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Tom JacobsonDescription
Based on historical incident, the play chronicles the first race riot in Los Angeles history: the 1871 lynching of 18 Chinese men by a mob of 500 "people from all nations... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 14 total (4 female, 10 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Ruth WolffDescription
As the 19th century moves into the 20th century, the Dowager Empress Tzu-Hsi struggles to hold together the proud ancient Chinese empire, which is being assaulted by foreign nations and the technological advances of the age... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male, optional extras: court attendants)
Full Length Drama (about 130 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
A R GurneyDescription
Set in the 1950s, FAR EAST tells of a young naval officer looking for fun in Japan before Voice of America calls him home.
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Phil ReevesDescription
Two men are bivouacked on a snowy peak ready to begin their final ascent of Everest.
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (3 male, multiethnic cast)
Full Length Drama (about 75 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Qui NguyenDescription
It's been 10 years since Agent G has last been in Vietnam where his family and friends were all viciously slain... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Dennis J ReardonDescription
Set in 1963, LAST DAYS OF THE HIGH FLIER is the story of a young man waiting for his life to begin, the mysterious ex-pilot who enters his life, and the intricate dance of friendship, betrayal, and forgiveness that takes place between the two men... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (4 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 130 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Rogelio MartinezDescription
Based on the true events surrounding the groundbreaking table tennis tournament that marked a decisive new chapter in US–China relations, PING PONG is the story of the extraordinary young man who played the game that changed the world and the political actors who were playing him... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male, doubling, bit parts)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Lonnie Carter, with Loy Arcenas, based on the short story "The Romance of Magno Rubio" by Carlos Bulosan, additional dialogue in Filipino by Ralph B PeñaDescription
Set in the central valleys of California in the 1930s, the play focuses on Magno Rubio, an illiterate Filipino farm worker and his pen-pal courtship with Clarabelle, a white woman from Arkansas who advertises in the back pages of a "lonely hearts" magazine... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 80 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Eduardo Iván LópezDescription
A Okinawan girl teaches an Hispanic American solider a bittersweet lesson about love.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Full Length Drama (about 85 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Janet NeiprisDescription
Three American professors come to teach in China the summer before Tiananmen Square. The Cultural Revolution is over, but when Remy, the American professor, attempts to bond with her Chinese translator, Sun, the friendship proves to be impossible for political reasons... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (5 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 130 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Qui NguyenDescription
After avenging the death of her lover, a young samurai girl named Dewdrop, along with her faithful sidekick Cert, must now battle through vampire-infested Brooklyn to make it back home.
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male, Multiethnic Cast)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Mac WellmanDescription
TWO SEPTEMBER is set in post-WWII Vietnam, when Ho Chi Minh had visions of a free country and a newly formed House UnAmerican Affairs Committee blacklisted a young, female American writer who believed in truth, justice, and a humane social order.
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (4 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 75 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Daniel TherriaultDescription
In a satire of hard-boiled film noir, a priest-operative force-baptizes sinners at gunpoint to save their souls... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (1 female, 5 male, flexible casting up to 8 actors)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 120 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes