my name is phil chen. i'm a, an author, a choreographer, and a writer, and co founder a final thought for yellow face and the president of the gold standard arts foundation. a lot of my work started out around the conversations started about 6 years ago with the artistic director of new york city ballet about how to represent asian characters on stage better, which has snowballed into a much larger global conversation. but pretty much every major american go is now part of this conversation to improve how we represent asians on stages. so thank you so much for having us. i get to have you say, daniel 9. i feel one question for one is a question for all i know you will come to it some different perspectives that start on my laptop. this is why the was doing the show. i caught a headline that surprised me. made me stop. have a look here on my laptop, royal opera status. madame butterfly, with changes to respect japanese culture that drew me in. that was fascinating. let's start the 9 out with madame a butter