The Taiwanese Experience: The Biggest Act of My Life – Creative Nonfiction by Jamie Su
Finalist, High School Category [Act I, Prologue] I’ve never taken an acting class. Or been in a drama club. Or even auditioned for a play. But I am an actress. And a heck of a good one, at that. To start, my name isn’t even Vivian. It’s Yu-Wei, but they didn’t know how to pronounce that at my kindergarten graduation. My parents brought me to court and had it legally changed a month later. They were afraid that kids at school would make fun of me. I never told them that they…