The New Group (New York, NY)
Rafta, Rafta
By Ayub Khan-Din,
based on the play All in Good Time by Bill Naughton
May 8 to June 21, 2008
extended to June 28

No Sex, Please, We're British Indians - a comic farce on the wedding night of two East Indian newlyweds.

Ramble-Ations
A One D'Lo Show
Friday and Saturday, June 27 + 28, 2008

8:30pm
Tickets: $15/20
Click Here to RSVP

Stir-Friday Night (Chicago, IL)
Stir-Friday Night! Improvises!
Thursday nights in June, 2008

Where & When
The Playground Theater

3209 N. Halsted
(Corner of Halsted and Belmont)

8 p.m.
Thursdays in June

Tickets
$10

RSVP
(773) 871-3793
SFN! Serving Up the Funny
Improvisation Rules!
Stir-Friday Night! is bringing their unique brand of humor to The Playground Theater starting this Thursday and for all the Thursdays in June (5th, 12th, 19th, and 26th) with their own improv showcase. Because it's improvisation, no two shows will be the same so you can keep coming back!
Tickets are only $10!

Stir-Friday Night!
P.O. Box 268560
Chicago, Illinois 60626
312-965-0247
Stir-Friday Night! is celebrating their 13th year in existence. Your continued support helps SFN! be a voice for the Asian American community. Thank you!

This project is partially supported by a CityArts Program 1 grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council.

Guthrie Theatre (Mineapolis, MN)
After a Hundred Years
by Naomi Iizuki
June 7 to 29, 2008

A haunting drama that examines a legacy of guilt, while seeking possibilities of forgiveness and redemption. An American journalist arrives in Phnom Penh, granted a rare, careermaking interview with a Khmer Rouge general accused of war crimes on the eve of his trial in front of a UN tribunal. But how well can the general defend his actions? How savvily can the journalist wade through his subject's lies and accusations? And what surprising information is lurking behind a mysterious woman's happy facade?

HERE Arts Center (New York, NY)
oph3lia
by Aya Ogawa
June 11 to July 2, 2008

We know what we are, but know not what we may be... Three disparate stories of displacement, inspired by Shakespeare's character, are interwoven in this haunting and playful exploration of identity in a globalized world.

Set and costume design by Clint Ramos
Lighting and video design by Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew
Sound design by Rich Kim
Music by Andy Gillis
Assistant Director Joan Jubett

Featuring:
Laura Butler, Drae Campbell, Dawn Eshelman, Connie Hall*, Ikuko Ikari, Hana Kalinski, Eunjee Lee*, Mark Lindberg, Alanna Medlock, Jy Murphy*, Jorge Alberto Rubio, Magin Schantz, Maureen Sebastian*
Stage Manager: Stacey Haggin*
Assistant Stage Manager: Nicole Greene

Written & directed by Aya Ogawa

June 11 - July 2

At HERE Arts Center - 145 6th Ave.
(between Spring & Broome, enter on Dominick)

Yangtze Repertory Theatre (New York, NY)
Forbidden City West
by Joanna Chan
June 16 to July 2, 2008

An original musical in English with 3 scenes in Cantonese and Toishanese Chinese, with bilingual subtitles, on 100 years of Chinese American experience through the life and times of the legendary entertainer, Jadin Wong.

See News story.

fu-GEN Theatre Company (Toronto, Canada)
with the generous assistance of The Factory Theatre
presents
The 5th Annual Potluck Festival
June 20 to 29, 2008

The Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst St.
PWYC per show ($15 Suggested)

The Potluck Festival has been and remains to be the only new-play-development festival dedicated to Asian-Canadian playwrights in Canada. For four years, this festival has nurtured 26 Asian-Canadian playwrights with some plays going on to further development with other theatre companies, and some being successfully entered and produced in festivals.

And now, to celebrate its 5th year running, we are taking this one-night-only event and expanding it to a 6-night festival, focusing on the development of 7 plays in various stages of creation and culminating in public readings over six days/nights. Come early and enjoy tasty treats and delectable delights compliments of one of our sponsors!

FESTIVAL DESIGNERS:
Set Design by Jackie Chau
Lighting Design by Aaron Kelly

STAGE MANAGEMENT by Dale Yim

• Brown Balls
  A Stage Play
  By Byron Abalos
  Dramaturgy and Direction by Philip Akin
  JUNE 20, FRIDAY 8:00 PM
  Sponsored by The Sun Barbecue Company
  Under the guise of an Import Car/Cellular Phone/Karaoke Conference, three young Asian men dressed as Bruce Lee, Charlie Chan and Fu Manchu take the audience hostage and force them to listen to their grievances that result from their struggle to justify and redefine their maleness. Brown Balls is an unapologetic, honest, touching and often hilarious exploration of Asian masculinity in a Western context.
• Stroke
  A Stage Play
  By Marie-Leofeli R. Barlizo
  Dramaturgy and Direction by Marie Beath Badian
  JUNE 21, SATURDAY 3:00 PM
  Sponsored by Tia Celang Catering
  Between the hours of dusk and dawn a catastrophic event occurs forcing a family to confront the secrets of the past. Stroke explores the meaning of family, responsibility, forgiveness and how we choose to remember our sins.
• A Taste of Empire
  Presented by Cahoots Theatre Projects
  A Site-Specific Performance Piece
  By Jovanni Sy
  JUNE 20, FRIDAY 8:00 PM
  JUNE 21, SATURDAY 8:00 PM
  JUNE 22, SATURDAY 2:00 PM and 8:00 PM
  Location: Nella Cucina - 876 Bathurst Street
  Tickets $25 - includes food sampling
  *Please note that seating is limited to 30 people. Call 416.920.2828 to book tickets.
  Iron Chef meets the Noam Chomsky Lectures. Jovanni Sy examines links between colonialism and cuisine while preparing and cooking Rellenong Bangus in a functioning kitchen.
• The Kitchen Showcase
  JUNE 22, SUNDAY 3:00 PM
  Presenting excerpts from a series of original works-in-progress by fu-GEN’s very own playwriting unit, the Kitchen.
• Tale of a Mask
  A Stage Play
  By Terry Watada
  Dramaturgy and Direction by Nina Lee Aquino
  JUNE 27, FRIDAY 8:00 PM
  Sponsored by New Generation Sushi
  Tale of a Mask is a haunting tale of a Wife and Mother who struggles against a new life she did not choose. Based on actual events of an immigrant Japanese family.
• Kim’s Convenience
  A Stage Play
  By In-Surp Choi
  Dramaturgy and Direction by Jovanni Sy
  JUNE 28, SATURDAY 3:00 PM
  Sponsored by Korea House
  The humorous story of a family in Toronto’s Koreatown and the last day of their convenience store.
• Pu-Erh
  A Stage Play
  By Norman Yeung
  Dramaturgy and Direction by Keira Loughran
  JUNE 28, SATURDAY 8:00 PM
  Sponsored by Wen Long Tea
  An exploration of the barriers between parent and child, Pu-Erh explores identity, youth, and the responsibility of each new generation.
• lady in the red dress
  A Stage Play
  By David Yee
  Dramaturgy and Direction by Guillermo Verdecchia
  JUNE 29, SUNDAY 3:00 PM
  Sponsored by Bright Pearl Restaurant
  Set against the backdrop of the Chinese-Canadian redress lawsuit, lady in the red dress is the story of a lawyer without a conscience, a woman without a past, and vengeance for a cause that had been ignored too long. A darkly comic revenge story about the skeletons in our closets, and the consequences of our (in)actions.

InterACT (Sacramento, CA)
Carnival De L'Amour
June 25 to 28, 2008

Carnival of fun and more, intertwines passion and love with music, dance with dinner original script & most music by Artistic Director, Dennis Yep

Another Chicago Theatre Company (Chicago, IL)
Happy Talk: a romantic urban fairytale
by Annette Lee
June 28 & 29, 2008

Gina loves Bob, but Bob isn't free to love anyone until he's free of his mother. Could the answer be in a pair of a fabulous ladies shoes?

presented by
Two shows: Sat. June 28 at 2:30 and Sun. June 29 at 7:30
RedTwist Theatre, 1033 W. Bryn Mawr, Chicago IL
$12 gen, $7 industry (w/headshot, resume, business card)
http://www.anotherchicago.org/lps/index.html

This is part of the Last Play Standing competition and this is the final round with one other play. Audience plays a part in the selection of the winner. If anyone is in the Chicago area, please come see the show.

East West Players (Los Angeles, CA)
Transfigurations
new play readings
June 28 to

TRANS/FIGURATIONS - SPRING 2008 Reading Series
Eleven New Works In Progress from the David Henry Hwang Writers Institute at East West Players

At the David Henry Hwang Theater
120 North Judge John Aiso Street Los Angeles, CA 90012

$5 Suggested Donation

SATURDAY, June 28 @ 1pm

The Night Rehearsal
By Steven Tran
Directed by Suzanne Karpinski
Till intends his new play to shake up the establishment. His ingredients: a night rehearsal, a young lady, his midlife woes and the Bogeyman. Will he reach the pinnacle of his art in one night?

SATURDAY, June 28 @ 4pm

Time After Time: A Catalog Of Traumatic Events
By D Hideo Maruyama
Directed by Ann-Giselle Spiegler
The world composed of snapshot after snapshot of small and global tragedies that make up daily life; it's a series of photographs in words: how daughters can become fathers of men.

SATURDAY, June 28 @ 6pm

New Years Play
By Howard Ho
Directed by Prince Gomolvilas
10...9...8...7...6...5...4...3...2...1...Now. We are dealt the hand with which we are born. What will your resolution be? A tale of memories, fantasies, astrologies, and computer science majors.

SUNDAY, June 29 @ 1pm

Myopia
By Rima Anosa
Directed by Benjamin Pohlmeier
"Love may be blind, but it sure isn't color blind."

The Rusty Nail Competition
By Lia Tu Directed
by Kipp Shiotani
"What if I told you I could make this nail worth hundreds of dollars? You'd think I was crazy. Well, you would be right. I can actually make it worth even more, thousands of dollars."

SUNDAY, June 29 @ 4pm

Novenas
By Vanessa Tamayo
Directed by Michel Henry
The Manong generation is dying, and prayers for the dead seem to line up night after night. Set against the droll rituals of mourning, a daughter returns to care for her dying father in the community that she destroyed.

Lito Loves Buck
By Jennifer Almiron
Directed by Darrell Kunitomi
The sun sets, night presses in-and two boys miss the bus home from Model U.N. In the "crackle-pop" of a night in the wilderness, the boys rise to the challenge of darkness. And war games, gunshots, and strange preteen urges go bump in the night.

SUNDAY, June 29 @ 7pm

Conversations with Sasquatch
By Carmen Balas
Directed by Kelvin Han Yee
Bob is not your average tourist. When Bigfoot meets the Big City, expectations implode and worldviews shatter. Which raises the question: What is human?

MONDAY, June 30 @ 7:30pm

Monsters in the Closet
By Elizabeth Mitsunaga
Directed by Cindy Marie Jenkins
What happens when you're re-introduced to the childhood monsters that lurked in your closet? Are they just silly "boogie-men" or perhaps something even more frightening? Come see if you recognize some of them for yourself.

Fixtures at an Exhibition
By Gary Kuwahara
Directed by Alberto Isaac
Old people can haz sex. Fo' shizzel.

Doggy Style
By Gary Kuwahara
Directed by Alberto Isaac
When you treat people like dogs, sometimes they bite back. Well, they're dogs...they do doggy things.

Questions? Contact Literary Manager Jeff Liu
JLiu@EastWestPlayers.org

The David Henry Hwang Writers Institute is supported in part by the James Irvine Foundation.

Ma-Yi Theatre (New York, NY)
Staged Reading
July 3, 2008

CULTURAL CENTER OF THE PHILIPPINES,
LITTLE THEATER

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

The reception that follows is by invitation only.

These are readings of selected excerpts from four plays, three of which are included in Ma-Yi Theater Company’s anthology “Savage Stage,” edited by Joi Barrios-Leblanc. The three plays from the book include “Project: Balangiga” by Sung Rno and Ralph Peña, “peregriNasyon” by Chris Millado, “and Middle Finger” by Han Ong. The fourth play takes selected scenes from Ma-Yi’s upcoming production of Ralph Peña’s new work “Nebraska,” which will premiere in New York City in 2009.

Reading Cast:
Nonie Buencamino, Shamaine Centenera-Buencamino,Nar Cabico, Red Concepcion, Jm De Guzman, Jj Ignacio, Irma Adlawan-Marasigan, Joel Torre.

ABOUT THE PLAYS AND PLAYWRIGHTS:

Project: Balangiga by Sung Rno and Ralph Peña is a documentary-style inquiry into the ongoing debate surrounding the proposed repatriation of the church bells taken by American soldiers from the town of Balangiga during the Philippine American War. The excerpted scene imagines a virtual town meeting between the residents of Balangiga and Cheyenne, Wyoming, where the bells are presently installed. Sung Rno is an award winning playwright and member of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab. He is a graduate of Harvard and Brown University.

peregriNasyon is Chris Millado’s trenchant play about the itinerant lives of the Manongs, the Filipino migrant workers who plied the labor routes of California’s Central Valley and the Alaskan canneries during the Great Depression. Millado’s play bends time and space in drawing parallel journeys between two brothers separated by distance, but bound by a common struggle to locate “home.” Chris Millado is the author of several award-winning plays, and was instrumental in the founding of Ma-Yi Theater Company. He is the current Associate Artistic Director of the Cultural Center of the Philippines.

Han Ong’s Middle Finger is a coming-of-age story set in an all-boys Catholic school. Riffing on Frank Wedekind’s “Spring’s Awakening,” Middle Finger gives the familiar turfs of teenage angst, sex, and religion a new dose of contemporary sizzle. Han Ong is one of the youngest recipients of the MacArthur Foundation “Genius” grant. Apart from “Middle Finger,” Ma-Yi Theater also produced the world premiere of Han Ong’s “Watcher.” He is a guest lecturer at Columbia University.

Nebraska is Ralph Peña’s new play about Immigration and extreme American Right-Wing Politics. The play imagines what might happen when an ancient Hindu goddess decides to take up residency in Nebraska, and finds herself pulled into the inner sanctum of a radical Christian organization. Ralph is the current artistic director of Ma-Yi Theater Company and one of the lead organizers of the first U.S. Artists contingent to the 2007 World Social Forum in Nairobi, Kenya.

Ma-Yi Theater Company is today the leading professional Asian American theater company and incubator of new Asian American plays in the United States. Since its founding in 1989, Ma-Yi Theater has won multiple Obie Awards, Drama Desk, Hewitt Design Awards, and was named a Theater of Excellence by the Drama League. The Ma-YI Writers Lab is the largest assembly of professional Asian American playwrights in the country, with 21 full-time writers. Ma-Yi Theater is headed by Executive Director Jorge Ortoll.

Joi Barrios-Leblanc has published: two volumes of poetry, “Ang Pagiging Babae ay Pamumuhay sa Panahon ng Digma,” and “Minatamis at Iba Pang Tula ng Pag-ibig.” She has won more than a dozen literary awards.. In 1999, Joi was among the 100 women of the 20th century honored as “Weaver of History” by the National Centennial Commission Women’s Sector. In 2004, she was honored as one of the Ten Outstanding Women in the Nation’s Service (TOWNS). Joi is the literary manager of Ma-Yi Theater Company.

Lighting Design: Barbie Tan-Tiongco
Stage Manager: Ave Uy
Directed by: Ralph B. Peña

Ma-Yi Theater Company’s participation is made possible by the support of the Asian Cultural Council (New York and Manila), and the Cultural Center of the Philippines. Special thanks also go to Tanghalang Pilipino and the Writers Bloc.

End of the Pavement: Micro New Works Festival (Portland, OR)
The Bathhouse
a short play by Annette Lee
July 5, 2008

A Man, a Woman, a Masseur. Is this afternoon in the Bathhouse the beginning or the end? (Originally written at the DHH Writers Institute at East West Players)

Presented by
An "anthology" performance of short plays built around a theme: Ubu Lives!, readings of eight plays inspired by Albert Jarry's Ubu Roi.

All End of the Pavement shows open at 8:00 PM, and all admissions are pay-what-you-will. For reservations or further information, call 503-312-6665 or e-mail Steve Patterson at splatterson@mindspring.com
http://blog.oregonlive.com/onstage/2008/06/end_of_the_pavement_micro_new.html

VACT (Vancover, BC)
The Odd Couple
by Neil Simon
July 17 to 27, 2008 @ Richmond Cultural Centre
August 13 to 21, 2008 @ The Roundhouse Performance Centre

The Odd Couple by Neil Simon tells the story of two mismatched roommates, Felix and Oscar. Felix, a neat and tidy health-nut newswriter, recently comes face-to-face with an end to his doomed marriage. In desperate need for a place to live, he moves in with his long-time friend, Oscar, a sloppy, slovenly divorced sports journalist. In the process of battling for their undying friendship, their differing lifestyles inevitably lead to cataclysmic conflicts and laughs! The Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre adds an extra twist to the story - one is a Canadian born Asian and the other is an immigrant. Directed by Rick Tae.

Rated General

Tickets In Advance - $22 on-line at www.vact.ca starting June 2008
Tickets at Door - $25 (cash only)

General Admission Seating
Show at 8pm nightly or 2pm Sunday matinee
Box Office Opens 90 minutes before showtime

For more information, visit www.vact.ca
For group rates, call 778.885.1973

Save a date!

[More information at http://www.vact.ca/oddcouple.htm]

See News story.

Lodestone Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Suddenly Last Summer
by Tennessee Williams
August 2 to 24, 2008

He was a pleasure seeker, corrupt and corrupting, she was the beautiful young cousin he had chosen as a victim... One of Tennessee Williams most haunting plays, the past meets truth in this Techno-Video inspired retelling of an American Classic.

See News story.

Assaulted Fish (Vancouver, BC)
Powell Street Festival
August 2, 2008

Mo'olelo Performing Arts Company (San Diego, CA)
Night Sky
by Susan Yankowitz
August 28 to September 21, 2008

Night Sky is the story of Anna, a brilliant astronomer. When a car accident renders her aphasic, her speech becomes a hodgepodge of disconnected words alternately poetic, funny, confusing and profound. She and her family must fight through the black holes of her mind and journey from her night sky into an unfamiliar world and a new language. This moving drama celebrates the resiliency of the human spirit and the universal need to find words to communicate our deepest thoughts and feelings.

Kumu Kahua (Honolulu, HI)
Da Maya
by Lee Cataluna
August 28 to September 21, 2008

San Francisco Opera (San Francisco, CA)
The Bonecutter's Daughter
music by Stewart Wallace
libretto by Amy Tan, from her novel
September 13 to October 3, 2008

Adapted from the best-selling novel by beloved Bay Area author Amy Tan, this world premiere tells a resonant story of belated intergenerational understanding that leads to emotional healing. A troubled Chinese-American woman learns the horrible secrets of her immigrant mother’s past in this touching and terrifying tale, set in both modern-day San Francisco and the Chinese countryside during the tumultuous events surrounding World War II.

Composer Stewart Wallace (Harvey Milk) incorporates the timbres and textures of Chinese music into his highly expressive and lyrical score—an American opera with roots in China. Mezzo-soprano Zheng Cao, the splendid Suzuki in San Francisco Opera’s recent Madama Butterfly, heads the cast of this deeply personal work. Star of the Lincoln Center Festival’s historic production of The Peony Pavilion, Kunju singer Qian Yi has been acclaimed by the The New York Times Magazine as “China’s reigning opera princess.”

Approximate running time: 2 hours, 30 minutes including one intermission. Sung in English with English supertitles

World Premiere San Francisco Opera Production

Mu Performing Arts (Minneapolis, MN)
Under the Porcelain Mask:
Asian American women speak out!
Featuring two one act plays:
Anatomy of a Hmong Girl by May Lee and
Asiamnesia by Sun Mee Chomet
September 13 to October 5, 2008
The Playwright’s Center

Silk Road Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Yohen
by Philip Kan Gotanda
September 18 to November 2, 2008

Sumi, a divorced Japanese woman, and James, an African American GI, meet in post-World War II Japan, fall in love, and marry. Nearly four decades later, now living in a quiet Los Angeles suburb, their seemingly durable marriage, tempered by years of fighting prejudice together, is threatened as Sumi decides James must move out of their house and begin dating her. More than a study of clashing cultures, Yohen is an intimately observed, poetically resonant story of two longtime partners who discover that the person one perceives in a new culture is not necessarily the person "left behind" in one's own.

SIS Productions (Seattle, WA)
Sex in Seattle, Episode 16
September 19 to October 18, 2008

SIS Productions (Seattle, WA)
Ixnay
by Paul Kikuchi
September 21, 28 and October 12, 2008

SIS presents readings of Ixnay by Paul Kikuchi on September 21, 28 & October 12 at 4pm at Richard Hugo House. Raymond Kobayashi awaits his next life at the Reincarnation Station, only to find out he's being sent back again as an Asian American. A comedy about a usually polite Asian causing major havoc when he ixnays his next life. This will be a sneak preview of the new script before its world premiere production at East West Players in Los Angeles in 2009.

Stockton, CA
The Romance of Magno Rubio
by Lonnie Carter
October 4 and 5, 2008

TWO SHOWS!
8pm Saturday Oct. 4
2pm Sunday Oct. 5

The entire NYC cast of the Obie-award winning Off-Broadway play, THE ROMANCE OF MAGNO RUBIO, will come to downtown Stockton in two LMF benefit performances, 8pm, Saturday October 4th and 2pm Sunday, Oct. 5th, at downtown Stockton’s spectacular historic Bob Hope Theatre (formerly the Fox). The play, which is set in the 1930s, is about five Filipino farmworkers struggling to achieve the American Dream as they eke out an existence working in the fields and living in a San Joaquin Delta bunkhouse. This incredible play has been performed all over the world in cities such as Honolulu, NYC, Manila, New Haven and LA — even in Romania — and now, the Little Manila Foundation will bring the play home to Stockton!

Cast members include legendary Filipino actor Bernardo Bernardo, Paolo Montalban, Arthur Acuna, Ramon de Ocampo and Jojo Gonzales as “Magno.”

THE ROMANCE OF MAGNO RUBIO, written by Lonnie Carter and directed by Loy Arcenas, and produced by the reknowned Ma-Yi Theatre Company of NYC, is based on a short story written by Carlos Bulosan. Bulosan, author of the classic _America Is In the Heart_ (1946), lived in Stockton’s Little Manila periodically from the 1930s until his death in 1956. The play centers around the experiences of five Pinoys who yearn for love, friendship, and hope as they follow crops and work tirelessly in the fields around Stockton and the South Bay Area. And what better month to come to Stockton (the historic heart of Filipino America!) and watch this play but October: Filipino American History Month!

Tickets will go on sale in July at http://www.bobhopetheatre.com.

Tickets: $25-45, with $5 discount for seniors and students.

For more info, go to http://www.littlemanila.net.

Interested in sponsoring the play or advertising in the souvenir program?

Email at email@littlemanila.net.

SIS Productions (Seattle, WA)
Mmmmm...A Sampler of 6 Insatiable Plays
October 5, 2008

MMMMM . . . A SAMPLER OF 6 INSATIABLE PLAYS:
The SIS Writers Group will present short excerpts from new scripts by local Asian American playwrights on Sunday, October 5 at 4pm at Richard Hugo House.

Mu Performing Arts (Minneapolis, MN)
Mu Daiko at the Ritz ‘08
November 14 to 23, 2008
The Ritz Theater

SIS Productions (Seattle, WA)
Insatiable: Seattle's 3rd Annual Asian American Playwrights' Festival
November 15, 2008

Don't miss this day-long festival of new script readings by local Asian American playwrights on Saturday, November 15, 2008 at Prima Vera Arts Center.

Northlight Theatre (Skokie, IL)
Po Boy Tango
by Kenneth Lin
January 7 to February 15, 2009

A celebration of the human spirit and the joy of cooking, Po Boy Tango tells the story of Richie Po - a Chinese immigrant who turns to his estranged friend Gloria to help him recreate his mother's "Great Banquet." Despite the challenges of shark fin soup, duck po boy sandwiches and underlying cultural tensions, Richie and Gloria find common ground through their shared humor and the interaction of traditional Taiwanese cuisine and African-American "Soul Food." With the help of lessons from Po Mama’s television cooking show, the two discover a deeper understanding of food, culture and the nature of friendship.

Mu Performing Arts (Minneapolis, MN)
Ching Chong Chinaman
a comedy by Lauren D. Yee
February 14 to March 1, 2009
Mixed Blood Theatre

Silk Road Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Pangs of the Messiah
By Motti Lerner
February 19 to April 12, 2009

Directed by Jennifer Green

Set in 2012 amidst the signing of a peace treaty between Israel and the Palestinians, Motti Lerner's Pangs of the Messiah is an apocalyptic yet fiercely humane drama about eight West Bank Jewish settlers pitted against an Israel they feel betrayed by. The play focuses on a religious family that finds itself torn between fighting to stay in their settlement and obeying their government's decision to dismantle it. Left hanging in the balance is the legacy of their beliefs.

SIS Productions (Seattle, WA)
The Theory of Everything
by Prince Gomolvilas
February 2008

"A refreshing look at Asian-American issues of race, gender and identity, layered with deeper questions of life and death. Gomolvilas's writing is tight, intelligent and funny. . . likeable characters and sharply written dialogue . . . a play worth seeing for its humor and humanity." - The Business Times, Singapore

Seven Asian Americans gather atop a Las Vegas wedding chapel every week to watch for UFO's and end up discovering their own unidentified internal issues. This vibrant and moving comedy, which explores the politics of race, identity and faith, won the International Herald Tribune/SRT Playwriting Competition, the Julie Harris Playwright Award, and the PEN Center USA West Literary Award for Drama.

Mu Performing Arts, Stages Theatre (Minneapolis, MN)
Baseball Saved Us
staged adaptation by Katie Leo
based on the children's book by Ken Mochizuki
March 13 to April 4, 2009
Mixed Blood Theater

Seattle Repertory Theatre (Seattle, WA)
A Winter People
by Chay Yew
April 9 to May 9, 2009

A compelling, lyrical adaptation of "The Cherry Orchard" set in revolutionary China

In Chay Yew’s achingly beautiful and emotionally powerful adaptation, matriarch Xia leaves America to return home to pre-communist China where she discovers the ancient family estate where she grew up is facing financial ruin. Threatened with the loss of her property and the deterioration of her traditional values in changing times, Xia struggles against impossible odds to buy back her home and keep her family intact. This is a bold new look at Anton Chekhov’s celebrated classic

Mu Performing Arts, Stepping Stone Theatre (Minneapolis, MN)
Hmong Tiger Tales
by Cha Yang and R.A. Shiomi
May 8 to 31, 2009
SteppingStone Theatre

Mu Performing Arts (Minneapolis, MN)
Flower Drum Song
Music by Richard Rogers, Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein
Book by David Henry Hwang
June 27 to July 12, 2009
McKnight Theatre, Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

2nd National Asian American Theatre Festival
New York City
Fall 2009