DC Theater Arts: Fresh off his 2025 Tony win as Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance as HYH in David Henry Hwang’s Yellow Face (which also earned him an Outer Critics Circle Award), there’s no end in sight for Francis Jue‘s proverbial fifteen minutes of fame; it’s been exponentially increasing since he participated in the high-school drama program at St. Ignatius College Preparatory in his native San Francisco, received his BA at Yale University, and first appeared in NYC in 1984, in the Broadway production of Pacific Overtures
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I really like to read or watch interviews because they remind me that these people are just people. They normally talk about the process of their certain movies or projects, and I like to hear about how different people go about things and how the process is different for everyone. I wasn't able to see Yellow Face, but I did watch the Tonys and saw when Francis won his award. His speech was just really inspiring, and I remember him saying something about putting on this show focused on race in the society we are in today. This stuck out to me because, as someone who is a part of the minority, the idea of challenging societal norms and highlighting different cultures is important in this day in age. It was interesting to get to read this interview and see that he is just a person navigating his career in the arts like so many others are.
I really enjoyed reading about his personal experience with winning a Tony award. I was surprised to read that he was so shocked that he could have one. His work has been very motivational and has been monumental within the asian community. It was hard to read that the best part of his job was that he could let others see the humanity of asian people. As I know, racism has a big looming place in the arts and our world, but it is always hard to get a reminder of just how horrible the arts and the world can be. I think that it is interesting that his favorite thing is the fact that in live performances, anything can happen. Which, for me, is one of my least favorite things about live performances and art. I mean, anything can happen, meaning anything can go wrong, and you can never be fully prepared.
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