Jason Tseng

Jason Tseng is a queer, non-binary Chinese-American playwright based in New York City, originally hailing from the suburbs of Washington, D.C. Their plays have been presented and developed by Flux Theatre Ensemble, Judson Arts, Mission to dit(Mars), Theatre COTE, Inkubator Arts and Second Generation. They are a Creative Partner of Flux Theatre Ensemble, a member of The Civilians’s 2019/2020 R&D Group, and a member of Mission to dit(Mars)’s Propulsion Lab, a group of Queens-based playwrights. Jason’s full-length plays include Rizing (World Premier, Flux Theatre Ensemble), Like Father, Same Same, Ghost Money, Fear and Wonder, and The Other Side. Find more at www.jasontseng.co

Jason Tseng is a queer, non-binary Chinese-American playwright based in New York City, originally hailing from the suburbs of Washington, D.C. Their plays have been presented and developed by Flux Theatre Ensemble, Judson Arts, Mission to dit(Mars), Theatre COTE, Inkubator Arts and Second Generation. They are a Creative Partner of Flux Theatre Ensemble, a member of The Civilians’s 2019/2020 R&D Group, and a member of Mission to dit(Mars)’s Propulsion Lab, a group of Queens-based playwrights. Jason’s full-length plays include Rizing (World Premier, Flux Theatre Ensemble), Like Father, Same Same, Ghost Money, Fear and Wonder, and The Other Side. Find more at www.jasontseng.co

Scripts

The Other Side

by Jason Tseng

Synopsis

FULL LENGTH: Esther arranges to confront David, the man who raped her over a decade ago. She soon finds that the man from whom she seeks justice is not what she expects. This play interrogates the complex issues of sexual violence, rape culture, and restorative justice.

FULL LENGTH: Esther arranges to confront David, the man who raped her over a decade ago. She soon finds that the man from whom she seeks justice is not what she expects. This play interrogates the complex issues of sexual violence, rape culture, and restorative justice.

Fear and Wonder

by Jason Tseng

Synopsis

FULL LENGTH: Jabez and Ryan, two boys of color, meet at a predominantly white Christian summer camp in the sweltering summer of 2003. Their friendship quickly grows into a budding romance that they try to keep alive after returning home. Their feelings for each other are complicated by their parents, their faith, and the hazards of landline phones. The play explores queerness, evangelical Christianity, the...

FULL LENGTH: Jabez and Ryan, two boys of color, meet at a predominantly white Christian summer camp in the sweltering summer of 2003. Their friendship quickly grows into a budding romance that they try to keep alive after returning home. Their feelings for each other are complicated by their parents, their faith, and the hazards of landline phones. The play explores queerness, evangelical Christianity, the experience of people of color in the Church, teenage angst, and otherness.

Ghost Money

by Jason Tseng

Synopsis

FULL LENGTH: The Tsengs, a Chinese-American family, wrestle with their family narrative as their matriarch teeters on the brink of death. Diving into her life in rural China during the seismic events surrounding the Chinese Civil War between Nationalist and Communist forces, her children struggle to reconcile the truth from memory.

FULL LENGTH: The Tsengs, a Chinese-American family, wrestle with their family narrative as their matriarch teeters on the brink of death. Diving into her life in rural China during the seismic events surrounding the Chinese Civil War between Nationalist and Communist forces, her children struggle to reconcile the truth from memory.

Like Father

by Jason Tseng

Synopsis

FULL LENGTH: A queer contemporary adaptation of Oedipus Rex:

Joe asks his old friend, Tyrese--a former drag queen who is slowly losing his vision--to help run the Provincetown Inn that Joe and his late husband purchased before his death. The calm of the cape is disrupted when Eddie arrives, ostensibly looking for work, but bearing a secret past that threatens to disrupt Joe's carefully manicured present.

FULL LENGTH: A queer contemporary adaptation of Oedipus Rex:

Joe asks his old friend, Tyrese--a former drag queen who is slowly losing his vision--to help run the Provincetown Inn that Joe and his late husband purchased before his death. The calm of the cape is disrupted when Eddie arrives, ostensibly looking for work, but bearing a secret past that threatens to disrupt Joe's carefully manicured present.

Same Same

by Jason Tseng

Synopsis

FULL LENGTH: Same Same is a queer Asian farce: Kelvin and Victor's lives are turned upside down when Victor's mother, June, makes an unannounced visit. Victor isn't out yet, so they rent an apartment on AirBnB from Tristan in order to stage it as Victor's apartment. Familial tensions flare as flames, new and old, threaten Kelvin and Victor's relationship. Meanwhile, June grapples with her own secrets that refuse...

FULL LENGTH: Same Same is a queer Asian farce: Kelvin and Victor's lives are turned upside down when Victor's mother, June, makes an unannounced visit. Victor isn't out yet, so they rent an apartment on AirBnB from Tristan in order to stage it as Victor's apartment. Familial tensions flare as flames, new and old, threaten Kelvin and Victor's relationship. Meanwhile, June grapples with her own secrets that refuse to stay buried.

Rizing

by Jason Tseng

Synopsis

FULL LENGTH: Rizing is set many years after the zombie apocalypse in Shelter, the last living city on Earth. Infected family members, friends, and lovers have been rehabilitated thanks to a daily regimen of drugs and therapy, but the uninfected that have brought them back do not trust them. Now the drugs are starting to wear off, and Shelter’s two-tiered society is poised on the verge of all-out war. Characters...

FULL LENGTH: Rizing is set many years after the zombie apocalypse in Shelter, the last living city on Earth. Infected family members, friends, and lovers have been rehabilitated thanks to a daily regimen of drugs and therapy, but the uninfected that have brought them back do not trust them. Now the drugs are starting to wear off, and Shelter’s two-tiered society is poised on the verge of all-out war. Characters on both sides must choose between rebuilding the world as it was and creating a new one by force.

All roles are written open gender and can be played by actors of any gender.