Bar, Board and Theatrical Banquets
So if I had to just use one word, I’d say unequivocally “excellent”.
A co-founder of Studio 180, C. Derrick Chua is an entertainment lawyer and award-winning theatre and film producer. He is currently President of the Toronto Fringe Festival and past-President of the Toronto Theatre Alliance, and sits on the boards of Cahoots Theatre Projects, fu-Gen Asian Canadian Theatre and Shakespearience. As an entertainment lawyer, his clients have included a number of theatre companies, independent film and television production companies, bands, publishers, multimedia/ high tech companies and artists/performers of every kind. He holds an Honours BA from the University of Waterloo and an LL.B. from the University of Western Ontario, and is called to the Bar in Ontario and New York. (Source: Studio 180 website)
CHARPO: How did a lad from the Philippines get to be a lawyer in Toronto
CHUA: It’s not that this is a secret or that I am reticent to talk about it with anyone on a personal level, but there is really no short answer to this and has lots of related issues from personal family history to the political climate of the Philippines back under the realm of President Marcos, so its more something that I’d be happy to tell you over a drink sometime, but perhaps not so much in this correspondence.
