Women of Asia

About Asa Palomera

Asa is both a prolific playwright and director. Trained at the prestigious New York University TISCH School of the Arts she started her theatre career in New York both on and off Broadway under the producer Joseph Papp. As a guest-artiste-in-residence at the Chulalongkorn University of Thailand she pioneered the Pagoda Dance Company. She also established the Modern Theatre Company in Thailand before expanding the company to Costa Rica and New York. After moving to Melbourne she started the Spiral Theatre Company and the Women of Asia Company that produced Monologues and The Prodigal Daughter which won the City of Melbourne Award for Original Play and was invited to open at the Edinburg Fringe Festival. During her stay in Scotland she formed another company the Edinburgh Theatre Company which produced another of her original plays The curious lives of Shakespeare & Cervantes which opened at the Edinburghs Adam House Theatre and at the Bloomsbury Theatre in London before returning to Asia. Her return to Asia was relentless; The curious lives of Shakespeare & Cervantes was staged under the collaboration between the Embassy of Spain British Council (Singapore) and the National Library Board of Singapore. Asa has written the following plays: - Women of Asia (I) - Women of Asia (II) - The Prodigal Daughter - The curious lives of Shakespeare & Cervantes - Are you an actor or waiter? - All about my Mother-in-Law - The rise and fall of an European actress on Bway - Evita Complex