About the Project
“In every boy a warrior.. In every warrior a boy.”
SHOGUN is an original clown show straight from the mindbrain that is Alex Nauta—a boy turned man who, while watching the hit series Shogun, found himself asking a simple question: Who is this for?
Determined to find out, Alex dusts off his Japanese and sets out to reconcile a lost heritage, the tangled ties of cultural multiplicity, and the formation of an artistic identity in the only way he knows how: by pretending to be a samurai.
SHOGUN premiered last November at the Elysian Theater’s acclaimed Spaghetti Festival, beating out over 300 submissions in the process to a sold out audience.
Artist Bio:
Alex Nauta is a performer, poet, and clown. His training includes time at the Idiot Workshop with John Gilkey, and Spy Monkey with Aitor Basauri. You can catch him in the courtyard of East West Players hanging out with his pals on staff at the Tuesday Night Project (the longest running Asian American open mic in the country), or around the Elysian Theater performing with the Asian-American comedy troupe, Pot Hot.
Production Team
