Fighting for Democracy

June 6, 2013
National Museum of American History

Info at: apanews.si.edu/2013/05/10/fighting-for-democracy/

Co-Artistic Directors:
David Bradley and Nora Quinn

Playwright:
Suli Holum

Director:
David Bradley

Production Designer:
Jorge Cousineau

Lighting Design and Technical Director:
Terry Smith

Sound Design and Original Music Composition:
Michael Kiley

Dramaturgy:
Alison Heishman and Makoto Hirano

Production Stage Manager:
Robin Stamey

Cast:
Janice Rowland, Justin Jain,
and Akeem Davis

America is a story that is being written everyday in the lives of its people. What is the story? And what do we learn from it?

In conjunction with the exhibition, I Want the Wide American Earth: An Asian Pacific American Story, currently on view at the National Museum of American History, the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center presents “Fighting for Democracy: Who is the ‘We in ‘We the People’?” This compelling stage performance created by the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia and produced collaboratively with Philadelphia’s premier theater artists, explores the themes of civil rights and democracy through the perspectives of seven diverse individuals whose lives and communities were forever changed by World War II. Fighting for Democracy reveals how World War II was a pivotal time in developing a broader understanding of our nation and its people.