History for

• East West Players
• PanAsian Repertory Theatre
• Northwest Asian American Theatre

Mabasa, Ed

• The Kiss (Bindlestiff, 2006)

MacDonald, Jim

• The Untitled Mickey Tiles Project (EWP, 2005)
  Mickey Tiles can motivate, inspire and change the lives of millions of people if he can just survive one more day.

Macaraeg, Darah

• Boxing Rule (Bindlestiff, 2006)

Madlansacay, Noel

• Like Rain (AATC, 1999)
  In Like Rain, you will encounter a mathematician, a Wall Street banker, a graduate student and a juggler who are locked in cyberspace, and the light goes off. Uh-uh!....Did the dead gay man turn the power off? People look for love: puppy, ideal, lost love. Loving men, women and yourself. This is a world where the living creates the virtual realities of the dead and searches for the ultimate number of pi. Will they find the formula that will solve everything, and discover the last light bulb joke?

Maeshiba, Naoko and Ware, Kendra

• Recollections (Dance Place, Source Theatre, 2000)
  Short play

Maeda, Kevin

• Blowing Thirty (EWP: Paper or Plastic, 1999)

Magwili, Dom

• The Descent of Chrome (Lodestone, 2006) At the southern-most tip of Argentina, something not quite human escapes the destruction of a cloistered abby and begins a long journey north.  Meanwhile, a fifth generation clone of an international industrialist hires Wing Saito, a female cyborg thief, to steal a formula for immortality.  With the help of a 200 year-old hologram, Wing plans the heist and uncovers corruption, betrayal, and machines in love.

Mah, Dominic

• Search for Water (Lodestone, 2005)
  Missed connections and consensual kidnappings revolve in this mysterious comedy about losing yourself in the ones you love.

Mahhija, Anju

• Meeting with Lord Yama (Rasik Arts, 2007)
  By a strange set of circumstances, Brinda Pillai finds herself in Yamapura, the abode of the Lord of Death according to Hindu mythology. Contrary to expectations, Lord Yama turns out to be quite a ladies' man. While Brinda wonders if he will give her a fresh lease on life, she is forced to see life itself afresh as he questions her. Adding to this unusual, oft-comic situation is the presence of Lord Yama's pet dog.
  

Majumdar, Anita

• Fish Eyes (2004?)
• The Misfit (2008)
  This dark comedy about honour killings introduces us to Naznin, formerly a respected classical Kathak dancer. Naznin runs away to India to be with her aspiring pop singer lover, Lucky Punjabi, a boyfriend of her own choosing - the results are dire when Lucky is killed by angry villagers, disgusted with Naznin for running away with a man who isn't her husband. Naznin is disowned by her Canadian family and finds asylum as choreographer for the Taj Mahal Dance Company, a group of classically trained dancers who perform traditional Mughal-era Indian dance at Indian wedding receptions to English MTV pop music.

Mandvi, Aasif

• Sakina's Restaurant (American Place Theatre, 1998)

Mapa, Alec

• I Remember Mapa (ATW, 1998)
  Winner of the L.A. Weekly Award for Best Solo Performance, I Remember Mapa is the comic journey of a gay Filipino American actor struggling for work, love and acceptance. From the Broadway stage to the California Pizza Kitchen, I Remember Mapa examines the role of Asian American actors and revisits a childhood of being "a dorky kid in glasses and corrective shoes.
• Pointless (East West: Word Up!, 1999)
  Pointless is a hilarious and outrageous performance by Alec Mapa. Come spend the evening with the award-winning actor/performer as he takes to the stage and rants about his favorite four-letter word: love. In the direct fire of Cupid's many arrows, he also discusses the issues of the day, dishes celebrities and talks about his favorite subject: himself.

Martens, Craig

• The Pursuit of Happiness (EWP: Paper or Plastic, 2000)

Maruyama, D. Hideo

• Accidental Nexus or An Illustration of Billie Holiday's Rendition of "What a Difference a Day Makes (EWP, 2003)
  A woman is killed in a random pointless mass killing. Her death turns out to be a nexus point.
• Sato's Dream in Blue (EWP, 2006)
  What is the American Dream? A Nisei guitar maker tries to figure it out with the help of a Black blues player in the 1950s; a biker, a bartender and illegal Mexican worker try to figure it out in the Reagan 1980s, and the blues player in old age reexamines Sato's Dream in the 2000s with a Thai guitar playing apprentice. Is America the place to be?
• Time After Time: A Catalog Of Traumatic Events (EWP, 2007)
  How do you move from Winter to Summer? 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.

McMullin, Dan Taulapapa

• Bikini Boy (AATC, 1999)
  A young research writer at an American right wing think tank pens essays justifying the bombing of a U.S. territorial island in the Pacific, not knowing that it was the homeland of his mother. She prays daily in her prayer closet in her new found home in Minnesota for the salvation of her son through the ex-homosexual movement: Home is not home. His journey takes him from cities of the plain to islands of the sea, and a banned past. Also known as Sodomie.
• Pink Heaven (AATC, 2000)
  This three character play takes place in American Samoa. A dark tale of an old man who returns to Samoa after a lifetime in the U.S. Unwelcome by his eldest son whom he never sees, he is slowly being poisoned to death by his daughter-in-law. A story of contemporary Polynesian life under American colonialism in the South Pacific.

Mendoza, Edgar

• Lion Plaza ()
  A iff on the Cyrano story.
• All the Earth (EWP 2002)
  It began as a paradise on Pangea. But as soon as the Earth divided itself, so did its people

Milado, Chris

• Peregrinasyon (Wandering Nation)

Mims, Cheri

• LoveStoneHeart (Bindlestiff, 2006)

Mirza, Rehana

• Barriers (Indocenter, 2002)
  With the homecoming of the only daughter, Sunima, who is returning from NYC to announce her pending engagement, the play quickly unravels as the mixed Muslim family is forced to confront past betrayals and issues and eventually ends up reaching a critical mass point.
• The Good Muslim (Ma-Yi, 2006)
  When an unlikely friendship that blossoms between Nora, a 28-year old, club-hopping atheist, and Farzana, a sheltered 19-year old Muslim girl, will it be like Felix and Oscar, or Bush and Osama?
• The Radio Diaries of Hank, Yank & Prank (Desipina, 20060
  A semi-serious comedy about a radio show that wakes up New York with frivolous pranks, and the intern who comes along to reform it, one fart joke at a time.
• A Dose of Reality (2g, 2008)
  Gemna is tired of watching reality TV. So she’s decided to make everyone else watch her. Find out what happens when you stop being yourself, and start being real.

Mitsunaga, Elizabeth

• Monsters in the Closet (East West, 2008)
  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.
  

Miyagawa, Chiori

• Yesterday's Window ()
  Short play.
• Jamaica Avenue (NY International Fringe Festival, 1998)
• American Dreaming
• Nothing Forever
• Woman Killer (Crossing Jamaica, 2001)
  Two Brooklyn families are torn apart in this startling new drama about the nature and origin of evil, inspired by a 1721 Bunraku puppet play from Japan.
• Fire Dance
• Broken Morning
  Broken Morning is a poetic dialectic between the prison industry, the prisoners, their loved ones, and the society that made them that way. Taking place in a sewing factory at the Ellis One Unit of the Huntsville State Prison where men awaiting execution go to work every weekday, Broken Morning weaves personal stories and confessionals of sorrow, regret, pain and optimism. With reenactments and overlapping dialogue, the play illustrates how violence, poverty and struggle against society are connected to us all. The spare and simple songs deepen the expression of these conflicts.
• Thousand Years Waiting (2006)
  created in collaboration with Bruce Odland, Masaya Kiritake, and Sonoko Kawahara. Kiritake is Master in Otome Bunraku, which is an early 20th century offshoot of traditional (17th century) Bunraku Puppet Theatre. In Otome (Japanese word for female) Bunraku, a single woman performer dances with a four-foot puppet. It's a nearly extinct artform; only three women perform it professionally today. The play contains three simultaneous realities: present-day New York City, Japan circa 1000, and inside The Tale of the Genji, the world's first novel. The history of storytelling is woven like a spider's web and the woman in the present steps in and out of real and fictional worlds in the past.
• Resisting Forgetting ()
• Leaf (Manhattan Theatre Club, 2006)

Miyake, Perry

• What the Enemy Looks Like (East West, 1980)
• Visitors from Nagasaki (East West, 1984)
• Interracial Relations (LATC Asian Theater Lab, 1990)
• Doughball (East West, 1991)
• Motty-Chon (East West, 2006) Martin is 48-years old, single, works a dead-end job and lives at home with his aging Nisei parents Mits and Helen. His bachelor status is the perfect target for his meddling parents and their gossip-hungry friends. Then Gina, a white, 24-year old pierced and tattooed punker chick enters Martin's life. What's a parent to do? Motty-Chon is a comedy that shatters stereotypes about parental expectations and the search for love from the playwright of Visitors from Nagasaki and Doughball.

Moore, Chinsook Kim

• Jung/ture (EWP: Paper or Plastic, 1999)

Morizono, Lesli Jo
Lesli-Jo Morizono's hometown is Berkeley, California, where she received a BA in psychology from the University of California. As a young girl, she dreamed of being an actress, and at the age of fifteen, she won an acting scholarship to the American Conservatory Theatre's Summer Congress Training Program. Morizono says, "Luckily, I learned in time that I didn't have the talent or a strong stomach for acting. Now I write plays and screenplays, something I enjoy enormously." In 1992 she graduated with an MFA in dramatic writing from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She lives with her husband, Toshio, and her dog, Washington (a.k.a. "mongrel from hell"), in New York City.

• In the Valley of the Human Spirit (1992)
• Fried Rice (NY Shakespeare Festival, 1993)
  A young woman orders fried rice and sees God amidst the bean sprouts; unfortunately, she and the restaurant's African American owner can't agree on the color and gender of the deity.
• Now I Lie (Gaia/Cuchipinoy, 2003)
  The story of three generations of Chinese-American women who are on the run from their past, a curse on their bloodline in the form of a witch-dog that hunts their offspring.
• In Freakish Times ()
  The characters are responding to having seven fingers on one hand, and other effects of the apocalypse.

Muki, Mari

• As Yet Undetermined Life (EWP: Paper or Plastic, 1999)

Muruyama, Milton

• All I Asking for is My Body (Kuma Kahuna, 1999)

Nakase, Justine

• E-mmaculate (EWP: Paper or Plastic, 2000)
• Iphigenia in the Fog ()

Natarajan, Meena

• From the Ashes (Pangea World Theatre, 2007)
  Using the immediacy of street theater as the idiom, From the Ashes explores the global question of migration and movement in a multi-lingual, physically charged performance with live music.

Narasaki, Ken

• Ghosts and Baggage (LA Theatre Center, 1998)
  A comedy about love, fear and hope. In a single night filled with desire and revelation, Narasaki tells the story of two Sansei who meet when one returns a faulty "anger management tape for Asian Pacific men" to the other's New Age bookstore. Oliver and Sara then must face a Spirit Guide, the ghost of an Ex-husband, a Dead Dad, and a devil boyfriend to find the truth about themselves.
• Innocent When You Dream (EWP, 2003)
  Eighty year-old Nisei Dan Yamada has suffered a catastrophic stroke and his grown children do their best to convince the hospital to help them pull the plug. Meanwhile, back in the 1940s, a young Dan meets a girl whom he comforts, but can never understand. Both time periods move forward as the play progresses, until Dan finally finds forgiveness, and perhaps regains a measure of innocence, when past and present finally connect.
• The Mikado Project (Lodestone, 2007)
  A struggling Asian American acting troupe tries to create their own deconstructed politicized version of THE MIKADO, while dealing with grant deadlines, interpersonal problems, sexual/political issues and an ex-lead actor-turned-TV star.

Nee, Phil

• The Last of the Nees (1999)
  Phil Nee’s One-Man Show about Growing Up Asian in America.

Ng, John

• I (Toronto Fringe 2001)
  A Chinese Canadian family must decide whether or not to risk sheltering their Chinese God-sister who has entered the country illegally.
• Joy Geen (See You Again) ()
• The Wonder of Larry Kwong (fu-GEN, 2005)
  He was only 24 in 1948, but Larry Kwong had already achieved the quintessential Canadian Dream: to play in the National Hockey League. Now 81, an unexpected birthday gift - a framed shot of him receiving the key to New York's Chinatown 57 years earlier for becoming the first Asian in professional hockey - rekindles the journey that he took to reach his childhood goal. From a simple life in small-town Vernon, B.C., to the frenetic urban world of the Big Apple and, finally, a date with destiny at the Montreal Forum...and a fellow named Rocket Richard. Kwong recalls each step with humble honesty and a trace of regret. The final question: Did I do enough?

Ngai, Serin
Serin Ngai graduated from the University of Washington with a B.A. in English: Creative Writing. After graduation, she worked in the publishing industry for almost three years, starting out as a freelance researcher, and moving on to jobs such as assistant editor, copywriter, PR writer, and art manager. She has acted in a variety of groups from OPM to Repertory Actors Theatre and is a founding member/producer of SIS Productions.

• Sex in Seattle, Episode 1: Deceptions and Reflections
• Sex in Seattle, Episode 2: Other Women
• Sex in Seattle, Episode 3: The Colors of Love
• Sex in Seattle, Episode 4: New Year Confessions
• Sex in Seattle, Episode 6: Vicious Valentines
• Sex in Seattle, Episode 7: Graphic Images
  
  Detailed synopses available at http://www.sexinseattle.org/_wsn/page3.html
  
  
• Peace and Truth (SIS Productions, 2006)
  Peace & Truth explores the approaching death of an elderly Chinese American woman.
• Our Last Hours (SIS Productions Insatiable! 2 Reading Festival, 2007)
      Three sisters grapple with the state of their lives after dealing with the untimely passing of their mother.
• Quality Time (SIS Productions Insatiable! 2 Reading Festival, 2007 & 2008)
     Meng and Tristan escape to a nearby hotel over a weekend to spend quality time together as a married couple.  However, as time ticks away, the quality of their time spent together becomes uncertain as their weekend escape evolves into inconvenient exposures and disclosures.

Nguyen, Anh

• Untitled (EWP: Paper or Plastic, 2000)

Nguyen, Derek

• Last Year's Kisses (2nd Generation, 1999)
  Three people, two couples, four New Year's Eves... Carlye can't shake her memories. A dress. A hotel room. A found receipt. Billy, her husband can't shake his infidelities and his drinking. Mai, her lover, can't shake her need to be with someone. New Year's Eve is a time to clean the slate....
• Monster (2nd Generation, 2001)
  Monster is a film-noirish detective story set in the backdrop of the desert community of Southern California. Tang Tran, a private investigator, is hired to search for Jonny Bonnard, an adopted Vietnamese teenager, who has run away from home after the brutal beating of another Vietnamese boy.  As Detective Tran interrogates the cast of characters who are close to Jonny, secrets are revealed, lies exposed, and Detective Tran is horrified to discover that he himself may be a key player in the search for Jonny's past.
• Mother's Milk ()

Nguyen, Qui
Originating from Southern Arkansas, Qui Nguyen holds a MFA in Playwriting from the Ohio University School of Theatre, a certificate in screenwriting from the Imaginary Academy in Croatia, as well as a BA in Theatre from Louisiana Tech University. As a playwright, Qui’s plays have been presented at The Goodman, Pan Asian Rep, Greenbrier Valley Theatre, Center Stage NYC, Stella Adler Studios NYC, as well as The Wing and Groove Theatre of Chicago where his play, Stand Up Absurdity, received much critical acclaim under the direction of Amy Tourne. He has worked extensively as a playwriting/stage-combat instructor for such places as Ohio University, The North Louisiana Arts Council, The Chicago Park District, South Arkansas Arts Council, numerous State Thespian Festivals, and The Rabid Vamps Fight Studio, which he also founded.

• Stand Up Absurdity (Groove Theatre, Chicago)
  Ten minute play.
• Belted Blue, Bleeding Yellow (AATC, 2003)
  The play follows father Quang Nguyen and his son Troung and the generation gap that divides them. Told through the background of Martial Arts, the story explores topics such as the search for Identity and the nature of family.
• Stained Glass Ugly (Vampire Cowboy Theatre, 2003)
  In his Stained Glass Ugly Qui Nguyen asks the question, "Would you still love me if I was ugly?" Adam is horribly disfigured ... and recently engaged. Over its one-act length, ...Ugly examines Adam's relationship with his fiancee, Madison and whether the relationship is strong enough to survive one of them becoming grotesquely deformed.
• Trial by Water (2003)
  Trial By Water is the odyssey of two teenage brothers forced to flee Vietnam in the middle of the night by boat. When the ship's engine breaks down, their dreams of a better life are suddenly shattered by the nightmare of being stranded out at sea. With each day passing without any sign of rescue, each brother must confront his own issues of mortality and morality when faced with unthinkable acts of survival.
• A Beginner's Guide to Decide (Vampire Cowboy Theatre, 2005)
• Living Dead in Denmark (Vampire Cowboy Theatre, 2006)
  Living Dead in Denmark is an action adventure sequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet following the quest of a resurrected Ophelia, Lady MacBeth, and Juliet as they try to save Denmark from an impending zombie invasion.
• Blood in America (2g, 2008)
  Hung Tran has finally made it to America after a tumultuous escape from Vietnam that cost the lives of both his parents and his brother. Now living with his Aunt and rebellious cousin in the state of Arkansas, Hung must learn to adapt to a new life filled with southern drawls, trailer parks, and Super Mario Brothers while being haunted by the sins of his past.

Nhan, Ngo Thanh

• Hugging Beer Bar (Peeling, 2003)
  A married, traveling Vietnamese businessman mixes romance and capitalism at a bar where girls make a living as best they can.

Nhuong, Huynh Quang

• Dance of the Wandering Souls (1997)

Nishikawa, Lane
Nishikawa is a veteran theatre artist who served as Artistic Director of San Francisco's Asian American Theater Company and as actor, writer, director and dramaturg for over 55 productions there for nearly two decades. Nishikawa is best known for his acclaimed solo shows exploring Asian American identity: Life in the Fast Lane, I'm On a Mission From Buddha (adapted for TV and aired on PBS), and Mifune and Me, which have toured to over 75 cities in the U.S., Europe and Canada. He has also worked with the American Conservatory Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Repertory Theater, Old Globe Theatre of San Diego, Ford's Theater in Washington, DC, Berkeley Repertory Theater, the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Repertory Theater, Northwest Asian American Theater, El Teatro Campesino, LATC and the Odyssey Theater amongst others.Nishikawa recently appeared in the national tour of Gate of Heaven, a drama that he wrote and starred in about a Nisei soldier who liberates a Jewish survivor from the Dachau concentration camp in Germany, and the Ballad of Yachiyo at the South Coast Repertory Theater. The extensive Gate of Heaven tour included a run at the U.S. National Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC. Nishikawa's numerous film credits include: Wayne Wang's Eat a Bowl of Tea, Steven Okazaki's Living on Tokyo Time and American Sons (on PBS), and Wim Wender's Until the End of the World. Nishikawa recently completed his first film, When We Were Warriors. Nishikawa is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards including: the Solo Performance Fellowship from the NEA, the Profiles of Excellence award from ABC-TV, and the Ruby Yoshino Schaar Playwrights and the Henry and Chiyo Kuwahara Award from the National Japanese American Citizens League. He has also been honored by the Harvard Foundation for his continued contributions to American Performing Arts and Inter-Cultural Race Relations and is the recipient of the JACCC's Humanitarian Award. Lane Nishikawa was the first Asian American to receive an U.C. Regents Fellowship at U.C. Santa Barbara where he directed the first Asian American production on campus.

• Mifune & Me
  The title refers to Nishikawa's admiration for Mifune, whose typical role was that of the samurai warrior - brave, fierce, awe-inspiring. Nishikawa juxtaposes Mifune as a role model for Asian American actors with the image of the Asian in the media, its stereotypes and realities. His journey provides a hilarious look at the personal sideof theater, film and television, a exploration of what it means to be an actor in America with an Asian face.
• I'm on a Mission from Buddha
• Gate of Heaven (Old Globe Theatre,1996)
  Take two WWII vets, one Jewish, one Japanese American. Mix on the battlefield in Europe. Follow the two for over forty years. The result: one moving story.
• Life in the Fast Lane ()

Nishikawa-Hirano, Miki

• Kabuki Underground (EWP 2002)
  Ghosts who love too much, an old man and his granddaughter, an alcoholic underground Kabuki actor, an agorophobe with a camera...and a Mime. Who can save them?
• Whispers (EWP 2003)
  Behind every door ... a second chance.
  Between every mother and daughter ... discovery.
  And in every family ... an Uncle John.

Nofre, Henrietta Chico
A Los Angeles native, she is an alumnus of the East West Players‚ David Henry Hwang Writers Institute whose short stories were recently included in the anthology Going Home to a Landscape: Writing by Filipinas.

• Driving Lessons (EWP: Paper or Plastic, 1999)
• Driving in L. A. (2nd place winner, EWP's Got Laughs, 2005)
  Driving in L.A. focuses on Gracie, a 23-year old who lives with her mother and never learned to drive, and Carlo, a five-foot-three certified driving instructor who loves wearing tight leather pants.

Ogawa, Aya

• oph3lia (HERE, 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.

Ogawa, Ruby

• right door, left door (EWP, 2000)

Oh, Tony

• Fergana (EWP, 2006)
  Can faith in God survive corruption and ambition? A zealous pastor grooms his two sons to go overseas and expand his church. Five years later, the brothers reunite at their father’s funeral, trying to piece together the remains of their faith, family and themselves.

Okimoto, Jeannie

• Uncle Hideki (NWAAT, 1995)
• Uncle Hideki and the Empty Nest (React, 2005)
  Ten years have passed since we last visited the Suyama family. Helen has remarried, Rodney and Suzanne have grown, and Uncle Hideki is back for another visit in this world premiere of the amusing sequel by local playwright and bestselling children's author, Jean Davies Okimoto.

Okita, Dwight

• The Rainy Season (Chicago Dramatists, 1993)
  A tale of romance between Harry and Antonio...
• The Salad Bowl Dance (commissioned by the Chicago Historical Society),
  which looks at the aftermath of the Japanese American relocation camps as internees resettled in great numbers in Chicago after the war.
• Richard Speck (American Blues Theater)
  a black-comic look at the Richard Speck murders and the dangers of sleeping on a futon.

Oliver, Anthony Michael

• Theme Park (Kumu Kahua, 2002)
• Teacher, Teacher (Kumu Kahua, 2006)
  Sharon Kido is a forty-year-old, unmarried college English teacher who, as she describes it, loses her cool on the last day of class and scolds her students for being drifters, dreamers, and slobs who can't speak, dress, or even walk properly, and have no manners, respect, goals, or plans. Gavin, one of her students, takes her words to heart and later asks her to help him change by giving him lessons over the summer. When the local-style Pygmalion process begins, the teacher-student relationship is maintained. But, as the weeks go by, the situation changes. Playwright Anthony Michael Oliver was the winner of the 2002 Kumu Kahua Theatre and University of Hawaii-Manoa Playwriting Contest Hawaii prize for his play Theme Park. 

Omata, Warren

• S.A.M. I Am (East West, 1995)
  The comedic play explores the contemporary racial politics of dating. John Hamabata, a single Asian male, seeks Jackie Shibata, a single Asian female who has a thing for white guys. To win her heart, he tries to become as white as possible. On the periphery is John's roommate, Lohman Chin, a S.A.M. into blond S.W.F.s and Jackie's roommate, Betty Hamabata, a S.A.F. into M.A.'s and Ph.D.s.
• Mystery Play (Deep Yellow, 1998)
  An intriguing look into the nature of faith.

O'Malley, Sean TC

• To the Last Hawaiian Soldier (Kuma Kahua, 2002)
  This drama juxtaposes the 19th Century tale of Robert Wilcox, King David Kalakaua and his sister, Queen Lili'uokalani in the days before the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy with a contemporary story about a young Hawaiian man, frustrated by a lack of progress in the sovereignty movement, who is driven to an act of terrorism, bringing to question the use of violence as a means of achieving idealistic ends.

Ong, Han

• Chang Fragments
• M
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  DLE
  FINGER
  (A play in 24 scenes) (East West, 2000)
• The Suitcase Trilogy: Swoony Planet (Ma-Yi, 1997)
  Han Ong’s SWOONY PLANET is the remarkable story of immigrants searching for identity in the vast American landscape. Kirtana, a single, Indian woman, seeks out her runaway son Farouk. Jessica, a Filipina who has adjusted to life in the Midwest, aids her search, leading Kirtana to an unimaginable world no child should experience. Artie, Jessica’s son, races to find the father who abandoned him 16 years ago. Each, longing for wholeness and the chance to swoon, takes on an unforgettable, compromising journey.

Ong, Henry
Ong is a journalist-turned-playwright who worked for several newspapers and magazines before embarking on his theatrical writing career at the University of Iowa. He is an internationally-produced playwright whose signature play and first foray into playwriting was an instant success. The one person play, Madame Mao's Memories" is based on the life of Chairman Mao's widow, Jiang Oing, was last seen at the Old Globe Theatre is San Diego in 1994. Ong is a member of the Dramatist Guild, the Los Angeles Stage Alliance and the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights. He is an Artistic Associate and Literary Manager of Playwrights’ Arena.

• Madame Mao's Memories (1994)
  Based on the life of Chairman Mao's widow.
• Fabric (1998)
  A docu-drama about the Thai garment workers’ slavery case, which was staged at the Singapore Arts Festival by the Singapore Repertory Theater in 2000.
• Odd Birds (Artists against Oppression, 1999) libretto
• Dream of the Red Chamber (2000)
  Based on the Chinese classic
• Lady White Snake and other Folk Takes ()
• People Like Me ()
• Dim Sum and Then Some (AATC, 2001)
  Twelve Minute Play
• Sweet Karma (Playwrights' Arena, 2002)
  Based on the life and death of the Oscar-winning actor, Haing Ngor.
• The Old Lady Who Popped Out of the Sidewalk and Became A Christmas Tree (Milton School, 2003)
  A morality play about a poor man struggling to keep his family fed, and the temptation to become enormously rich when he encounters an Old Lady who pops out of the sidewalk.
• Rachel Ray (Pacific Resident Theatre, 2007)
  Set in the idyllic English countryside of Devonshire, Rachel Ray tells the story of the eponymous heroine pursued by the dashing, ambitious and persistent Luke Rowan who is at the same time battling to gain control of the local brewery. Populated by a host of unforgettable Trollopian characters, Rachel Ray could be the liveliest and most compact of dramas from the pen of that greatest of Victorian storytellers, Anthony Trollope. Adaptated by playwright Henry Ong, this may be the very first attempt at bringing the 19th century novel to the stage.

Ong, Warren

• Eye in the Sky (Stanford Asian American Theatre Project, 1981)

Otalvaro-Hormillosa, Gigi

• Cosmic Blood (AATC, 2002)
  Cosmic Blood by Gigi Otalvaro-Hormillosa, explores the concept of mestizaje, the Latin American and Filipino term used to describe the race mixture of Spanish and indigenous blood as a result of colonialism, from a perspective informed by history, contemporary culture and racial formation and creative, spiritual speculation about the future. By redefining mestizaje to incorporate mixed race and queer identities that take on countless forms as in the case of multicultural San Francisco, Otalvaro-Hormillosa paints a picture of the revolutionary potential for such subversive, yet fluid identities to dismantle the binaries created by colonial constructs relating to race and gender. Live sound, composed and performed by Melissa Dougherty.

Oyama, Sachi

• Yearnings ()
• Oyakoshinju: Deathbond
• Day Care (LATC)
  One Act
• The Painter (The Complex)
  One Act
• Boat (Deaf West)
  One Act
• Kampuchea (Barnsdall Park)
  One Act
• Homeland (Playwrights Theatre)
• Tryst (Cal Arts)
• Endangered Species (Interact)
• Gate of Heavenly Peace,
  a musical, in Burbank, California
• Poodles, a one-act commissioned by the Working theatre in New York.
• Imelda (EWP, 2005)
  Lyrics by Aaron Coleman and music by Nathan Wang. This new musical details the rise, fall and exile of the infamous Imelda Marcos using song and dance. Does the story of the First Lady of the Philippines go beyond the shoes? In this musical biography, an Imelda emerges aggressive, naïve and ultimately discovers that her husband‚s newfound power is a means to obtain everything she was once denied. Thief or political ploy? Greed or need?