Siena Marilyn Chongchua-Morris

they/them/theirs
A bi-racial, bi-coastal, queer playwright, actor, and poet from San Diego, CA. They graduated from Cal State Fullerton’s BFA Acting program cum laude, and became a Russ Tutterow Fellow with Chicago Dramatists.

Their play, Man and Moon, was recently produced at Moxie Theatre and first premiered as part of National New Play Network’s Rolling World Premiere at Good Company Theatre, 16th Street Theater NFP, and Oregon Contemporary Theatre. Man and Moon is being studied by SDSU's MFA Theatre program as part of their year-long curriculum of new works about gender identity and how to teach that in schools.

The Empty Space premiered at the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, and launched the school’s New Works Physical Theatre Initiative, followed by a production by Annie...

they/them/theirs
A bi-racial, bi-coastal, queer playwright, actor, and poet from San Diego, CA. They graduated from Cal State Fullerton’s BFA Acting program cum laude, and became a Russ Tutterow Fellow with Chicago Dramatists.

Their play, Man and Moon, was recently produced at Moxie Theatre and first premiered as part of National New Play Network’s Rolling World Premiere at Good Company Theatre, 16th Street Theater NFP, and Oregon Contemporary Theatre. Man and Moon is being studied by SDSU's MFA Theatre program as part of their year-long curriculum of new works about gender identity and how to teach that in schools.

The Empty Space premiered at the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, and launched the school’s New Works Physical Theatre Initiative, followed by a production by Annie Russell Theatre at Rollins College. Inosculation was performed at the Hollywood Fringe Festival with Sacred Fools Theater.

They have received praise for their work from Publications including Chicago Tribune, Chicago Reader, San Diego Union-Tribune, Third Coast Review, and more. They were an Uptown Poets Slam Semi-finalist and received both the Virginia Cummings Award and Richard Willis Award for creative achievement.

Much of their work is characterized by its symbolic nature, delving into queer dynamics and experiences through the use of poetic language and exploration of spacetime.

Scripts

Man and Moon

by Siena Marilyn Chongchua-Morris

Synopsis

Man and Moon is a story about unlikely friends–– Aaron, a transitioning man, meets Luna, a twelve-year-old girl with a deep passion for outer space, in the waiting room of a hospital’s Oncology Unit. Together they learn how to wait, each navigating their own changing bodies and lives as they fit within the context of space and time.

Man and Moon is a story about unlikely friends–– Aaron, a transitioning man, meets Luna, a twelve-year-old girl with a deep passion for outer space, in the waiting room of a hospital’s Oncology Unit. Together they learn how to wait, each navigating their own changing bodies and lives as they fit within the context of space and time.

Thee Eververse or, Say 'NO' to One Paseo

by Siena Marilyn Chongchua-Morris

Synopsis

Somewhere between that love letter to your best friend and the ode to your own self-discovery, is a story about how we change—regardless of wanting to—and how we inevitably revert (and sometimes want to). Can unconditional love exist between people who love each other differently?

Somewhere between that love letter to your best friend and the ode to your own self-discovery, is a story about how we change—regardless of wanting to—and how we inevitably revert (and sometimes want to). Can unconditional love exist between people who love each other differently?

The Empty Space

by Siena Marilyn Chongchua-Morris

Synopsis

A play told from the mind in one act. The internal journey of the mind through a lifetime. The internal evolution of the human experience as it encounters personified concepts such as Time, the Moon, Insanity, and Tomorrow.

A play told from the mind in one act. The internal journey of the mind through a lifetime. The internal evolution of the human experience as it encounters personified concepts such as Time, the Moon, Insanity, and Tomorrow.

Inosculation

by Siena Marilyn Chongchua-Morris

Synopsis

A dark comedy exploring a complicated, cyclical relationship. This coming-of-age story follows Lu and Lynn, two who find themselves alone in a bar with seemingly only a bottle of scotch in common. As they search to understand their relationship to time and space they realize their connection to each other is more than coincidence. Moving and symbolic, “Inosculation” seeks to understand the nature of mistakes and...

A dark comedy exploring a complicated, cyclical relationship. This coming-of-age story follows Lu and Lynn, two who find themselves alone in a bar with seemingly only a bottle of scotch in common. As they search to understand their relationship to time and space they realize their connection to each other is more than coincidence. Moving and symbolic, “Inosculation” seeks to understand the nature of mistakes and the choices that we make.

On God

by Siena Marilyn Chongchua-Morris

Synopsis

With enough angles of perspective
eventually comes
the decision...
but no one has
Answers.
Only choices they make
and choices they don't.

With enough angles of perspective
eventually comes
the decision...
but no one has
Answers.
Only choices they make
and choices they don't.