Rights of Passage: Sometimes it takes a world of courage to just be who you are.: Volume 1 - Tapa blanda

Rights of Passage is a new play about a gay Hindu named Wayan. Set on the Indonesian Island of Bali, his journey is delicately interwoven with queer and allied life stories about love, dignity and respect from around the world. Performed through monologues, scenes, digital media, puppetry, mask and dance, this New Conservatory Theatre Center World Premiere illustrates that sometimes it takes a world of courage to just be who you are.

Ed Decker is the Founding Artistic Director of New Conservatory Theatre Center and has directed and produced numerous productions in the last 31 years. He is a graduate of San Francisco State University and the former director of the A.C.T. Young Conservatory. His work with playwrights Norman Allen, Terrence McNally, Mart Crowley, Jack Heifner, Hal Corley, Felice Picano, Brad Fraser, David Marshall Grant, Jeff Baron, Kevin Elyot, Jonathan Harvey, Jewelle Gomez, and Lee Blessing brought many important plays to the West Coast. Robert Leone is the Communications and outreach lead for an organization that recruits, places, and supports public health professionals (fellows) working in over 20 developing countries and in Washington, DC. He is also a freelance writer whose interviews have appeared on the Grace Cathedral website, in the San Francisco Bay Area Reporter, and in the Global Health Council print magazine. His works of fiction have been published in The Evergreen Chronicles, The Harrington Gay Men’s Literary Quarterly, and Rosebud Magazine. Mr. Leone has also completed three plays, one of which was produced at NCTC in 2001.