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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

3 months

Thanks for all the love this morning 😫🧱🎤

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

3 years

Enjoy this spread of my dad who brought his cat “Trouble” to the JC Penny family portrait deal when he and my mom didn’t have a child yet.

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

2 years

I can smell it… it’s almost Nora season

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

3 years

You’re seeing a play/musical/show/movie and you see this couch? Somebody gonna be an alcoholic that’s for damn sure. I don’t make the rules but set designers have doubled down on this.

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

5 years

The best shows on broadway are about death. Send tweet

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

3 years

Every school theatre department in America cut the “guy in a dress is funny” bit in your musicals and plays challenge starting now for the rest of eternity, thanks.

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

3 years

The way the industry brought Ciara Renee into TWO shows that desperately needed her only to close early due to Covid is so hurtful. I can’t wait to welcome her back to back to Broadway with a full run, originating a role or otherwise. She deserves so much better than all this.

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@itsgraceaki

3 years

.... make Dawn in wa*tress Asian again challenge...👀

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

3 years

Me watching “West Side Story” “God I loved Newsies”

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

2 years

Plays be like “Oh and in the last five minutes? You’re gonna lose your fucking mind”

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

11 months

Nothing slaps harder than “WHICH OF THE PICKWICK TRIPLETS DID IT”

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

2 years

Little Shop Off-Broadway really gonna have every cast member of OBC Spring Awakening as Seymour ain't they? Do Brian Charles Johnson next.

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

2 years

Can someone please make sure this $200 secret garden bomber goes to a good home bc I cannot afford kthank you I love you Broadway Flea

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

2 years

I was today years old when I realized this was Hannah waddingham in the Les mis movie

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

1 year

Walked by a group of women sitting outside on the way to the movies and they yelled “Hi Barbie 👋” and we responded “Hi Barbie!” and suddenly all childhood trauma erased and my blood runs pink now

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

3 years

Bachelor party from Promising Young Woman

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

3 years

Imagine going on a PR spree on every podcast talking about your tour as the principal in an upcoming national Broadway company and you’re like what if I posted this rn

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

1 year

Does immersive theater just mean “they gonna touch you a lil” ?

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

6 months

Tonight, at a Broadway show I watched a racist woman fully pout and ignore an entire act just to sit on her phone and shop ⬇️ it was awful and I’m embarrassed it took me out of so much

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

11 months

Imagine Janelle Monae’s Sally Bowles

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

2 years

My friend just said a horse pooped on stage during the Met’s AIDA tonight. Theatre is back

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

2 years

Simply exhausted from known abusers getting nominated, work in the industry, praise, stage time, you name it.

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

3 years

Next to Normal movie - Let it happen

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

1 year

Me at MT camp singing “still hurting” during concert week directly at a boy who pitty kissed me

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

2 years

I hope you all still feel great about your unnecessary “critique”s about her performance, the way you shared her unauthorized vocal recordings, and body shamed her…

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

7 years

Nothing says "you've got a problem" more than finding white cheddar smart pop kernels in your sports bra

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

2 years

Tonight is a big night for theatre

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

3 years

“Don’t care for act 2 of Into the Woods” 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

2 years

It’s almost “makes me want a hot dog real bad” season. I feel it

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

5 months

BREAKING NEWS excited to report this couch makes an appearance in The Heart of Rock and Roll on Broadway

grace aki

@itsgraceaki

3 years

You’re seeing a play/musical/show/movie and you see this couch? Somebody gonna be an alcoholic that’s for damn sure. I don’t make the rules but set designers have doubled down on this.

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

8 months

Made the Broadway Show Opening Schedule 2024 Share and pray for our souls

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

2 years

Is… the theatre community quiet about the atrocities 🏳️‍⚧️ people are experiencing bc they have no images to post of trans/enby people in their companies to post in support bc you’re telling on yourself…

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

3 years

I tried

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

3 years

If we’ve learned anything from @DianaOnBroadway … LET FUNNY PEOPLE RUN YOUR SOCIAL. HIRE A WRITER. HIRE A COMEDIAN. Social media people are no joke. It isn’t just graphic design, it’s people.

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

3 years

Protect trans and enby kids every day. Full stop. Lead with love.

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

3 years

Believe women. Stop the cycle of abuse in the theatre. At home. Everywhere. Women need accountability for enabling abusers too. I see you. READ: anonymous article “The Movie Star and Me” from a show’s intern for 🎨🧣

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

2 years

I regret nothing

The Broadway Beat

@BwayBeatNews

2 years

Theatre Kid Really Milking English Class Read-Through of “The Crucible”

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

2 years

Next to Normal revival with Troy as the Dad… 🤷🏻‍♀️

DiscussingFilm

@DiscussingFilm

2 years

Troy Kotsur on his #Oscar win — “I was so tired of financially struggling for so many years. Now, receiving these awards — it’s saved my life, my career, my family. I’ve taken so many risks.” (Source: )

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

3 years

Lastly, can Broadway social media teams work on more transparent phrasing on their coronavirus updates, please? Every post about cancellation or postponement of shows reads as if “THE CAST GOT COVID.” Very often, that isn't the case and puts a lot of scrutiny on the ppl on stage.

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

5 years

@Lin_Manuel You know the winner is “Dueling Grounds” right? With Burristas. And different themed drinks like “Ma-red eye-ia Reynolds” “Lafchaiyette” “My shot” espresso. “You’ll be back” refills. Please hire me.

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

3 years

No one leaves for good

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@nytimestheater

3 years

Stephen Sondheim, the revered and influential composer-lyricist behind some of Broadway’s most beloved and celebrated shows, has died at 91.

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

3 years

Playwright Transparency 🪡: a big reason I am annoying you right now about my play is because that’s the only way this stuff works. 🙃 I am an unknown playwright, & performer. I essentially have no credits. My parents are not Hollywood producers. I am currently unproduced.

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

2 years

Wicked 2: The Squeakquel

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

6 years

They just started dating. I still can’t get Damon to share fries.

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

2 years

Hi everyone. We’re doing it. Info to come 😅 And yes I did take a gummy and yes we’re serious

Preston Max 🏳️‍��️

@prestonmaxallen

2 years

Has 54 Below ever sung the hits of the Disney Channel cause I would produce that into another dimension

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

7 months

But what is Broadway if not two Jack Kelly’s being announced to lead shows in the spring on the same day. Press said “Nows the time to seize the day”!

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

2 years

Y’ALL I WON BEST ACTOR FOR THE SHENYC FESTIVAL

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

2 years

Asian people have been scared to travel, Black people can’t even go to the grocery store, kids don’t feel safe when they go to learn. Every. Day. I’m numb I feel insane.

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

2 years

Saturday 6pm in the Gershwin Alley outside Circle in the Square Theater. We’re gathering to celebrate and uplift everyone in the Broadway community especially @kpopbroadway Bring your friends. Bring a K-treat, boba, coffee, tea, whatever is your jam!

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

3 years

I will never forget that police chief saying “he had a bad day” Last July a police officer said to me “he just seems upset” I’m exhausted. The rhetoric is deplorable. When will we stop humanizing people who “snap” and take it out on women. When.

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

2 years

IM NOT OK

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

2 years

I dare Beetlej to extend three weeks lmao

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

3 years

Theatre ppl “just do a proshot!!! No more movie actors doing musicals!! We wanna see the STAGE ACTORS do it! Employ them!” *proshot employs the entire stage team, goes on major streaming service* Theatre ppl “what if we laughed it into oblivion”

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

1 year

The entire timeline today

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

6 years

Hey @ABCNetwork ... you guys lookin for a show for Tuesday 😈 #SaveRise #RiseAGAIN

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

2 years

A Broadway first 😫♥️

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

3 years

When you get any normal job, the employer does a background check. But (genuine question) do theatre companies or casting ever do this? Wouldn’t a current warrant for someone’s arrest or recent charges etc be a factor?

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

3 years

I lost a friend. A very funny, loving, handsome, smart, giving, grade A friend. From UCB, to fashion, to friendship. We love you Jeremiah & miss you He was smart & he was careful but we will never see him again. Please keep wearing your mask & vaccinating, this is terrible .

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

1 year

I’m going to combust

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

1 year

Looks like we’re ALL having brunch with Bad Cindy on June 11

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

2 years

♥️🎂🎉

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

10 months

Let them play brothers in a comedy though

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

2 years

Diversity needs to include Asians Diversity needs to include Asians Diversity needs to include Asians Diversity needs to include Asians

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

1 year

Seeing people that look like me and my family on stage in shows that are traditionally led by yt ppl will never be “a clever bit of social justice marketing”. It’s okay to feel seen even in the slightest of ways it can change a story, it can be representation- ✨🫰🏼💕

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

3 years

Came home to my mom’s new wall art. I’m screaming 😂

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

2 years

The incredible woman behind this account is responsible for galvanizing an incredible fan base, jumping through all the hoops, and getting tone and humor right over and over. Give some ♥️ today —

Beetlejuice on Broadway

@BeetlejuiceBway

2 years

feeling emo today 🖤

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

2 years

Can they keep the fan art wall up though… @BeetlejuiceBway the Mariott deserves the creepy art in the passage way

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

1 year

Three years ♥️ thankful to the people who got me out

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

2 years

Will Miss Debose be presenting best supporting actress to this year’s winner at the Oscar’s? Meaning there’s a chance she will open the envelope with “and the winner is… UNGELA Bassett”

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

2 years

“Just know where your dollars are going” this is heartbreaking. This is exploitation. Thank you for posting, Jamal. He followed this video letting everyone know they’d received wire transfers but ugh, just unacceptable.

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

6 years

Me “Should I do my hair up or down??” Damon “grace it’s your body your choice”

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

2 years

Fixed it✨ Love Kennedy Kanagawa’s Milky White

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

3 years

John Lasseter

Film Updates

@FilmUpdates

3 years

After Angelina Jolie’s #Maleficent and Emma Stone’s #Cruella , which Disney villain’s origin story would you like to see explored next?

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

2 years

Fuck Brigadoon

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

2 years

Happy one year to me moving into an apartment and sending these out to friends and family so I didn’t have to explain anything 🫠

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

6 years

Honestly @YouTube if you wanna pick up “the understudies” as a spin off series that’d be great #RISE

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

1 year

THERE HAS ALREADY BEEN A STANDING O

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

2 years

And just like that

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

1 year

Performances I wish I could award Gregg Mozgala : COST OF LIVING Marcel Spears : FAT HAM Gaten Matarazzo : Sweeney Todd Caroline Innerbichler : Shucked Steven Boyer : Kimberly Akimbo Billy Eugene Jones : FAT HAM Ben Rappaport : Goodnight Oscar Marchant Davis : ain’t no mo

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

3 years

Ps every day someone I respect from afar defends someone in this manner my lil heart breaks. First, selfishly for me and then ultimately for victims who CONTINUE to be gaslit

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

3 years

Happy Mother’s Day to me for raising my exes

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

2 years

A fun fact about me is that I too am being sued for defamation. All over this specific episode. Where I tell a story about abuse, hospitalization, displacement, and recovery. It is nameless, it is honest, and I’ve never listened to it for fear of falling apart.

grace aki

@itsgraceaki

2 years

And I won’t stop saying this. I won’t stop for myself. I won’t stop for others. Believe survivors.

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

3 years

Doing my once a month tweet check in to tell you that there are literally no “two sides” to abuse. Your story matters. You aren’t alone. You are loved and seen.

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

3 months

AUDRA 🌹GYPSY Here she is boys

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

3 years

If you have the opportunity to positively change someone’s life… send that email, send that text, do it.

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

6 years

Hey Twitter it isn’t over yet. Keep tweeting #RISEAGAIN to make sure @NBCRise gets a season 2. If they do and everyone retweets this I’ll release a very weird photo of Damon. Don’t test me internet, I will do it.

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

1 year

Fat Ham Cost of living Ain’t no mo’ All three some of the best plays I’ve ever witnessed or read in my lifetime we may never have that good of a play category. Read. Buy. Go see plays.

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

2 years

Is the c*nt skirt about to make her red carpet debut for @potusbway ? I think yes?

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

3 years

Y’ALL I’m officially a PAID PLAYWRIGHT & I have more exciting news about my play- Thanks for your continued love and support for #tofreeamockingbird

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

3 years

Did you know I created unhinged theatrical food stations at my wedding? Bc I definitely did.

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

3 years

Can’t think of a better distraction from the world right now than hearing Judy Kuhn, Ethan, Steve Pasquale, Uranowitz, Cooper, Swenson and everyone in the studio. Truly. Magical. 🎶March 18🎶

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

2 years

Just found out I’m going on for Julianne in POTUS today on my way

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

3 years

Before I post to the grid... did it work?

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@itsgraceaki

2 years

Diversity should include different sized bodies Diversity should include different sized bodies Diversity should include different sized bodies

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

3 years

I am unable to listen to anything else right now I am sorry

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

3 years

This past year we’ve had two television series dealing with the highly publicized sexual exploitation of women; Pam and Tommy & impeachment about Monica Lewinsky. One was made with the subject’s consent… one was not.

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

4 years

I was groomed and preyed on at 19 by a theatre co. owner who plead guilty last yr to 5 counts of agg rape and is FREELY walking (yt guy). He tracked me down at my NY job and I tricked him into spending $$$ on a hotel for “us” and never showed up. No regrets. F*** predators.

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

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Ray if you had a nickel for every time a you had to do a Broadway show where a technical difficulty stopped the show and you had to perform a concert - you’d have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice. Right?

Raymond J Lee

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So we just performed a concert reading of the first 1/4 of @SweeneyToddBway . A night to remember for the rest of my career.

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

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Sat directly behind Hannah Waddingham at @PurlieBway opening and I wasn’t weird about it AT ALL, proud of me

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

2 years

It me! It my play! 😍 thank you @BroadwayWorld

Grace Aki's TO FREE A MOCKINGBIRD Is Coming to SheNYC Festival of New Plays

It was announced today that Grace Aki’s To Free a Mockingbird will come to the 2022 SheNYC Theater Festival running July 25-August 7th at the Connelly Theater!

www.broadwayworld.com

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grace aki

@itsgraceaki

2 years

Confirmed! I’m singing at an art installation at Lincoln Center this summer with a group of AAPI artists 🥺♥️✌🏼

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