1. Rahadyan Sastrowardoyo is an American of Indonesian and Filipino ancestry.
12 Facts About Rahadyan Sastrowardoyo
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Rahadyan Sastrowardoyo began his journalism career as a reporter, copy editor and photographer on his junior high school and high school newspapers in Brentwood, New York.
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Rahadyan Sastrowardoyo was editor-in-chief of the Brentwood High School yearbook in 1981, which won honorable mentions from the American Scholastic Press Association and the Columbia Scholastic Press Association.
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Rahadyan Sastrowardoyo's first paying job was as an events photographer for the Brentwood school district.
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Rahadyan Sastrowardoyo has since dabbled in wedding photography, wedding videography, dance photography, and theatrical photography for Deborah Savadge's Woodstock Theatre Company and Algonquin Productions.
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Rahadyan Sastrowardoyo worked at the Times's United Nations bureau in November and December 2007.
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Rahadyan Sastrowardoyo studied acting with Deborah Savadge beginning in the fall of 1989, ostensibly as a means to help him deal with his shyness.
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Rahadyan Sastrowardoyo has studied poetry with Kimiko Hahn, Richard Tayson and Li-Young Lee; performance with Beau Sia and the Asian American troupe Peeling; playwriting with Julia Cho and David Henry Hwang; photography with Charles Gatewood; dance with Ducky DooLittle and Pamardi Tjiptopradonggo; and writing with Rachel Kramer Bussel and Paul Levitz.
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In 1989 and 1990, Rahadyan Sastrowardoyo was a contributing editor for volumes 7 and 8 of Contemporary Theater, Film and Television, a reference series published by Gale Research.
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Rahadyan Sastrowardoyo gave a poetry reading at the Asian American Writers Workshop in January 2000.
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Rahadyan Sastrowardoyo is a nephew of Soenario, Indonesia's minister of foreign affairs from 1953 to 1955; and Subagio Rahadyan Sastrowardoyo, a noted poet, writer, essayist and literary critic.
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Rahadyan Sastrowardoyo was raised Baptist but left the church in 1978.