From Number to Name 3: Welcome Back Home
June 26 – 28, 2026
Downtown Los Angeles
From Number to Name 3: Welcome Back Home?
Three Workshop Performances | June 26–28, 2026
Directed and Devised by Kristina Wong
Featuring Formerly Incarcerated Members of API RISE, Their Families, and Supporters
What does “freedom” actually mean once you’ve gotten it back?
Created over an intensive three-week process with Pulitzer Prize Finalist Kristina Wong, From Number to Name 3: Welcome Back Home? centers formerly incarcerated Asian Pacific Islanders—members of API RISE—as they navigate reentry into a world that is anything but welcoming.
The growing Asian American prison population and the impact of incarceration in our communities often goes unaddressed because of the cultural shame and stigma of incarceration in our families. The previous East West Players digital productions examined how incarceration specifically impacts API communities, and what it’s like when you “kill” your prisoner number and return to society.
Through humor, storytelling, movement, and sharp collective inquiry, performers reflect on the strange in-between space of being “free” while living under the looming threats of deportation, surveillance, anti-immigrant rhetoric, and the everyday obstacles of rebuilding a life after incarceration.
Showtimes
All performances of this workshop are free and will take place in Downtown LA. Please note that seating is first-come, first-serve, so we recommend arriving early.
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ABOUT API RISE
API RISE is an extended family of formerly incarcerated or detained Asian immigrants/refugees, Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders. API RISE embraces and welcomes individuals of all backgrounds including immediate, and chosen family members, friends, and supporters, in the Los Angeles County and Inland Empire region.
API RISE’s mission is to make freedom possible for the community of current and formerly incarcerated individuals, youth and families in high-risk situations, allies, supporters, and their communities. It does this through culturally sensitive direct support, education, power building, organizing, and advocacy. API RISE envisions true freedom and liberation for API communities living within a compassionate society that harnesses its community power.
This is the third time API RISE has collaborated with a professional theatre company to produce this series and the first time working with Center Theater Group. This is also the first time this workshop will be performed live and in person. The first two projects of this series were digital production in 2021 and 2022 produced by East West Players.