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Kim's Convenience by Ins Choi
​Aurora Theatre Company 

Scenic Designer: Isabel and Moriah Curley-Clay
Lighting Designer: Rochelle Riley
Costume Designer: Alan Yeong
Sound Designer: Jeremiah Long
Props Designer: Kristin Talley
​Projection Designer: Daniel Pope
Stage Manager: Victoria Broyles
Supertitles Translator: Jihye Kim
Costume Director: Alice Neff  
Asst. Costume Designer: Sydni Stephenson 


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​Mr. Kim dispenses fatherly wisdom, history lessons and potato chips from behind his convenience store counter. A Korean immigrant, he planned a better life and legacy in Toronto. When he receives an unexpected offer for his store situated in an up-and-coming neighborhood, he has a difficult decision. Take the money and give in to the developers that closed his wife’s beloved church or convince his daughter to follow in his footsteps. Amid these challenges, Mr. Kim navigates the needs of his customers and a strong-willed family.  No matter what, humor finds its way onto every aisle of Kim’s Convenience.

​Photography: Casey Gardner Ford
​"The characters are so compelling and multifaceted that by the time the last scene rolls around, you’re longing to see where the rest of the story goes... There [is] plenty to enjoy about this Rebecca Wear-directed production, which has been lovingly rendered with attention to detail" - Arts ATL

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​Tea by Velina Hasu-Houston
Inner City Arts / HERO Theatre 

​Scenic/Props Designer: Carlo Maghirang
Lighting Designer: Azra King-Abadi
Costume Designer: Maggie Dick
Sound Designer: Dean Harada
Stage Manager: Ashley Weaver
Associate Costume Designer: Marvin Hidalgo
Assistant Director: Audrey Forman
Photography: Jenny Graham
A powerful tale of women overcoming prejudice and hardship after leaving Japan post World War II for the "land of the free." 

​Company A Cast: Elaine Ackles, Olivia Cordell, Hiroko Imai, Tomoko Karina, Hua Lee

Company B Cast: Yukari Black, Alix Yumi Cho, Ariel Kayoko Labasan, Sayaka Miyatani, Bolor Saruul 

"Musical and colourful and mythical and sad... I highly recommend this production… The story evolves much like a dance"

The Los Angeles Times feature on HERO's production and TEA's continued relevance. 

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Hometown Boy* by Keiko Green
Actor's Express 
*World Premiere, Suzi Recommended

Scenic Designers: Isabel and Moriah Curley-Clay
Lighting Designer: Cody Evins
Costume Designer: Jordan Jaked-Carrier
Sound Designer: Jeremiah Davison
Props Designer: Ashley Foreman
Stage Violence/Intimacy Director: Kristin Storla
Stage Manager: John Scott Ross
Assistant Director: Tyshawn Gooden
Assistant Sound Designer: Kate Hoang
Assistant Stage Manager: Sherita Blake
Photography: Casey Gardner Ford

James hasn’t been back to his rural Georgia hometown in over a decade, but reluctantly returns to check in on his father, whose behavior has become worryingly erratic. And since the South has a way of holding onto secrets, he soon stumbles into a life he thought he had left behind as a child. That stench in the air isn’t just his father’s decaying house, but the rotten core of long-buried secrets teeming just under the surface and ready to explode.

Cast: Ryan Vo, Michelle Pokopac, Glenn Kubota, Chris Kayser, Allison Dayne, Daniel Parvis

"An exhilarating voyage... it's impossible to look away." - Broadway World Atlanta

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Mongrel* by Adam Tran
Know Theatre of Cincinnati
*World Premiere

Scenic & Lighting Designer: Andrew Hungerford
Resident Costume Designer: Noelle Wedig–Johnston
Costume Designer: Alix Frisch
Sound Designer: Douglas Borntrager
Props Designer & Scenic Charge: Kayla Williams
Composer: Christopher Tin & Alex Williamson
Stage Violence: Jonn Baca
Vocal Coach: D’Arcy Smith
Dialect Consultant: Chaslee Schweitzer
Stage Manager: Emi Suarez
Technical Director: Henry Bateman
Photography: Daniel Winters


In the 12th and 13th centuries, the Mongols swept across the world, led by a charismatic and powerful leader, crushing all resistance in their path, folding the conquered peoples into their empire.

Now, you the audience, with your town under siege, have the opportunity to plead your case before the Khan himself.  But first you’ll need some advice from the Khan’s most trusted adviser.
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Cast: Adam Tran

Location: Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park and Museum

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Victory Fund(raiser)

Producers: Julie Ouellette and Jer Lelliott
Hosts: Jer Lelliott and Donna Simone Johnson​
Director of Photography: Nardeep Khurmi
Art Direction: Carlo Maghirang

Performers: Vico Ortiz, Sydney Rogers (Miss Barbie-Q), and Roger Q. Mason

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​Streaming fundraiser for Black, Brown, and Native American trans, non-binary, and Two Spirit politicians. 

Performers adapted original content ranging from monologues to strip teases to cabaret pieces, including an interview with CO Representative Brianna Titone. This performance raised over $10K.

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The Chinese Lady by Lloyd Suh 
Artists at Play/Greenway Court 
*Ovation Award Recommended, West Coast Premiere


Set and Property Design by Austin Kottkamp
Costume Design by Hyun Soon Kim
Lighting Design by Wesley Charles Chew
Sound Design by Jesse Mandapat
PSM by Brandon Cheng
Photos by Mike Palma

Cast:  Amy She and Trieu Tran, with Hao Feng and Stephanie Wong
"Rebecca Wear’s unhurried direction... is exactly the right one for this uncommon material" - Cultural Weekly
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Inspired by the true story of America’s first female Chinese immigrant, THE CHINESE LADY is a dark, poetic, yet whimsical portrait of America through the eyes of a young Chinese woman. Afong Moy is fourteen years old when she’s brought to the United States from Canton in 1834. Allegedly the first Chinese woman to set foot on U.S. soil, she has been bought and put on display for the American public as “The Chinese Lady.” For the next half a century, she performs for curious museumgoers, showing them how she eats, what she wears, and the highlight of the event: how she walks with bound feet. As the decades wear on, her celebrated sideshow comes to define and challenge her very sense of identity.

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Samsara by Lauren Yee
Couerage Theater Company

Scenic Design by Amanda Knehans
Lighting Design by Matt Johns
Costume Design by Vicki Conrad
Sound Design by Dean Harada
Stage Managed by Courtney Rhodes and Edward Khris Fernandez
Dramaturgy by Jhani Randhawa
​Assistant Directed by Josephine Osegueda
Photos by John Klopping

Katie and Craig are having a baby… with a surrogate… who lives in India. A whimsical take on modern day colonialism.

Cast: Aarón Alonso, Joe Calarco, Nardeep Khurmi, Katie Pelensky, and Pooja Shah 

"Capably executed by an on-point cast" - Stage Raw


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Gang Sines* by Malique Guinn 
UC Santa Barbara
*World Premiere, Kennedy Center's Hip Hop Theatre Creator Award

Choreography by Kelli Forman
Set and Property Design by Luis Cornejo

Costume Design by Keren Rosenthal 
Lighting Design by Dylan Wills
Sound Design by Rebecca Wear and Paul Barnes
Stage Managed by Josephine Osegueda
Photos by David Bazemore

Cast: Andrew Truong, Austin Jiang, Byron Torres, John Loren, Michelle Hester, Miicki Diaz, Navnoor Singh, Truly Polite, Yihuan (Victor) Guo 
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​Carle and his best friend Lincoln live in a world where only math is the key to the great things that await. He comes across the Moscow Enigma, the oldest known math problem in history, and sees it as his way to elevate his life. However, when his old bully transfers to his school, he becomes tasked with confronting old demons and fights against himself to not spiral out of control. This mathematic hip hop tale addresses accountability and fear while also creating a call for action to the tech world and lack of people of color within that space.




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​Obedient Steel* by Chloe Brown
Produced by Tugboat Collective 
*World Premiere, Eugene O'Neill Theatre Finalist

Set & Costume Design by Joseph Wolfslau
Lighting Design by Isabella F. Byrd
Sound Design by Eben Hoffer
Props Design by Noah Mease
Stage Management by Emily Rosenkrantz
Dramaturgy by Nick Trotta
​Photos by Suzi Sadler

​Cast: Nathaniel Basch-Gould, E. James Ford, Craig Mungavin, Anastasia Olowin, Max Reinhardsen, Kate Thulin

"Special note and attention should be paid to this talented core of actors... Director Rebecca Wear uses the space effectively and brings out both the comedic and tragic elements of this fine script" - New York Theatre Review
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​The brightest minds in the world are having a party and working on a top-secret weapon. But then, something goes heart-stoppingly wrong. This is a play about Brilliance, about Progress, about the guinea pig you really didn’t mean to hurt that is now lying dead on the table. This is a play about You.

"Both highly entertaining and highly disconcerting... The brazenly funny script, performed skillfully by the cast, further implicates the audience in this dangerous project. Not only are we in the top-secret lab, but now we are laughing cavalierly along." - Stage Buddy

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If the Saints Arrive in Germany* by Eric Marlin
Produced by The Healthy Oysters Collective
*World Premiere 

Set & Props Design by Melissa Bondar
Costume Design by Genevieve V. Beller
Lighting Design by Leo Malkin and Emily 
Sound Design by Rich Johnson
Composition & Music Direction by Nick Myers 
Choreography by Sarah Lusche
Dramaturgy by Chelsea Bernard
Production Stage Management by Sarah Haber
Assistant Stage Management by Lindsay Harris 
Photos by Eliot Olsen

​​Cast: Heather Cadarettte, Melissa Harlow, Molly O’Keefe, Sarah Robotham, Sarah Lusche, Josephine Wheelwright


​Sixteen-century Germany. Europe is in the midst of the Protestant Reformation. The nuns of the Convent of St. Cecilia are preparing for the performance of a choral mass to honor the Feast of Corpus Christi. At the same moment, a group of Lutheran iconoclasts have arrived in town to smash the convent to pieces. And yet the woman refuse to flee. The resulting catastrophe provokes an intimate and comic investigation of personal faith.

Location: Metro Baptist Church sanctuary, Midtown NY


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