Renegade Ada Cheng

  • Publications
    • Standing Up
    • Windy City TImes
    • Articles
  • Projects
    • Am I Man Enough?
    • Speaking Truths Series
    • Pour One Out
    • Talk Stories
  • Workshops
    • Toxic Masculinity Workshop
    • Straight to the Heart!
    • Narrative, Meanings, and Performance
  • Solo Performances
    • Not Quite
    • Breaking Rules, Broken Hearts
    • Other Performances
  • Press
  • Photos
  • Events
  • Speaker
  • Contact
  • Publications
    • Standing Up
    • Windy City TImes
    • Articles
  • Projects
    • Am I Man Enough?
    • Speaking Truths Series
    • Pour One Out
    • Talk Stories
  • Workshops
    • Toxic Masculinity Workshop
    • Straight to the Heart!
    • Narrative, Meanings, and Performance
  • Solo Performances
    • Not Quite
    • Breaking Rules, Broken Hearts
    • Other Performances
  • Press
  • Photos
  • Events
  • Speaker
  • Contact

Breaking Rules, Broken Hearts: Loving across Borders

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Ada Cheng's latest show tackles issues about gender, culture, and feminism. Ada Cheng explores how one learns about womanhood, love, and abuse in different sociopolitical and cultural contexts through personal stories. An intense personal journey, this solo weaves tales of breaking rules and broken hearts across borders. This performance is relevant to current debates about gender equality and women's status in American society
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About Ada
Ada Cheng is a professor turned storyteller, performing artist, show producer and host, teaching artist, and author. She has been featured at storytelling shows and performed on theatre stage in different cities in the United States. Both her solo performances, including NOT QUITE and BREAKING RULES, BROKEN HEARTS, have received great acclaim. She is also a frequent guest lecturer on college campuses about storytelling and identity. Her book, Standing Up: From Renegade Professor to Middle-Aged Comic, published in December 2016 by Difference Press, aims at encouraging people, particularly mid-lifers, to embrace fear and uncertainty and to pursue their passion and dream. Her motto: Make your life the best story you tell.
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Illinois Humanities - Ada Cheng
​ROAD SCHOLARS SPEAKERS BUREAU, ILLINOIS HUMANITIES (2019-2022) This program helps local nonprofit organizations in Illinois bring cultural and educational programs to their communities.  Ada's programs “NOT QUITE: ASIAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCES AND THE QUESTION OF ‘HOME’ IN IMMIGRATION & CITIZENSHIP DEBATES” and "OUR WORDS, OUR TRUTHS: STORYTELLING AS A PERFORMATIVE MEMOIR FOR COLLECTIVE IDENTITY AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT" is currently available until the year 2022.
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