Elizabeth Wong

Companion monologues written originally for the USCSHOAH FOUNDATION in a project about genocide. NAMING DAY is about Pearl, a Chinese woman, 20s, who is eight-months pregnant, trying to disguise herself as a man. Set 1938 at a college in Nanjing. The other monologue CONFESSION, is about Pika, a psychic college student named after the cartoon character Pikachu, who receives a visitation from her grandfather while she's trying to eat her quinoa salad at her campus cafeteria. Both monologues were commissioned by the Shoah Foundation, which was created by Steven Spielberg to video Holocaust survivors. The archive now collected video from survivors of genocide in the Congo, Guatemala, Armenia, China. In this commission, playwrights were asked to select a video from their archive, and write a short play inspired by the eyewitness testimony of survivors. I chose to write about the rape of Nanjing, when Japanese Imperial forces enter the city and brutally massacred between 300,000 to 500,000 Chinese citizens and raping nearly all women, children, and the elderly, and especially pregnant women.

CODE OF CONDUCT is a coming-of-age story about a heavy metal musician wannabe who enlists in the Army. On his first deployment, Terry Holdbrooks Jr. finds himself in Cuba, stationed at Guantanamo Bay Prison guarding the “worst of the worst” while trying hard to be “all that he can be.” With a gung-ho attitude and strong enthusiasm for the Army Code of Honor, Terry starts on a remarkable, and surprising, journey towards self-discovery. This play, commissioned by First Flight Entertainment, is inspired by the memoir TRAITOR? by Terry Holdbrooks Jr. A full-length drama, with no intermission. 90 minutes. Based on real events and real people.

A "Right to Dream" TYA touring show about undocumented students, activism, and the Dream Act. (30 min) Tam Tran, a graduating student at UCLA, is a filmmaker, Radiohead fan, and she's shy. She and her vivacious best friend, Cinthya, have become student activists, thanks to their undocumented status and constant threat of deportation. When Tam is asked to testify on behalf of the DREAM Act before Congress in Washington DC, she's petrified because she is usually behind the camera, not in front of it. And she's worried the national exposure might endanger her family. But with the help of her friends, her teachers, and her mother- she gathers the courage to speak her truth to the Senate about the right to dream. Inspired by a true story of courage. Two Actors play multiple roles, expandable to four.

A full-length cocktail of comedic monologues for women about the joys and pitfalls of dating in the 21st Century. There's CEO Hannah at the doctors' about to inseminate; a teen sk8rgurl finding first love at the skatepark; a bodacious BBW who finds big love at a car wash; a Southern Beauty Queen who would rather watch dating shows on a Friday nite; a Las Vegas showgirl dealing with a cheating boyfriend. Wicked. Naughty. Provocative. Wise. Raunchy. And fun. Not for the faint-hearted! (90 min) Great ensemble show. For three virtuoso actresses, expandable to 11 women. All sizes and shapes and colors. Multicultural casting preferred.