InTheRedStyle's Keith Johnson and Jacqueline H. Waller speaks with Ellen Sebastian Chang

Ellen Sebastian Chang is a director, writer and a creative consultant with the Zellerbach Family Fund’s Technical Assistance Program. Through Young Audiences of the Bay Area, she teaches play creation through out the Bay Area . Ms. Sebastian Chang was the cofounder and artistic director of LIFE ON THE WATER, a national and internationally known presenting and producing organization at San Francisco’s Fort Mason Center from 1986 through 1995.

In 2004 she premiered “Thieves in the Temple: The Reclaiming of Hip Hop” and “Aya deLeon is Running For President” written and performed by spoken word artist Aya de Leon; staged the west coast premiere of the Philip Glass opera “Ahknahten” for Oakland Opera Theater(Joshua Kosman’s top ten classic events of 2004).