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Her subject matter is personal: the racial bias and trauma in the Asian community. The high school senior's new show is being presented as a radio play. Katie Lu's play is called "Pandemic." It's about the pain her community has felt during the pandemic. It was scripted as a stage show but it's being presented as a radio play because theaters are limited in this pandemic. The Wissahickon High School junior wanted to give this moment a voice. She was writing it in real-time as events unfolded. "As a Chinese American, it really struck me of all the rhetoric that ostracized Chinese Americans and Asian Americans, painting them as outsiders, painting them as people who are bringing the virus over," Lu says. "It made me question my identity in this country and my place as an American."
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