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KUNG FU BY DAVID HENRY HWANG
DIRECTED BY LEIGH SILVERMAN
Signature is thrilled to announce that Cole Horibe
will appear as Bruce Lee in this spring’s production
of David Henry Hwang’s Kung Fu. Audiences will be
familiar with Honolulu-native Horibe from his turn on
Season 9 of the hit television show, “So You Think You
Can Dance,” where he auditioned with a dance genre
he dubbed “martial arts fusion.” It’s this unusual background that brought him to Kung Fu. “It was my wife
who first saw Cole on ‘So You Think You Can Dance,’
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said Hwang. “Knowing I was writing this show, she
excitedly called me over. Cole’s electrifying martial
arts and dance performances immediately riveted
me...he shared Bruce’s charisma.”
To prepare for rehearsals, Horibe was motivated to
take classes in Jeet Kune Do, the form of martial arts
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created and taught by Lee. On taking on the role of
an icon in Kung Fu, Horibe remarked, “One could not
ask for a better writer than David Henry Hwang to
tell this story. Not only is David one of the greatest
playwrights of our era and masterful at the art of
storytelling, but he has been so thorough in his
research and in presenting the most accurate,
authentic Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee was, and still is,
one of my biggest role models, and so to actually
get to be him for a short while is simply an honor
for which I am extremely grateful.”
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