TeAda Productions

A theater of color rooted in the stories of immigrants, and refugees.

Upcoming shows, workshops and events below!

TeAda is hosting its SECOND ever CreAtive Healing Lab (CHL) which will take place between the months of October 2025 through June 2026. As part of this series, we are inviting guest teaching artists to facilitate workshops that combine the arts, social justice, and collective healing.

The goal of CHL is to be a sanctuary-third place for community to gather, process current events, imagine sustainable futures, community-build, and heal through sharing space and creating art.

NOTE: If we feel it is necessary, some workshops may move to an online setting to prioritize community safety. Mahalo for your understanding.

Apply to facilitate a workshop at the link below!

Help TeAda raise $10,000!

Amidst enormous cuts to arts funding everywhere & increased attacks on immigrants, refugees, asylum seekers, community leaders, communities we work with & stand for, we are calling on all various ways the community can support TeAda's mission(s). We continue to stand unwaveringly with and for immigrant, refugee communities during this time.

After successful tours on Oahu, Maui, The Big Island of Hawai'i, Saipan & Guam, TeAda is in need of support to help NOTHING MICRO ABOUT MICRONESIA travel to the continental U.S. Your contributions will help bring CreAtive Healing Lab back to Los Angeles this coming fall and next spring (2026), in addition to maintaining its partnerships with The Program for Torture Victims (PTV), USC's Sparks Center for Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion, and many more. Help TeAda raise $10,000 by the end of June so we may continue this hearty, necessary work.

We invite you to support TeAda with a donation at teada.org/donate or click the link below! Mahalo for your consideration!

Leilani Chan on THE FIRST SPARK OF COLLECTIVE LEADERSHIP hosted by Howlround (May 2025)

TeAda Productions & Nothing Micro About Micronesia Interview on One Micronesia Show, Guåhan (May 2025)

Featuring TeAda Productions’ Operations & Diaspora Programs Director, Soultree Camba & Nothing Micro About Micronesia star, Kealaulapo'iuonalani Faifili.

the NOTHING MICRO ABOUT MARIANAS tour IS HERE!

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Nothing Micro About Micronesia 2025 MARIANAS TOUR

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Thursday, April 24th, 2025 @ 7pm (Flame Tree Arts Festival | Garapan, Saipan)

Saturday, April 26th, 2025 @ 7pm (Flame Tree Arts Festival | Garapan, Saipan) [1ST-HALF ONLY]

Sunday, April 27th, 2025 @ 7pm (Flame Tree Arts Festival | Garapan, Saipan) [2ND-HALF ONLY]

*The Flame Tree Festival, is a free & non-ticketed event open to the public!

Friday, May 2nd, 2025 @ 7pm (University of Guam Fine Arts Theatre | Guåhan)

Saturday, May 3rd, 2025 @ 2pm (University of Guam Fine Arts Theatre | Guåhan)

Saturday, May 3rd, 2025 @ 7pm (University of Guam Fine Arts Theatre | Guåhan)

>>> Visit THIS LINK to get your GUAM show tickets! <<<

*All times GMT+10 (Chamorro Standard Time)

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NOTHING MICRO ABOUT MICRONESIA WILL TOUR in guam & saipan IN SPRING 2025.

In 2024, TeAda Productions and their cast and crew world-premiered Nothing Micro About Micronesia at Honolulu Theater for Youth in March 2024. In May, they performed at UH Mānoa Kennedy Theater for ConFest Hawai’i 2024, then spent their Fall 2024 on Moku o Keawe (The Big Island) and Maui, performing at UH Hilo Performing Arts Center, and Maui Arts & Cultural Center. Following up their transformative, inaugural touring year, the cast and crew of Nothing Micro About Micronesia prepare to tour Guam and Saipan in the Spring of 2025.

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TeAda Productions returned to Honolulu Theater of Youth on March 22nd, 2024 and premiered a new play celebrating the diversities and complexities of the Micronesian experience in Honolulu, Micronesia, and abroad.

Come join this continued conversation, and celebration of Micronesian culture, history, and geography of the Pacific.

NO ACK! CHECK DA FACTS!

Whether you can make the MARIANAS Tour of NOTHING MICRO ABOUT MICRONESIA, YOU can still support the play’s 2025 MARIANAS Tour (Saipan & Guåhan) and future Inter-Island and U.S Continental tours with a donation!

Any donation(s) will support us being able to provide more community member access to our shows, more community outreach for workshops, programs, performance, and audition opportunities; and expand the reach of this significant play that covers migration, climate change, decolonization, and justice connected to the Micronesian experience in Hawai’i, Micronesia, and beyond. You would also directly support the Touring Ensemble’s travel, food, lodging, booking and additional touring costs.

TeAda on Television!

We were on TV in Hawai’i!
If you missed it, NO WORRY, you can watch us online!

🌊🌊🌊 Our good friends at the Weaving Stories of Oceania show documented our most recent performance of Nothing Micro About Micronesia at UH Mānoa and created space for extensive interviews with Cultural Navigator Innocenta Sound-Kikku, our Directors Leilani Chan and Ova Saopeng, Nothing Micro About Micronesia star, Kathy Martin and additional cast and community leaders. 💫 💫💫

We extend our mahalos to the production team of Weaving Stories of Oceania — a show centering Pasifika culture, lived experiences, and storytelling — for inviting us to talk about the development of Nothing Micro About Micronesia, the history of our 3-decade long community arts organization, and decolonizing da teada.

You may watch Parts I and II of our interviews on the web at olelo.org/olelonet/ — by scrolling down to the search bar and typing in “Weaving Stories of Oceania” — or you may click the links below.

ENJOY!!! 🌊🌊🌊

MAHALO CAATA ConFest 2024!

Thank you CAATA ConFest 2024 for hosting Nothing Micro About Micronesia. We were so fortunate to have shared the stage and festival with productions including Glitter in the Pa’akai, For the Love of Spam, and the various 10-minute plays rooted in the perspectives and experiences of Asian and Pasifika artists.

A big mahalo to the village: our families, supporters, community partners, colleagues, crew, and cast of Nothing Micro About Micronesia. We’d like to thank all of the workshop participants, community leaders, and extensive Micronesian community that have contributed their minds, bodies, and hearts to this production and journey. IMUA!

Susan & James Iwamura, Nouthak Saopeng, Thomma Saopeng, Taloo Carrillo, Stephanie Camba, Demiliza Sagaral Saramosing, Misa Tupou, Kati Kuroda, Sarah Danvers, Joan Osato, Maximilian Urruzmendi, George Kon, Darlene Rodrigues, Kiki Rivera, Eleanor Chang, Innocenta Sound-Kikku, Parem Village of Epinune, Mayor Ana Akira and Family, Thiazina Nowell and family, Philios Uruman, Vicky Lukan, Canita Rilometo Nakamura and family, Patti Pedrus, Carl D. Apis and family, Keola Diaz and Tamera Heine, Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner, Magdalene Johnson, Alson Kelen, Tammy Hailuōpua Baker, Theo Kāneikoliakawahineika’iukapuomua Baker, Litdet Viravong & Coi Vu, Uale Anthony, Michelle Noe, Kamalu & Wailea Tupou, Joanie’s Uncle Bill and Auntie Churee, Tristan Henry, Emerald Hadik, Jayceleen Ifenuk, Fran Lujan, Kathy Martin, Koa Shope, Kealaula “Lala” Faifili, Shary-Keoni Likiak, Charles Jake Patris, Marvin Mariano, Jeung Bok Holmquist, Derek Cannon, Daniel Bambara Marley, Charlene Kusto, Eileen Camba, Noel Camba, Nasstasha Magaña, Chaslyn Ludwig, Mahina Ludwig, Mercedes Oster, Darren Bien, Ethan Morse, Lorelai Aiwohi, Russco Inchin, Ramona Faasoa, Eola Lokebol, Barbara Tom, Lillian Tsang, Samantha Olvera, Jason Pereira, Vai Alefosio, Alison Rodriguez, Kim Coco Iwamoto, Dina Shek, Maximus Yarawamai, Shanty Sigrah Asher, Becky Dunning, Mattea Mazzella, Thayer Walker, Lynda Muller, Philip Muller, Klaza Rudolph, Ramona Faasoa, Lorelai Aiwohi.

TeAda Productions featured on The Oceania Currents Podcast

In this episode, we speak with three cast members: Ova Saopeng (co-writer, co-director, cast), Kathy Martin, and Kealaula Faifili. They discuss the devising process behind the play [Nothing Micro About Micronesia] and the impact it has had for their audiences here in Hawaiʻi.

Nothing Micro About Micronesia premiered at Honolulu Theater for Youth in March 2024, and was presented at the Kennedy Theater at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in May 2024 for the 7th National Asian Pasifika Theater Festival, ConFest Hawaiʻi: 2024.

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For over 20 years, TeAda has collaborated with community-based organizations across the country, creating original plays rooted in the experiences of immigrants and refugees. A leader in their field, TeAda impacts tens of thousands of community members, offering acts of service through transformative theater workshops and performances.