Anna Ouyang Moench

Anna Ouyang Moench

Anna Ouyang Moench is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. Her plays include Your Local Theater Presents: A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, Again, Man of God, Birds of North America, Mothers, and Sin Eaters. Anna’s work has been produced at Williamstown Theatre Festival, the Geffen Playhouse, East West Players, the Playwrights Realm, NAATCO at the Public Theater, Mosaic Theater Company, InterAct,...
Anna Ouyang Moench is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. Her plays include Your Local Theater Presents: A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, Again, Man of God, Birds of North America, Mothers, and Sin Eaters. Anna’s work has been produced at Williamstown Theatre Festival, the Geffen Playhouse, East West Players, the Playwrights Realm, NAATCO at the Public Theater, Mosaic Theater Company, InterAct, Theater Mu, and many others. She is a former Jerome Fellow at the Playwrights’ Center, Van Lier fellow at the Lark, and Page One fellow at the Playwrights Realm. Her awards include two 2023 WGA Awards for her work on Severance (Apple TV+), the 2020 Steinberg Playwright Award, the Gerbode Special Award in the Arts, the Paul Stephen Lim Playwriting Award from the Kennedy Center, and the NYFA Award in Playwriting/Screenwriting. Anna received her MFA in Playwriting from UCSD and now lives in Los Angeles with her family.

Plays

  • Your Local Theater Presents: A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, Again by Anna Ouyang Moench
    Recommendations: 2
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    6
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, holiday
    Eddie is fresh out of Juilliard, and he’s ready to make his mark on the American Theater. But first, a quick stint at your local theater for a production of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” to keep his health insurance. As the years pass, Eddie finds himself back at your local theater, over and over and over again. Much remains the same: the play, the stage manager, the green room—though Eddie's in...
    Eddie is fresh out of Juilliard, and he’s ready to make his mark on the American Theater. But first, a quick stint at your local theater for a production of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” to keep his health insurance. As the years pass, Eddie finds himself back at your local theater, over and over and over again. Much remains the same: the play, the stage manager, the green room—though Eddie's in different costumes as he ages through the play's male roles over the course of his career. A love letter to actors, artists, and dreamers of all professions who make sacrifices large and small in service of their work…and ultimately wonder whether it was worth it.
  • Man of God by Anna Ouyang Moench
    Recommendations: 17
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    5
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 5 more
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    Keyword: male gaze, teenagers + 6 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, fantasy, horror, movement/physical, mystery/thriller, political
    Keyword: male gaze, teenagers, korean american, Asian American, coming of age, sexual abuse, feminism, metoo
    A Korean Christian girls’ youth group discovers that their revered pastor has hidden a camera in their hotel bathroom on their mission trip to Bangkok. MAN OF GOD is a funny feminist thriller about that moment when girls realize the male gaze has been watching all along—and decide they’re definitely gonna do something about it.
  • Birds of North America by Anna Ouyang Moench
    Recommendations: 7
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: Fathers and Daughters, climate change + 2 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, political
    Keyword: Fathers and Daughters, climate change, bird-watching, American politics
    John and his daughter Caitlyn are birders. As they scan the skies over their backyard in suburban Maryland looking for elusive birds, years go by. Relationships begin and end. Children grow up and parents age. The climate and the world change in small and vast ways. BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA takes a close look at the relationship of a father and daughter over the course of a decade as they struggle to understand...
    John and his daughter Caitlyn are birders. As they scan the skies over their backyard in suburban Maryland looking for elusive birds, years go by. Relationships begin and end. Children grow up and parents age. The climate and the world change in small and vast ways. BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA takes a close look at the relationship of a father and daughter over the course of a decade as they struggle to understand the parts of one another that defy understanding.
  • Mothers by Anna Ouyang Moench
    Recommendations: 13
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: mother, nanny + 2 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, political
    Keyword: mother, nanny, war, Dystopia
    Three moms, a stay-at-home dad, and a nanny watch their kids play at Mommy-Baby Meetup. One mom is the queen bee and one is here to shake things up. The dad just wants to fit in, and the nanny doesn’t say a word. When catastrophe comes, the five of them have to figure out how to survive a war and each other. MOTHERS examines the primal heartache of raising children in a disintegrating world.
  • Sin Eaters by Anna Ouyang Moench
    Recommendations: 7
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    2
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 3 more
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    Keyword: Dangers of the internet, technology + 5 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, horror, mystery/thriller, tragedy
    Keyword: Dangers of the internet, technology, Relationships, pornography, dead-end jobs, internet, social media
    Mary is a content moderator, one of the unseen people who scrub our social media feeds of violent, sexual, and otherwise disturbing imagery. As she goes deeper and deeper into the dark rabbit hole of unfiltered human depravity that is the internet, she finds a graphic video that makes her question her relationship, her sanity, and her own capacity for violence. By plunging us into a job where technology meets...
    Mary is a content moderator, one of the unseen people who scrub our social media feeds of violent, sexual, and otherwise disturbing imagery. As she goes deeper and deeper into the dark rabbit hole of unfiltered human depravity that is the internet, she finds a graphic video that makes her question her relationship, her sanity, and her own capacity for violence. By plunging us into a job where technology meets drudgery, SIN EATERS examines how our daily toil transforms us from the outside in.