reid tang

reid tang writes plays and things shaped like plays. Their work includes Isabel (NAATCO), DEBT (co-written w/ Adrian Einspanier, developed with Pride Plays, New York Stage and Film & Breaking the Binary Theatre), WORK HARD HAVE FUN MAKE HISTORY (Clubbed Thumb Summerworks), FUTURE WIFE (Relentless Award Honorable Mention, Goethe-Institut Beijing, Theatertreffen Stückemarkt), and Party in a Google Sheet (New Georges). They’ve been under commission with Breaking the Binary Theatre and New York Theatre Workshop, a recipient of the Sundance Institute Interdisciplinary Program Grant, and a MacDowell fellow.

Currently, they’re a resident playwright at New Dramatists and a Target Margin Institute Fellow. In the past, they've been part of Ars Nova's Play Group, the New Georges Jam, Clubbed Thumb...

reid tang writes plays and things shaped like plays. Their work includes Isabel (NAATCO), DEBT (co-written w/ Adrian Einspanier, developed with Pride Plays, New York Stage and Film & Breaking the Binary Theatre), WORK HARD HAVE FUN MAKE HISTORY (Clubbed Thumb Summerworks), FUTURE WIFE (Relentless Award Honorable Mention, Goethe-Institut Beijing, Theatertreffen Stückemarkt), and Party in a Google Sheet (New Georges). They’ve been under commission with Breaking the Binary Theatre and New York Theatre Workshop, a recipient of the Sundance Institute Interdisciplinary Program Grant, and a MacDowell fellow.

Currently, they’re a resident playwright at New Dramatists and a Target Margin Institute Fellow. In the past, they've been part of Ars Nova's Play Group, the New Georges Jam, Clubbed Thumb’s Early Career Writers' Group, and NYTW’s 2050 Fellowship. They grew up in Singapore and presently live in Brooklyn, NY.

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Scripts

BOIDS

by reid tang

Cast Size
7
Genre
dark comedy,
experimental

It's time to go to men's group. In men's group we sit in a circle and talk about our feelings. This is important. Your feelings are important. It's a wonderful place, men's group. You may cry. You may say all your secret feelings about women. You will be taught what it is to be a real man.

Five men go to men's group to be taught how to be a proper man—by a woman. Fortunately, gender isn't real.

It's time to go to men's group. In men's group we sit in a circle and talk about our feelings. This is important. Your feelings are important. It's a wonderful place, men's group. You may cry. You may say all your secret feelings about women. You will be taught what it is to be a real man.

Five men go to men's group to be taught how to be a proper man—by a woman. Fortunately, gender isn't real.

Isabel

by reid tang

3
Cast Size
3
Genre
dark comedy,
horror

It's the staircase in the woods again. You know the one. Mysterious, abandoned, the one everyone says you shouldn't climb. Well—maybe if you did, everything would be different. Maybe you would become something else entirely. Something you've always feared you secretly already were.

It's the staircase in the woods again. You know the one. Mysterious, abandoned, the one everyone says you shouldn't climb. Well—maybe if you did, everything would be different. Maybe you would become something else entirely. Something you've always feared you secretly already were.

FUTURE WIFE

by reid tang

2
Cast Size
6—12
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
experimental,
movement/physical,
political,
tragedy

A romantic tragedy about goats and the economy. On a production line, which is also the entire world, a woman and a goat meet and fall in love, despite the blood. Despite the knives. In the distant past, and the far future, choruses of pirates and goats convene to discuss important questions about their societies: Is this the best economy we could invent? Who invented it? Who must die to keep the economy running...

A romantic tragedy about goats and the economy. On a production line, which is also the entire world, a woman and a goat meet and fall in love, despite the blood. Despite the knives. In the distant past, and the far future, choruses of pirates and goats convene to discuss important questions about their societies: Is this the best economy we could invent? Who invented it? Who must die to keep the economy running, and how can we make those deaths as invisible and exciting as possible?

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WORK HARD HAVE FUN MAKE HISTORY

by reid tang

4
Cast Size
3
Genre
dark comedy,
experimental

A catalog of all the possible phone calls that exist. A play that is not about Amazon, not about Jeff Bezos and certainly not about Elon Musk.

A catalog of all the possible phone calls that exist. A play that is not about Amazon, not about Jeff Bezos and certainly not about Elon Musk.

the fucking tent

by reid tang

2
Cast Size
6—9
Genre
drama,
experimental,
movement/physical

Norihiro wants to leave his body. He's tired of his office job and his wife and secretly fucking his lover Takuma in a children's tent. He's in luck: there's someone willing to take his body over, to become him. So he goes.

Norihiro wants to leave his body. He's tired of his office job and his wife and secretly fucking his lover Takuma in a children's tent. He's in luck: there's someone willing to take his body over, to become him. So he goes.