Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin

During a 1999 table tennis tournament, Yining and Anjali become fast friends. Ping Pong Play non-chronologically follows two Asian femmes' lifelong friendship as they play the sport live, try to maintain their connection, and grow through major life and world changes over eight decades, exploring how macro structures affect micro interpersonal relationships.

Tiger Beat follows the Girls Next Door, a pop group rising to fame in 2003 pop music. As the band juggles choreography, awards shows, and crushes on teen heartthrobs, Asian American singer/songwriter Tess navigates her identity within the framework of the entertainment industry. This play with music ​is a coming of age story about pop stardom, questionable 2003 fashion choices, and finding one's identity through art.

TBH high school is v v v hard, especially if you're a witch! Liana, Naomi, Rachel, and Trina form a coven to cope with the pressures of being a teenage girl, like finding the perfect homecoming dress, locating a suitable familiar, and something more sinister -- reporting sexual assault within the education system.

In sleepy West Virginia, a love triangle of National Park rangers train to present living history docent material about John Brown’s ill-fated raid on Harpers Ferry one hundred sixty years after the event. When race and politics enter the equation, history repeats itself in a surprising and violent way.

A reverent nod to Our Town by Thornton Wilder, this play follows a group of young people in the town of Corner’s Grove from high school into adulthood as they deal with leaving home, falling in love, gender identity, and the death of Whitney Houston. It’s a story about growing up and hometowns, friendship and drinking in parking lots.

The Bakunawa is a magical, travel-filled breakup play about love and loss through the lens of a queer interracial couple. When Lester's aunt passes away in the Philippines, his relationship with his boyfriend Andrew deteriorates over time and distance. Formerly titled Butter Knife.

The Well-Tempered Clavier is a family comedy about the Choi family over four weddings and a funeral. As white Americans, Japanese Americans, and Mexican Americans marry into the family, the Chois must confront their uniquely Chinese American assimilation and cultural baggage.

In do this in [x] of me, Aoife and Siobhan navigate technology and memory through Catholic mass and Irish mysticism. This work invokes ritual as it explores the internal experience of memory loss.

Taylor Lao has worked for 10 years at a women’s magazine to their emotional aspiration’s fulfilment and their wallet’s disgrace. Their favorite things feel like a distant memory, especially their best friend Bee Ngo and their high school crush Kevin Tanaka, the hometown golden-boy-basketball-star. But when Taylor loses their job and Kevin’s family Christmas tree farm starts to fail, the solution to keeping in good graces with their parents is clear: an elaborate holiday ruse to convince everyone they’re in love -- while Taylor is actually falling for Bee.

Katie Farrington, a bright young magazine writer, loves love, New York, and Jane Austen novels. As she faces pressure from her family to marry after her father’s death, she re-imagines her life as an Austen-esque comedy, just as her close friend, Jim Washington, swears men and women can’t be friends: “women have seen too many romantic comedies and always expect to fall in love.” The play subverts and exaggerates romcom conventions while staying true to its somewhat silly spirit: love really can conquer all.

Call Out Culture dissects race, gender, and sexuality through the personal lens of a queer mixed Asian American femme and through the political lens of imperialism. The work threads through personal history: the playwright's grandmother's time in Hong Kong as a result of fleeing Japanese imperialism and subsequent unrest in China as well as their experiences as a mixed person in America and China. This play invokes postcolonial theory, Brechtian theater practices, and pop culture to get at the connections between harm and healing.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. The Bennet family has five eligible daughters, none of them yet married. When new eligible bachelors come to town, Jane Bennet falls for the quiet Mr. Bingley while Lizzy Bennet hates moneyed Mr. Darcy... or does she? A new adaptation of the Jane Austen classic.

Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, has lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her. She considers herself an accomplished matchmaker and loving community member, but her family friend Mr. Knightley thinks she's often misguided. What happens when love finally catches up with Emma? An adaptation of the Jane Austen classic.

The second Civil War is over, ladies, and the all-female revolution has taken hold. Ethnically ambigulous Lily Bart, born into great privilege but not great bitcoin, must navigate a dangerous world: New York's high society.

A loose take on Strindberg’s Miss Julie. Takes place during the first Pride weekend after a long period of confinement. In this adaptation, all the characters are queer, and the class warfare of Strindberg’s original takes a more violent and graphic turn.

In a universe where the earth has become inhospitable, women have created Alternative World 31, an uberfeminist dystopia orbiting through space. Polenta is destined to become the new world’s next singing sensation, but a rebellion creeping up from below has made her an easy target for the current regime, led by the dictatorial superfemme/music industry insider Leaderfriend Carter.

A musical exploration of three forgotten killer women from American history. Featuring a cutthroat palate of haunting vocals and live instrumentals, Ambition gives voice to a trio of dark, long-silenced stories: those of Belle Gunness, Jane Toppan, and Nannie Doss. After receiving a workshop performance at Dixon Place, one of New York City’s premier downtown theater venues, Ambition played 2016 Planet Connections Theatre Festivity (PCTF), and Ars Nova’s ANT (All New Talent) Fest. It took home three awards at PCTF, including Outstanding Production of a Musical and Outstanding Music and Lyrics.

On Halloween night, four early-20s coworkers made a pact to go to their local bar as Powerful Historical Women, but one of them shows up dressed as a Sexy Cat. The ensuing melee falls out in the ladies’ room.

On (probably) her last day on earth, 104 year-old model-turned-gossip columnist-turned-murder suspect-turned-psychiatric ward tenant Audrey Munson aurally writes her own obituary to anyone who will listen. Based on real-life history and lies, which are basically the same.

Ten minute one act. Ary and Chea revel in the mundane--dinner plans, recapping work, raising their child day to day--as they face deportation proceedings despite having spent their entire lives in America. A play about family, love, and a longing for a homeland which may never have existed.

Oak and Marbles know how to make things grow, but somehow they keep forgetting. In this surrealist examination of Asian American community building, three generations must figure out how to persevere and survive.