Daniel Dae Kim will star in David Henry Hwang’s ‘Yellow Face’ next season, which will have a Broadway premiere in September.
‘Yellow Face’ is the roundabout debut for Hwang, a Tony Award winner and a three-time Pulitzer finalist.
The play will be directed by Tony nominee Leigh Silverman.
Inspired by real events, the play follows a playwright, protesting the casting of white actors playing Asian roles in Miss Saigon, and then mistakenly casting a white actor as an Asian lead in his own play.
The previews of the play will start at the newly renamed Todd Haimes Theatre, earlier known as American Airlines Theatre. The name was renamed after the death of the Roundabout Theatre Company’s artistic director in September 2024.
Kim is known for his work such as ‘Lost’, ‘Hawaii Five-O’, ‘Stowaway and Raya’ and ‘The Last Dragon’.
In 2017, the actor made his Broadway debut as King Siam in ‘The King and I’. He recently performed in ‘My Favorite Things’: The Rodgers and Hammerstein Anniversary Concert in London’s West End.
Kim starred in and produced an Audible adaptation of Yellow Face as part of a multi-project development deal with the company.
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