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Stories
Stories, collected by city and year
True stories of the Asian American experience, told live by the people who lived them. Each production keeps its own collection. This site publishes a summary of each story rather than a transcript.
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By production
- Now inviting storiesSeattle · 2027
Seattle, we’d love to hear your story. A memory. A moment. Someone who stays with you.
Share a Seattle story 
Fifteen storiesBainbridge Island · 2026Told at Bainbridge Island Museum of Art on May 17, 2026.
View the Bainbridge 2026 collection
Collection in progressBainbridge Island · 2025We’re gathering the stories and photographs from this production.
View the Bainbridge 2025 collection
Bainbridge Island · 2026
A guide to the frames on the wall
Every frame in the room opens toward a larger life. Use this index to move between the visual scene and the fuller summaries.
- 1. Harold & CrisalmaA love story carried across childhood, war, memory, and migration
- 2. Stephanie ReeseA performer carrying family sacrifice into every song
- 3. Steve FongBelonging, citizenship, and the moment identity changes shape
- 4. Gina CorpuzPoetry as truth-telling, resistance, and becoming
- 5. Clarence MoriwakiA childhood wound and the long shadow of racism
- 6. Felomina Flores SalangaA mother, a community, and the spirit of bayanihan
- 7. Sam OmotoCamp, war, Hiroshima, and the stubborn work of survival
- 8. Akiko OmotoA daughter honoring her mother with tenderness and care
- 9. Jan FongA wedding, a dress, and the joy of beginning again
- 10. Sara’s Adoption StoryAdoption, China, identity, and loving a child into herself
- 11. Emma & Grandpa KeizoA granddaughter remembering the man who kept Japan close
- 12. Mere & JasonRomance, family history, and the meeting of two worlds
- 13. Frank TsuchiyaIncarceration, impossible choices, and citizenship reclaimed
- 14. Larry NakataTrust, business, and community after wartime injustice
- 15. The Manzanar TableBeauty, silence, and resilience carried in one family artifact
More voices still to join the wall
These stories belong in the larger world of The Asian Monologues and can be added to the visual room as portraits, artifacts, or new frames become ready to share.
- Giselle “Gigi” Vincent
- Anonymous Reflection
- Maya Guggenheimer