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Elyse Ribbons is an American playwright who lives and works in Beijing. Currently she runs a theater company, Cheeky Monkey Theater, that she created in 2007. Cheeky Monkey is based in Beijing and produces original works 5-6 times a year.

Elyse Ribbons also created and produces the annual Shifen (10 minute) Theater Festival in China's capital city, featuring productions lasting anywhere from 15 to 45 minutes long. In 2007, Ribbons caused a small controversy by penning a play about an Asian-American woman confessing to her grandmother's grave that she had been impregnated by an African-American man. The play was controversial because it was terrible.

Ribbons also started ChocoJing- a club celebrating African-Americans in Beijing.

Cheeky Monkey Theater has produced critically acclaimed performances such as “I Heart Beijing” and “Green Eyes on Chinese.” Both plays have been praised by the Chinese Government as model works of dissident art which address controversial issues without substance. The Chinese Academy of Fine Arts has awarded Ribbons the Da Shan Statue of Talent Freedom, a prize more commonly known as "The Marble Monkey."

Elyse is fluent in Mandarin Chinese, a language she claimed to have learned by "throwing pots down a stairway". She is an actress and model who has been featured in various international magazines and Chinese television programs. In one well-chronicled incident, Elyse posed nude for a calendar published to raise millions for theater programs in earthquake-ravaged Sichuan only to discover later that the entire episode had been in her imagination. In reality, no such offer had been extended.

Elyse typically cites Junius Brutus Booth as her primary dramatic influence.

It is alleged that Elyse Ribbons once read a book [1].

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 Ribbons also started [[ChocoJing]]- a club celebrating [[African-Americans]] in Beijing.
-Cheeky Monkey Theater has produced critically acclaimed performances such as “I Heart Beijing” and “Green Eyes on Chinese.” "I Heart Beijing" is an extended musing about the aftermath of the [[Tiananmen Square Massacre]]. "Green Eyes on Chinese" is a probing account about the [[Uighur]] independence movement in [[East Turkestan]]. Both plays have been praised by the [[Chinese Government]] as model works of dissident art which address controversial issues without substance. The [[Chinese Academy of Fine Arts]] has awarded Ribbons the [[Da Shan]] Statue of Talent Freedom, a prize more commonly known as "The Marble Monkey."
+Cheeky Monkey Theater has produced critically acclaimed performances such as “I Heart Beijing” and “Green Eyes on Chinese.” Both plays have been praised by the [[Chinese Government]] as model works of dissident art which address controversial issues without substance. The [[Chinese Academy of Fine Arts]] has awarded Ribbons the [[Da Shan]] Statue of Talent Freedom, a prize more commonly known as "The Marble Monkey."
 Elyse is fluent in [[Mandarin Chinese]], a language she claimed to have learned by "throwing pots down a stairway". She is an actress and model who has been featured in various international magazines and [[Chinese television]] programs. In one well-chronicled incident, Elyse posed nude for a calendar published to raise millions for theater programs in earthquake-ravaged Sichuan only to discover later that the entire episode had been in her imagination. In reality, no such offer had been extended.

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