I first went to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon when I was in fifth grade. We spent the entire year fundraising for it, took a bus down and a night bus back, frolicked in the park, and saw Libby Appel's production of King Lear (once we returned to the classroom I would forever immortalize Edmund 2 of 2).

Since then I attended the OSF Seminar for High School students and returned to OSF my senior year at Yale to complete my Ethnicity, Race, and Migration thesis on being a non-white ethnic actor at OSF.

So when I was perturbed by an article recently written in my hometown's weekly newspaper, I wrote my first letter to the editor. And it was harsh.

Read it here: http://www.eugeneweekly.com/20170713/letters-editor/letters-editor-2017-07-13