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    Last Ship to Proxima Centauri

    Greg Lam
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    Play Description

    The Earth has become uninhabitable. The last escape ship from Earth (Seattle, to be exact) arrives to its new home planet centuries after all the others. The pilots are not prepared for what they find there. LAST SHIP TO PROXIMA CENTAURI asks us to examine 21st-century America through the lens of futurist neo-colonialism, 2,000 years after the end of Must See TV.

    Production Info

    Cast: 7 total (3 female, 4 male, flexible casting)
    Full Length Comedy (about 120 minutes)
    Single Set
    Contemporary Costumes
    Categories: The Plays, Not Yet Published Tags: Future, Science Fiction, Sui Generis
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    Author(s)

    • Greg Lam

      Greg Lam is a playwright, screenwriter, and board game designer who lives in the Bay Area. He is the co-founder of the Asian-American Playwright Collective and a member of The Pulp Stage Writer's Room and the Pear Theatre's Playwright Guild. His full-length epic LAST SHIP TO PROXIMA CENTAURI premiered digitally at Kitchen Dog Theater in March 2021 and onstage at Portland Stage Co. in March 2022 after winning the Clauder Competition. His full-length play REPOSSESSED received its world premiere at Theatre Conspiracy in 2018. His serial play series TREACHERY ISLAND will premiere at The Pulp Stage in 2022. In 2019, he was named a fellow in the Dramatic Arts by the Mass Cultural Council and the inaugural Pao Fellow of the Company One PlayLab. Greg was a member of the 2016 Company One PlayLab Unit for the development of Boston area playwrights. His works have been produced by Company One, Fresh Ink Theatre, Pork Filled Productions, The Depot, The Boston Theatre Marathon, Open Theatre Project, Post Meridian Radio Theatre, Other World Theatre Paragon Festival, theatre@first, Navigators Theater, Fantastic.Z, Project Y, The Hive Collective, Culture Park, Silverthorne Theatre, The Pulp Stage, Ixion Theatre Ensemble, Eagle and Beaver Ensemble, 4th Street Theatre, Midwest Dramatists Conference, Last Frontier Theatre Conference, Tiny Theatre, Pear Theatre, Wishing Wind Creations, Revolution Shakespeare, The Best of All Possible Podcast, Baldwin Wallace University, and others. In 2021 he curated a 39 play series called Sci-Fi Summer Shorts by Tiny Theatre. You can see works of his that have been filmed at https://tinyurl.com/greglam. Greg writes, largely, full-length epics which combine grinding moral quandaries with science fiction, short plays that are comic romps, and one-minute plays which are incredibly depressing. Greg is the co-creator of the "Boston Podcast Players" podcast (bostonpodcastplayers.com) Boston's virtual podcast stage for new works by local playwrights.

    Book Information

    Publisher BPPI
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    ISBN 978088145####

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    Translations by Jecenia Isis Figueroa, Kayodè Soyemi, and Livian Yeh

    Theatrical World Premiere Production:
    PORTLAND STAGE COMPANY
    Anita Stewart, Executive & Artistic Director

    Streaming Digital World Premiere:
    KITCHEN DOG THEATER, Dallas, TX
    Christopher Carlos & Tina Parker, Artistic Directors; Tim Johnson, Managing Director

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    Last Ship to Proxima Centauri is produced
    by special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NYC
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