I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic.

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• Jessica Hagedorn:

  I think for a lot of so-called post-colonial peoples, there's a feeling of not being quite legitima

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  I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in poli

• Jessica Hagedorn:

  I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City.

• Jessica Hagedorn:

  Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains.

• Jessica Hagedorn:

  Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.

• Jessica Hagedorn:

  My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And

• Jessica Hagedorn:

  There are certain regions in the country where the indigenous people eat dogs.

• Jessica Hagedorn:

  There were also horror shows on the radio. Very terrifying and thrilling to me as a kid. They had a

• Jessica Hagedorn:

  We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio.

• Jessica Hagedorn:

  Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry the