PROGRAM A
L’opera!
Written by Kurt Sanchez Kanazawa
Directed by Jeff Liu & Kalina Ko
A fun-loving, Japanese and Filipino American opera singer gets into The Juilliard School…. then loses his voice.
Parity
Written by Howard Ho
Directed by Austin Ku & Jully Lee
Performed by Jully Lee
Parity was a law of physics until a Chinese American woman Chien-Shiung Wu, Queen of Nuclear Research disproved it against all odds.
PROGRAM B
Wash N Fold
Written by Patrick Lee
Performed by Kendrick Carter and Robert Zhu
A heartwarming chance encounter between two strangers who are polar opposites, but find commonality and healing.
Body Count
Written and performed by Joy Regullano
Directed by Fran de Leon
A comic riff through a female Asian American lens of shitty relationships, sexuality and family dysfunction.
PROGRAM C
Peach Boy
Written by Kenjiro Lee
Directed by Alexandra Darcy Haddad
Performed by Kana Seiki and Kenjiro Lee
The puppet version of Momotaro, a boy born from a peach, who sets off on a quest to the island of Onigashima to fight the wicked oni, assisted by a dog, a monkey and a pheasant in traditional Japanese kamishibai storytelling.
OriGen Story
Written By Nina Ki
Directed by Chris Yejin
Performed by Zoë Kim and Sarah Shin
Dramaturgy by Amrita Ramanan
A biomythographical play collage about the life experiences of queer Korean playwright, Nina Ki.
PROGRAM D
Solitude
Created and performed by azumi O E
A Butoh-infused dance creation that explores identity and ancestral memories through visceral metaphor and expressionistic symbolic lighting.
Halfanese Two Halves of a Whole Idiot
Written and performed by Cody LeRoy Wilson
Sound design by Cameron Williams
A stand-up roller coaster meets clowning show as Cody shares his journey to New York City where he finds himself, his Asian identity and... his dad?
Performance Schedule:
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