Joanne Pan - Celebrate AAPI Heritage Month

In honor of Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS sat down with four AAPI artists to interview their heritage, family history and their artistry in theater to celebrate AAPI Heritage Month.

Joanne is a Taiwanese-American who's grandmother's grandmother is the most fierce woman there is. Joanne has inherited that fierceness and applies to her work as a stage manager and was an essential part of The Public Theater 's production of Soft Power. We are proud to amplify the voices of AAPI artists like Joanne. During #AAPIHeritageMonth and every month, you bring us joy! Video filmed and edited by Shiori Saito and produced by Riza Takahashi. Filmed at the reimagined New York Marriott Marquis.

Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS is one of the nation’s leading industry-based, nonprofit AIDS fundraising and grant-making organizations. By drawing upon the talents, resources and generosity of the American theater community, since 1988 Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS has raised more than $300 million for essential services for people with HIV/AIDS, COVID-19 and other critical illnesses across the United States.

Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS is the major supporter of the social service programs at The Actors Fund, including the HIV/AIDS Initiative, the Phyllis Newman Women’s Health Initiative and The Friedman Health Center for the Performing Arts. Broadway Cares also awards annual grants to more than 450 AIDS and family service organizations in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., providing lifesaving medication, healthy meals, counseling and emergency assistance.