Don't mess with a Chinese grandma. When a high-rise developer threatens to tear down or buy out A-poh's successful Chinatown restaurant, the martyr-complex matriarch gathers her three precious grandchildren from all corners of the country to plan their next mode of attack. There's just one problem: A-Poh's memory is rapidly fading. What follows is a chaotic journey through reality, myth, and magic as A-Poh travels through now and the great beyond as a last-ditch effort to preserve what's left of her family, legacy, and sanity. A caustic and imaginative spin on Lear in response to the gentrification of America's Chinatowns.

assimilation fucking sucks. so does being a teenage girl. add both together, and you're playing life on hard mode.

if there's anything universal about chinese-american women, it's that they're not the type to back down from a fight. welcome to the world of BAD CHINESE DAUGHTER, a sweeping epic based on every time any chinese girl's 婆婆 has yelled at her for her poor life choices. follow three generations of Wang women as they navigate life, loss, and love in america all while trying to salvage the gifts of their past.

with each new daughter deciding the future of the next in their hands, BAD CHINESE DAUGHTER investigates how we are (happily and unhappily) tethered to those who came before us, and how we are (luckily and unluckily) empowered, enraged, and entrapped by tradition. most of all, our story asks:

what does it mean to be good?

overachiever teens fight for their lives (literally) over one thing and one thing only: the intel international science and engineering fair's $75,000 grand prize.

a decidedly 21st century asian-american macbeth adaptation.

priyanka tharakan is bennerson college prep's regina george. kaashvi seemangal has never even been to a birthday party. when leaked peer reviews in their after-school leadership program create a power vacuum in the school's social food chain, only the most cunning and capable will survive as each student vies for a bigger seat at the table.

an unapologetically vicious julius caesar adaptation.

there’s an ancient chinese saying: white people love trauma porn.

welcome to the new joy luck club, where three generations of asian-american women dive into a rageful investigation of how marginalized voices fight to maintain ownership of their own stories.

helen mirren has a day off. helen mirren needs to work on her monologue. helen mirren's brother needs way too much attention. helen mirren gets a call from frenemy judi dench with ex-husband kenneth branagh on the same line. helen mirren's dog is dying.

can she handle it? of course she can. she's helen mirren.

produced as part of the 19/20 solo mio series at actors theatre of louisville