Roy Sekigahama

Roy Sekigahama's first full-length play, Desert Rock Garden was produced at New Village Arts in 2022, winning grants from the California Civil Liberties Program and the National Endowment for the Arts. The production was nominated for four Craig Noel Awards including Outstanding New Production and winning for Best Director. His second full-length play, The Ghosts from the Pali was read at New Village Arts’ Final Draft New Play Festival in 2020. Several of Roy’s short plays (Not Crazy Rich or Asian; Kabuki Theater in Texas; The Purple Swastika; Bullets and Bagels, My Son’s Red Dress, The Garden of Eden Retirement Home, etc.) were winners in various contests. Roy was a 2024 Dramatists Guild Foundation National Fellowship Finalist. He is a member of the Dramatist Guild and sits on the Board...

Roy Sekigahama's first full-length play, Desert Rock Garden was produced at New Village Arts in 2022, winning grants from the California Civil Liberties Program and the National Endowment for the Arts. The production was nominated for four Craig Noel Awards including Outstanding New Production and winning for Best Director. His second full-length play, The Ghosts from the Pali was read at New Village Arts’ Final Draft New Play Festival in 2020. Several of Roy’s short plays (Not Crazy Rich or Asian; Kabuki Theater in Texas; The Purple Swastika; Bullets and Bagels, My Son’s Red Dress, The Garden of Eden Retirement Home, etc.) were winners in various contests. Roy was a 2024 Dramatists Guild Foundation National Fellowship Finalist. He is a member of the Dramatist Guild and sits on the Board of Directors of Playwrights Project and Roustabouts Theatre. Roy is a graduate of UC Berkeley (AB) and Yale University (MBA).

Scripts

Desert Rock Garden

by Roy Sekigahama

Synopsis

An uplifting story about a friendship which develops between a 12-year orphan girl and an elderly Japanese man who are making a Japanese rock garden in the Topaz Relocation Camp during WWII.

An uplifting story about a friendship which develops between a 12-year orphan girl and an elderly Japanese man who are making a Japanese rock garden in the Topaz Relocation Camp during WWII.