Ken Narasaki

Ken Narasaki is an actor/playwright whose produced works include the recent adaptation of NO-NO BOY, as well as award-winning plays INNOCENT WHEN YOU DREAM, THE MIKADO PROJECT (co-written with Doris Baizley), and GHOSTS AND BAGGAGE. His latest play is a black comedy/drama called SPOILED, (5- 6 characters) which had a shattering reading at the Magic Theater, produced by Rainbow Zebra Productions. No-No Boy was a finalist for Best Audio Drama, Audies (Audible) 2021 and was produced by LA TheatreWorks, who also produced Innocent When You Dream in 2024. Innocent and The Mikado Project both won Pacific Rim Playwriting Awards from Kumu Kahua and the University of Hawaii. Ghosts and Baggage won Third Place for the C.Y. Lee Playwriting Competition.

Ken Narasaki is an actor/playwright whose produced works include the recent adaptation of NO-NO BOY, as well as award-winning plays INNOCENT WHEN YOU DREAM, THE MIKADO PROJECT (co-written with Doris Baizley), and GHOSTS AND BAGGAGE. His latest play is a black comedy/drama called SPOILED, (5- 6 characters) which had a shattering reading at the Magic Theater, produced by Rainbow Zebra Productions. No-No Boy was a finalist for Best Audio Drama, Audies (Audible) 2021 and was produced by LA TheatreWorks, who also produced Innocent When You Dream in 2024. Innocent and The Mikado Project both won Pacific Rim Playwriting Awards from Kumu Kahua and the University of Hawaii. Ghosts and Baggage won Third Place for the C.Y. Lee Playwriting Competition.

Scripts

Spoiled

by Ken Narasaki

Cast Size
5—6
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama

An older Asian American man comes to terms with his increasingly demented mother and gains insight into her past while wrestling with his own guilt.

An older Asian American man comes to terms with his increasingly demented mother and gains insight into her past while wrestling with his own guilt.

NO NO BOY

by Ken Narasaki

Cast Size
9—10
Genre
adaptation,
drama,
political

Seattle, 1946: Japanese Americans are returning to the West Coast from concentration camps in the interior, from fighting in Europe in World War II, and, in Ichiro's case, from prison for refusing the draft. Like everyone else, Ichiro would rather forget what's happened over the past few years, but he's come back to find that the war still isn't over.

Seattle, 1946: Japanese Americans are returning to the West Coast from concentration camps in the interior, from fighting in Europe in World War II, and, in Ichiro's case, from prison for refusing the draft. Like everyone else, Ichiro would rather forget what's happened over the past few years, but he's come back to find that the war still isn't over.

Innocent When You Dream

by Ken Narasaki

1
Cast Size
5
Genre
dark comedy,
drama,
period,
tragedy

A Nisei man in his 80s has a devastating stroke and his adult children fight with the hospital as he wishes to be taken off life support. Meanwhile, the semi-comatose Dan remembers a woman from the Japanese internment camps with a tragic past; he fell in love with her and could never understand why she didn't love him back...until now.

A Nisei man in his 80s has a devastating stroke and his adult children fight with the hospital as he wishes to be taken off life support. Meanwhile, the semi-comatose Dan remembers a woman from the Japanese internment camps with a tragic past; he fell in love with her and could never understand why she didn't love him back...until now.

The Mikado Project

by Ken Narasaki

Cast Size
7
Genre
comedy,
farce,
musical,
political,
romantic comedy,
satire

A struggling Asian American theater is under the gun to produce a new play or lose a much-needed grant; the artistic director wants to take a huge chance and reclaim the racially controversial The Mikado by creating a post-modern, Asian American musical take on the play.

A struggling Asian American theater is under the gun to produce a new play or lose a much-needed grant; the artistic director wants to take a huge chance and reclaim the racially controversial The Mikado by creating a post-modern, Asian American musical take on the play.