Alien Citizen: an earth odyssey is a funny and poignant one-woman show about growing up in the intersections of identity as a dual citizen of mixed heritage in Central America, North Africa, the Middle East, and New England. Written & Performed by Elizabeth Liang. Directed by Sofie Calderon. Click here for the Press Kit.
The stage production or "live" show has been retired. The stage tour of this story on identity and intersectionality ran from May 2013 to Summer 2019. It was filmed and can now be viewed on DVD or HD (streamable). Click here to BOOK Alien Citizen (the film) + filmmaker talk-back and/or workshop at your campus, conference, theater, or event.
"Strikes such a profound and memorable chord..."
Click This Link for Williams College's Rave Review of the Live Show
Click This Link for Shortcut to Live Show's Trailer & Excerpts!
A SAMPLE OF AUDIENCE MEMBERS' RESPONSES
What an engaging, poignant and entertaining show! What a delicious, fulfilling evening of theatre! How refreshing your voice is, how interesting (even educational).
-Marilyn Tokuda, former Arts Education Director, East West Players
Elizabeth Liang's comic timing, flair for the telling detail, massive range of emotive ability, and willingness to wrench open the wounds we all have are what first strike the viewer. But what remains is the knowledge that we gain from all great art: we are not alone.
-Dr. Wendy Laura Belcher, Princeton University
It was profound for all of us...brings laughter and tears to anyone who has lived this life or knows others who have. It is a great show, presenting the gifts as well as the challenges.
-Ruth Van Reken, author of Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds
Click This Link for Williams College's Rave Review of the Live Show
Click This Link for Shortcut to Live Show's Trailer & Excerpts!
A SAMPLE OF AUDIENCE MEMBERS' RESPONSES
What an engaging, poignant and entertaining show! What a delicious, fulfilling evening of theatre! How refreshing your voice is, how interesting (even educational).
-Marilyn Tokuda, former Arts Education Director, East West Players
Elizabeth Liang's comic timing, flair for the telling detail, massive range of emotive ability, and willingness to wrench open the wounds we all have are what first strike the viewer. But what remains is the knowledge that we gain from all great art: we are not alone.
-Dr. Wendy Laura Belcher, Princeton University
It was profound for all of us...brings laughter and tears to anyone who has lived this life or knows others who have. It is a great show, presenting the gifts as well as the challenges.
-Ruth Van Reken, author of Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds
SYNOPSIS
Elizabeth Liang, like President Obama, is a Third Culture Kid or a TCK. Third Culture Kids are the children of international business people, global educators, diplomats, missionaries, the military -- anyone whose family has relocated overseas, usually because of a job placement. Liang weaves humorous stories about growing up as an Alien Citizen abroad with American commercial jingles providing her soundtrack through language confusion, first love, culture shock, Clark Gable, and sandstorms…
Our protagonist deals with the decisions every global nomad has to make repeatedly: to adapt or to simply cope; to build a bridge or to just tolerate. From being a Guatemalan-American teen in North Africa to attending a women’s college in the USA, Alien Citizen reflects her experience that neither one was necessarily easier than the other. She realizes that girls across the world are growing into womanhood in environments that can be hostile to females (including the USA). How does a young girl cope as a border/culture/language/religion straddler in country after country that feels "other" to her when she is the “other?” Where is the line between respecting others and betraying yourself?
Humor is a great survival mechanism! And friends make all the difference.
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