{"id":11,"date":"2021-11-21T15:12:46","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T15:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dmagwili.com\/index.php\/home\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T02:05:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T02:05:31","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dmagwili.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Dom Magwili"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Audiobook Narrator, Actor, Author, Asian American Lecturer, Director<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u201cI want the wide American Earth\u201d<\/p>\n\u2014 Carlos Bulosan<\/small>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe above quote is from Pilipino American writer Carlos Bulosan, I want the Wide American Earth<\/cite><\/a>. It speaks of the conviction and aspirations of Asian Pacific immigrants coming to America. It outlines their influences in guiding the evolution of their new homeland.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Notes from a Creative Heart<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Greetings and Salutations, everybody!<\/p>\n\n

It was the 1970s. I was graduating from the University of San Francisco. I had gone through many changes. I started in competitive speech and debate but discovered acting in my Junior Year. By graduation I found myself in an entrance interview for the Acting Program of the American Conservatory Theatre. It was there I said, in a trembling voice, that yes, I was a professional actor.<\/i><\/p>\n\n

After that I made my way down to Los Angeles to seek my fortune. Got married. Got grandchildren. Got great grandchildren. It\u2019s a life.<\/p>\n\n

But in those days, it was in L.A. that I pivoted into Asian American Theatre and Asian American Studies. The Vietnam War was still raging. The Civil Rights movement was present. The Black Panthers. The effects of the grape strike persisted. Viva La Raza!<\/i> The Yellow Brotherhood continued. Ethnic Studies was being fought for. Specifically, for me, Asian American Studies was being fought for. We wanted to claim our American history and experience.<\/p>\n\n

Up to this time, any Asian roles of substance usually went to non-Asian people. I give you all the Charlie Chan actors of the movies. There was this growing tsunami among Asian American performers that life had to be better than this. It was! BUT we would have to do it ourselves. Hence, I worked not only as an actor but also as a playwright, a director, a producer, a screenwriter, a movie director, a novelist, an audio book narrator. I became hyphenated by necessity.<\/p>\n\n

My instincts are entrepreneurial. They are creative and persistent. In 2022, the internet is the new frontier and I aim to stake my claim.<\/p>\n\n

This is my website and you are welcome.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Audiobook Narration<\/h3>

Let Dom Magwili\u2019s over 30 years of experience in performance, story writing, and development enhance your stories in audio.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Actor<\/h3>

Acclaimed performer and actor. Who Backstage.com described as \"\u2026absolutely spellbinding\u2026 By just marching onstage, he fills the theatre with an electrifying presence.\u201d<\/br>\nPictured above with Sandi Massie<\/i><\/small><\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Author<\/h3>

Dom is a produced writer for stage, tv, film, and the internet. His writing has evoked comments such as \"funny and touching\u201d as well as \u201cuniversal feelings of love, camaraderie.\"<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Book Signing at Echo Park Library<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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A Book signing for
Scientific Dragons: The Adventure of Ensun Castle<\/i>, by Dom Magwili<\/p>

February 21, 2026:<\/i> My thanks to Harmonie Tangonan, who joined us at the Scientific Dragons book signing with the Carlos Bulosan Book Club at the ECHO PARK LIBRARY. Very pleased she was there. And she got a book!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dom Magwili Audiobook Narrator, Actor, Author, Asian American Lecturer, Director \u201cI want the wide American Earth\u201d \u2014 Carlos BulosanThe above quote is from Pilipino American writer Carlos Bulosan, I want the Wide American Earth. It speaks of the conviction and aspirations of Asian Pacific immigrants coming to America. It outlines their influences in guiding the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-site-content-layout":"full-width-container","site-content-style":"unboxed","site-sidebar-style":"unboxed","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"enabled","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmagwili.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmagwili.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmagwili.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmagwili.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmagwili.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":291,"href":"https:\/\/dmagwili.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2622,"href":"https:\/\/dmagwili.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/2622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmagwili.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}