Lily.jpg
Brad, DT, P, George.JPG
Cosmo eats Pasta.jpeg
EWP-SistersMatsumoto_BWPhoto_Press_JanFeb2002_002.jpg
2A-YDYD BRT 1.jpg
Me, Dale, Dan Yoshi's Hiroshima Concert IMG_1821.JPG
tempImageTRYMF4.png
4-26 JALD alumni CG Otsuki.jpg
2025 Opera Conference Omni Hotel IMG_3199.jpeg
2024 Theater Mu AA Conference 7G-Amy David Philip Rick.jpeg
A13246D8-8034-404A-AEFF-B2C27A7B39DE_1_105_c.jpeg
David's daughter Grace.jpeg
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Neil Speaking.jpeg
NY 12-25 IMG_6656 2.jpeg
Mochi.jpeg
Gotanda Racehorse IMG_4111.jpeg
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* Dt BdayIMG_3108.jpg
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David's daughter Grace.jpeg
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A13246D8-8034-404A-AEFF-B2C27A7B39DE_1_105_c.jpeg
2024 Theater Mu AA Conference 7G-Amy David Philip Rick.jpeg
2A-YDYD BRT 1.jpg
JamaicaWash-cover-ai-02.jpg
ucb_chg_1635.jpg
Image 11-19-23 at 12.32 PM.jpg
NY for Dramatists Guild Foundation Legacy Playwrights Initiative AwardnIMG_0674.jpg
Screen Shot 2022-08-07 at 9.04.48 AM.png
bomb magazine.jpeg
drinking tea screenshot.jpg
both eyes open image.jpg
philip kan gotanda - Jewel Lake.jpeg
the kiss.jpg
Chang-and-Eng-WEB.jpg
1001164464-size-exact-300x0.jpg
thewindcriesmary_asquared.jpg
AngryRedDrum.jpg
philip_kan_gotanda_WEB_title.jpg
PKG++Green+Garage+clutch+jkt.jpg
IMG_5103.jpg
IMG_0622.jpg
IMG_0628.jpg
photo12.jpg
photo8.jpg
IMG_2660.jpg
SJM-L-GOTANDA-0913-01.jpg
photo30.jpg
photo46.jpg
FullSizeRender3.jpg
Man_theater.png
gotanda_rotator.jpg
ben_guillory.jpg
danny_glover.jpg
mother_of_earth_sculpture_by_nandor_wagner_ostrom_street_2017_budapest.jpg
mail (8).jpg
BEO+11-19+dale+ben+diane.+img_0297.jpg
PKG++Green+Garage+clutch+jkt.jpg
IMG_5103.jpg
IMG_0624.jpg
mother_of_earth_sculpture_by_nandor_wagner_ostrom_street_2017_budapest.jpg
Paris a long time ago 1B592359-6592-4903-9FF2-E26F32759C6F_1_105_c.jpeg
Philip Kan Gotanda, noted playwright and filmmaker, listens as a student reads a monologue in his Fundamentals of Playwriting class at UC Berkeley in Berkeley, Calif., on Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014. (Kristopher Skinner/Bay Area News Group)
From left: Philip Kan Gotanda, Lysley Tenorio, Sean San Jose. Photo by Ryan Montgomery.
Ogie Zulueta appears in “Remember the I-Hotel,” a one-act play based on a story by Lysley Tenorio and onstage at American Conservatory Theater’s Strand. (Courtesy Kevin Berne)
After the War Blues
The Dream of Kitamura
The Dream of Kitamura
The Dream of Kitamura
Remember the I-Hotel
Lillian (Sarang Cho) and Chet (Intae Kim) the central perhaps lovers to be in Philip Kan Gotanda's "After the War Blues" at UC Berkeley's Zellerbach Playhouse – Courtesy of Ryan Montgomery / SF GATE
Olga (Schuyler Girion, left), Lillian (Sarang Cho) and Mr. Oji (Tony Jin) see their first TV in Philip Kan Gotanda's "After the War Blues" at UC Berkeley's Zellerbach Playhouse – Courtesy of Ryan Montgomery / SF GATE
Playwright Philip Kan Gotanda. (Photo by Lana Cosic)
Philip Kan Gotanda, noted playwright and filmmaker, lectures to students in his Fundamentals of Playwriting class at UC Berkeley in Berkeley, Calif., on Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014. (Kristopher Skinner/Bay Area News Group)
Playwright Philip Kan Gotanda at a rehearsal of his new adaptation of "Rashomon" with Ubuntu Theater Project // Credit: Simone Finney / Ubuntu Theater Project
Cynthia Wallis (1988)
ACT - philip.Kan.Gotanda.jpg
1967 Giaconda Smile Tod Ruhstaller, Steve Huff, Doug Jasa.
JGuare.jpg
George Takei, me, Pat Morita
PKG_General Shinseki.jpg
Tamlyn Tomita
Mako
PKG, Gedde Watanabe, Pat Suzuki JPG-2.jpg
Pat Suzuki
Stan Lai
PKG, Ben Fong Torres .jpg
PKG, Daniel Tani.jpg
Philip Kan Gotanda as Speaker
Gotanda as Speaker
photo26 lightroom edit.jpg
David Hwang and PKG-2.jpg
Tony Kushner
PKG Kathryn Layng-2.jpg
Stew
Playwright Philip Kan Gotanda (center) discusses rehearsal of Gotanda's "After the War Blues" at UC Berkeley's Zellerbach Playhouse with actors Intae Kim (left) and Dela Aisha Meskienyar. – Courtesy of Ryan Montgomery / SF GATE
Emily Kuroda and Sala Iwamatsu in Philip Kan Gotanda’s Ballad of Yachiyo. Photo courtesy of Southwest Repertory Theatre.
Emily Kuroda as Okusan and Yunjin Kim as Yachiyo. Photos from Philip Kan Gotanda’s Ballad of Yachiyo. Photos by Patrick Bennett. Courtesy of Seattle Repertory Theater.
Sab Shimono as Papa and Yunjin Kim as Yachiyo.
2007 Cover of the American Theater Mag
Cosimo and me at the Faculty Club doing martinis
P1080693.jpg
San Francisco 2016
Pool of Unknown Wonders
gotanda event photoshop edit.png
Luis Valdez
P1080713.jpg
P1080738.jpg
IMG_5486.jpg
NY for Dramatists Guild Foundation Legacy Playwrights Initiative AwardnIMG_0674.jpg
IMG_1592.jpg
Carlyle Brown, Constance Congdon, Philip Kan Gotanda Inside the Dramatists Guild Foundations 60th Anniversary Gala
Pool of Unknown Wonders
Pool of Unknown Wonders
Fish Head Soup
Danny Glover and June Angela star in The Robey Theatre Company and East West Players’ production of Philip Kan Gotanda’s Yohen, directed by Ben Guillory. Photo by Michael Lamont.
GotandaPottery-2.jpg
GotandaPottery-1.jpg
GotandaPottery-3.jpg
GotandaPottery-4.jpg
GotandaPottery-5.jpg
GotandaPottery-6.jpg
The Wash Cast, (Standing L-R) Jodi Long, Shizuko Hoshi, Carol Honda, James Ishida, Geroge Takei, Diane Emiko Takei; (2nd Row L-R) Sab Shimono, Nobu McCarthy.
billy asai on bass.jpg
joeozu.png
Rashomon by Philip Kan Gotanda. Ubuntu Theater Project in Oakland. Images by: Victor Cordell - Sep 04, 2017.
June Angela as Sumi Washington in The Robey Theatre Company and East West Players’ production of Philip Kan Gotanda’s Yohen, directed by Ben Guillory. Photo by Michael Lamont.
Danny Glover and June Angela star in The Robey Theatre Company and East West Players’ production of Philip Kan Gotanda’s Yohen, directed by Ben Guillory. Photo by Michael Lamont.
Danny Glover and June Angela star in The Robey Theatre Company and East West Players’ production of Philip Kan Gotanda’s Yohen, directed by Ben Guillory. Photo by Michael Lamont.
With David Henry Hwang at the Playwright Foundation.
Gotanda.jpg
Manzanar in rehearsal.
With Dr. Jim Hirabayashi (left) and Hiroshi Kashiwagi (right) visiting Tule Lake.
Manzanar in rehearsal.
Manzanar in rehearsal.
ucb_chg_1635.jpg
Manzanar in rehearsal.
Manzanar in rehearsal.
Manzanar in rehearsal.
Manzanar in rehearsal.
Manzanar in rehearsal.
gotanda_1.jpg
gotanda_3.jpg
gotanda_2.jpg
Cosmo & me Growling 75F3498A-63D3-4233-BF80-C4521EDD8186_1_105_c (1).JPG
photo(3).JPG
connie congden.jpeg
Being Inducted IMG_2766.jpg
Oskar, Diane, Me IMG_2733 (1).jpg
Oskar Eustis IMG_2730.jpg
John Lithgow IMG_2727.jpg
Goodwin Liu CA Supreme Court. IMG_2769.jpg
__Maxine Viet Nguyen by Laurie McDonoughImage.jpeg
IMG_5474.jpeg
IMG_5489.JPG
IMG_2993.JPG
gotanda-mg-3.jpeg
gotanda-mg-2.JPG
gotanda_mg-1.jpeg
IMG_2758.JPG
IMG_2761.JPG
Philip, Eric, Crystal.
12-15 EWP YDYD opening.jpeg
Boz Skaggs 10-25.jpeg
Philip & Connie Congden.
Philip and CA Supreme Court Goodwin Liu.
Ann Cattaneo, Philip Kan Gotanda.
Philip Kan Gotanda, Maxine Hong Kingston, Viet Thanh Nguyen.
Philip & Paula Vogel.
Yohen
philip_writing.png
5C34FDF1-5502-43AD-AEC8-E024CE24A6A4_1_105_c.jpeg
IMG_4844.jpeg
Tamlyn and B.D. .JPG
***Cosimo DT Monterey.jpeg
50D853F0-96B9-4374-A6C1-5F1CE947F692_1_105_c.jpeg
Diane, Director and Lily.jpg
tempImagermMGkU.png
Brad, DT, P, George.JPG
Cosmo eats Pasta.jpeg
EWP-SistersMatsumoto_BWPhoto_Press_JanFeb2002_002.jpg
2A-YDYD BRT 1.jpg
Me, Dale, Dan Yoshi's Hiroshima Concert IMG_1821.JPG
tempImageTRYMF4.png
4-26 JALD alumni CG Otsuki.jpg
2025 Opera Conference Omni Hotel IMG_3199.jpeg
2024 Theater Mu AA Conference 7G-Amy David Philip Rick.jpeg
A13246D8-8034-404A-AEFF-B2C27A7B39DE_1_105_c.jpeg
David's daughter Grace.jpeg
EE3967AB-1BC9-4946-A5CC-DF249A0F7CC8_1_105_c.jpeg
IMG_4881 (1).jpg
tempImageeGJvn4.png
tempImages40iBB.png
Neil Speaking.jpeg
NY 12-25 IMG_6656 2.jpeg
Mochi.jpeg
92520E64-5BCE-43B6-9F15-1A912C194329_1_102_o.jpeg
Gotanda Racehorse IMG_4111.jpeg
tempImagerKaSRB.png
IMG_2931 4.JPG
* Dt BdayIMG_3108.jpg
IMG_2931 4.JPG
* Dt BdayIMG_3108.jpg
IMG_4881 (1).jpg
Neil Speaking.jpeg
tempImageeGJvn4.png
David's daughter Grace.jpeg
tempImages40iBB.png
EE3967AB-1BC9-4946-A5CC-DF249A0F7CC8_1_105_c.jpeg
A13246D8-8034-404A-AEFF-B2C27A7B39DE_1_105_c.jpeg
2024 Theater Mu AA Conference 7G-Amy David Philip Rick.jpeg
2A-YDYD BRT 1.jpg
JamaicaWash-cover-ai-02.jpg
ucb_chg_1635.jpg
Image 11-19-23 at 12.32 PM.jpg
NY for Dramatists Guild Foundation Legacy Playwrights Initiative AwardnIMG_0674.jpg
Screen Shot 2022-08-07 at 9.04.48 AM.png
bomb magazine.jpeg
drinking tea screenshot.jpg
both eyes open image.jpg
philip kan gotanda - Jewel Lake.jpeg
the kiss.jpg
Chang-and-Eng-WEB.jpg
1001164464-size-exact-300x0.jpg
thewindcriesmary_asquared.jpg
AngryRedDrum.jpg
philip_kan_gotanda_WEB_title.jpg
PKG++Green+Garage+clutch+jkt.jpg
IMG_5103.jpg
IMG_0622.jpg
IMG_0628.jpg
photo12.jpg
photo8.jpg
IMG_2660.jpg
SJM-L-GOTANDA-0913-01.jpg
photo30.jpg
photo46.jpg
FullSizeRender3.jpg
Man_theater.png
gotanda_rotator.jpg
ben_guillory.jpg
danny_glover.jpg
mother_of_earth_sculpture_by_nandor_wagner_ostrom_street_2017_budapest.jpg
unnamed.jpg
BEO+11-19+dale+ben+diane.+img_0297.jpg
PKG++Green+Garage+clutch+jkt.jpg
IMG_5103.jpg
IMG_0624.jpg
mail (8).jpg
mother_of_earth_sculpture_by_nandor_wagner_ostrom_street_2017_budapest.jpg
photo46.jpg
Paris a long time ago 1B592359-6592-4903-9FF2-E26F32759C6F_1_105_c.jpeg