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Shuffled! Nancy Yap
Shuffled! is a new feature on BPRLive, in which we ask some of our favorite people on the scene to set their mp3 player of choice to random, and tell us about the first few songs that they hear.
Today’s Shuffler: Nancy Yap
Nancy Yap began her career as an artist manager at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop (AAWW) in New York City. While working as bookstore manager at AAWW in 1999, she began marketing and booking an Asian American poetry collective named the feedBack poets, a group of ten performers that included the young versions of Beau Sia, Ishle Yi Park, Taiyo Na, F. Omar Telan, and others.
Since then she has worked on a variety of projects from organizing a monthly open mic for Asian American poets named (Re)collection to target marketing for the 2003 Tony Award-winning “Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry Jam” on Broadway.
She continues to represent artists that enable her to work closely with the non-profit community while drawing the attention of mainstream America. She currently represents Suheir Hammad, Denizen Kane, Beau Sia, and the Visionaries. In conjunction with the Human Writes Project and the Latino Theater Company, she is developing a series of spoken word events and programs entitled ” L.A. Voz” at the newly renovated Los Angeles Theater Company in downtown Los Angeles.
For more information on Nancy’s management company, visit www.jeanniemanagement.com and to find out about her most recent project visit www.thenewlatc.com.
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