On this episode, my guest is the Artistic Director of the Adventure Theatre in Glen Echo, MD, Chil Kong. On the drive in to work in the morning, he centers himself. Kong carried from his college days a philosophy which he explains in three stages:  “Make the mundane regular.  Make the regular masterful.  Make the masterful magical.”

Adventure Theatre is a family theater company that focuses on stories targeted mostly toward kids.

It is located in what was originally designed as a segregated theme park. 

At the opening of our conversation, Kong talks about how his presence as the only Asian American artistic director of a major family theater company challenges that troublesome past. 

Chil Kong’s pick for this edition of Opening Paragraph is The Paper Kingdom by Helena Ku Rhee.