Alex Lin

Alex Lin

chinese-american playwright from bergen county, nj
ex-stem kid

in an ideal world, i would be quentin tarantino

nyu tisch bfa, 19/20 actors theatre of louisville ptc
writer's groups: the coop's CLUSTERF**K, page break @ soho playhouse, mu tang clan w/ theater mu
2022 elizabeth george commission @ SCR
2023 sloan commission @ MTC
NHP 2022...
chinese-american playwright from bergen county, nj
ex-stem kid

in an ideal world, i would be quentin tarantino

nyu tisch bfa, 19/20 actors theatre of louisville ptc
writer's groups: the coop's CLUSTERF**K, page break @ soho playhouse, mu tang clan w/ theater mu
2022 elizabeth george commission @ SCR
2023 sloan commission @ MTC
NHP 2022 conference finalist / 2022 O'Neill finalist / 2023 Weissberger New Play Award nominee / 2022-2023 Playwrights Realm fellow

Plays

  • CHINESE REPUBLICANS by Alex Lin
    Recommendations: 5
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy
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    Keyword: Chinese American, wall street + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy
    Keyword: Chinese American, wall street, Chinese women, Finance
    When high-flying finance it girl Katie Liu loses out on the promotion of a lifetime to a nepo-baby coworker, she embarks on a treacherous endeavor to make a worker's union out of her Republican work aunties. Welcome to the world of CHINESE REPUBLICANS, where the best bags are Birkins, the best shoes are Prada, and the best president is Reagan.
  • LASTHUNTER by Alex Lin
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    7
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: NASA, science fiction + 5 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, dark comedy, science fiction
    Keyword: NASA, science fiction, action adventure, time travel, anti-fascist, inglourious basterds fanfic, revenge
    When NASA interns Reggie Nielson and Elisa Yang discover that the godfather of modern American rocketry was a former Nazi, the unlikely pair decide to take matters into their own hands in the only way they know how: time travel back to 1969 and kill the motherfucker. A multiverse revenge tale, LASTHUNTER investigates the embedded history of fascism in the United States, the fragility of American exceptionalism...
    When NASA interns Reggie Nielson and Elisa Yang discover that the godfather of modern American rocketry was a former Nazi, the unlikely pair decide to take matters into their own hands in the only way they know how: time travel back to 1969 and kill the motherfucker. A multiverse revenge tale, LASTHUNTER investigates the embedded history of fascism in the United States, the fragility of American exceptionalism, and the malleability of morality when living within the bounds of a capitalist system.
  • BAD CHINESE DAUGHTER by Alex Lin
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    9
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: Chinese American, Asian American + 8 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, period
    Keyword: Chinese American, Asian American, Asian American playwright, Asian American family, all Asian cast, 3 generations, immigration, A Family Comedy/drama, USA immigration policy, bad girls
    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...
    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?
  • beth by Alex Lin
    Recommendations: 10
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    Cast: 
    8
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    Genre: adaptation, dark comedy + 1 more
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    Keyword: Macbeth, based on Shakespeare + 6 more
    Genre: adaptation, dark comedy, horror
    Keyword: Macbeth, based on Shakespeare, adaptation, Asian American, Adolescence, colleges and high schools, science, stem
    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.
  • 39 Revolutions by Alex Lin
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: dark comedy, political + 1 more
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    Keyword: dark comedy, radical left + 7 more
    Genre: dark comedy, political, satire
    Keyword: dark comedy, radical left, soviet russia, Moscow, Rasputin, democracy, Politics, millennials, gen z
    four radical left college students travel to moscow, russia for spring break to resurrect vladimir lenin and rig the 2016 election.
  • SPARK: The Peer Leadership Program That Will Get Your Kid Into Harvard/Yale/Princeton/Columbia, Cure Cancer, Stop California Forest Fires, End The Race War, and Enact World Peace. (or) PRIYANKA THARAKAN MUST DIE by Alex Lin
    Recommendations: 4
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    Cast: 
    13
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    Genre: adaptation, dark comedy
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    Keyword: Julius Caesar, adaptation + 4 more
    Genre: adaptation, dark comedy
    Keyword: Julius Caesar, adaptation, Shakespeare adaptation, high school, peer leadership programs, high school shakespeare
    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.
  • FINAL CONTACT by Alex Lin
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    1
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    Genre: dark comedy, experimental + 2 more
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    Keyword: space, stem + 6 more
    Genre: dark comedy, experimental, science fiction, zoom
    Keyword: space, stem, women in STEM, female astronaut, astronaut, NASA, Asian American, Asian American playwright
    astronaut penny leung is tasked with the expedition of a lifetime: decommission the iss after 30 years of service. that would all be hunky-dory, if it weren't for the fact that she hasn't heard from mission control in over three weeks. she's starting to wonder why she wanted this job in the first place. the great thing about space is that no one can hear you have an all-consuming nihilistic crisis full of existential dread.
  • THE JOY LUCK CLUB IS A F*CKING FARCE AND HERE'S WHY by Alex Lin
    Recommendations: 6
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy, farce + 1 more
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    Keyword: the joy luck club, Asian American + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, farce, satire
    Keyword: the joy luck club, Asian American, trauma porn, Farce, american satire
    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.
  • HAUS VVIVES by Alex Lin
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: adaptation, comedy + 4 more
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    Keyword: reality tv, New Jersey + 2 more
    Genre: adaptation, comedy, farce, melodrama, parody/spoof, satire
    Keyword: reality tv, New Jersey, celebrity, All female cast by female playwrights
    an adaptation of the greatest conflict of all time.
  • HELEN MIRREN TAKES A DAY OFF by Alex Lin
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    1
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    Genre: comedy, farce + 1 more
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    Keyword: Helen Mirren
    Genre: comedy, farce, parody/spoof
    Keyword: Helen Mirren
    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
  • mixed kings only by Alex Lin
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    1
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    Genre: comedy, farce
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    Keyword: mixed race, Asian American + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, farce
    Keyword: mixed race, Asian American, comedy monologue, monologues for women
    daria, a mixed girl, tries to buy a pair of jeans. the only catch? she has dumptruck thighs without a dumptruck ass. wasian tragedy ensues.