artist resource center

"Those who can do...teach!" Welcome to Each One Reach One's Artist Resource Center (ARC). We've designed this center to give the adult artist the necessary information and instructions on what our mentoring program involves. I hope that you will take the time to look at some of the other pages on our site so that you become more familiar with who we are and see the pride that we take in doing what we do. The voices of our young writers and their library of plays are especially profound, considering these voices are really what bring us together in the first place. The column may also give you a sense of the magic and the gift of being a mentor. Please contact us if you have any questions. - Thomas Dean Kellogg, Artistic Director

 
our featured mentor

Kelvin Han Yee passionately believes in American's youth as its hope for the future. For Each One Reach One, Kelvin is an outstanding mentor and serves on its Advisory Council. Kelvin also participates in educational outreach for San Francisco Unified School District, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, American Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, San Francisco Mime Troupe, Chinatown Youth Center, Japanese American Youth Council, Asian American Dance Company.

You'll see Kelvin in the films Sweet November, True Crime (directed by Clint Eastwood), Patch Adams, Copycat, So I Married an Ax Murderer, Dumbarton Bridge and American Sons (American Playhouse). A long history of collaboration between Kelvin and Philip Kan Gotanda, writer and director, achieved another high with the recently released film Life Tastes Good.

Soon after getting expelled from high school, Kelvin accidentally stumbled into an audition at San Francisco's Asian American Theater Company. With no formal training, Kelvin began electrifying local audiences, picking up a Bay Area Critics' Circle Award, Dramalogue Award and a San Francisco Bay Guardian Goldie.

Since his start, Kelvin has performed with American Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theater, The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Thick Description, The San Francisco Mime Troupe, San Jose Repertory, BRAVA, The Huntington Theater and the Los Angeles Theater Center.

Always willing to break new ground, Kelvin was the first Asian American actor to perform with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Ashland) in its sixty-year history.

Kelvin's television credits include a starring role in Gideon Oliver with Lou Gosset Jr. and various roles on Nash Bridges for which he has the distinction of being Don Johnson's "favorite bad guy!" You may also recognize Kelvin from appearances in Back to the Streets of San Francisco and Tales of the City.

In 2000 Kelvin was named an Associate Artistic Director of the Eureka Theater. He has also directed for Asian American Theater Company, Playwriters Inc. and San Francisco Stage and Film. He received an NEA grant to direct composer Jon Jang and novelist David Mura in the multimedia performance After Ours'. Look for his new theater company R/Evolution and its debut play Texas, starring Robert Wu.