Keith Johnson of InTheRedStyle and Jacqueline Wall w/CleanFreeFun interview ELLEN SEBASTIAN CHANG

Ellen Sebastian Chang is a director, writer and a creative consultant with the Zellerbach Family Fund’s Technical Assistance Program. Through Young Audiences of the Bay Area, she teaches play creation through out the Bay Area . Ms. Sebastian Chang was the cofounder and artistic director of LIFE ON THE WATER, a national and internationally known presenting and producing organization at San Francisco’s Fort Mason Center from 1986 through 1995. Ms. Sebastian Chang has had successful working collaborations with such solo performers as Awela Makeba(“Rage-Is not a one day thing”), Anne Galjour(“Okra”), Whoopi Goldberg(“Moms”), Holly Hughes(“No Trace of The Blonde”), Leonard Pitt(“Ned”), Bill Talen(“The Shape”) and Charlie Varron(consultation “Rush Limbaugh in Night School”). She has worked as an Artist in Residence and teacher, developing original stage productions at the following high schools in the Bay Area: “The Last Word”, Skyline High; “ICU: the children’s ward” Mt. Tamalpais; “The Hunger Artist” Redwood; “Hot Soup” The Urban School of SF and in Richmond High teaching dramatic writing and an acting workshop. She worked at The Urban School of San Francisco teaching technical theater and managing Gumption Theater from 1982 through 1986. Ms. Sebastian Chang is a recipient of funding from the NEA, Ford, Rockefeller and LEF Foundations, Arts Matter of New York, Zellerbach Family Fund and the California Arts Council. Fore More Information on Ellen please visit her link. http://www.kitka.org/calendar/ellen-sebastian-chang-bio.html