Director
Ellen Sebastian Chang

JIP, HIS STORY
by Katherine Paterson

Performances June 28 - July 15

Musical theater adaptation by Emily Klion & Danny Duncan
Directed by Ellen Sebastian Chang
Rashidi Omari, Dance
Michelle Jordan, Vocal Direction

MYT remounts its popular 2005 production of Katherine Paterson’s historical novel about a 1850’s Vermont boy caught in a web of racial and class prejudice. Jip knows only that he was left on the side of the road when he was a toddler and brought up on a poor farm. Who are his parents? Where is he from? When Jip discovers the truth, his whole life is changed. Two-time Newbery Award winner Katherine Paterson is the National Ambassador for Children’s Literature and one of the nation's best writers of young people’s fiction.

Jip, His Story will be directed by one of the Bay Area’s best-known directors, Ellen Sebastian Chang, who informs her directing with a keen interest in social and racial issues. Ellen is the Artistic Director of The World as It Could Be human rights education program and has dozens of directing credits.