Minghao Tu

Minghao Tu is an immigrant playwright from Wuhan, China. He has been a 2050 Artistic Fellow at New York Theatre Workshop, a Van Lier Fellow at Rattlestick Theater, a Jerome Fellow at the Playwrights’ Center, a resident artist at Berkeley Rep's Ground Floor 2022, a resident playwright of Pipeline Theatre Company's 2020/2021 PlayLab, and a 2021 Travis Bogard Artist-in-Residence at the Eugene O'Neill Foundation. His works have been presented/produced at Rattlestick Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Yangtze Repertory Theatre, Playwrights' Center, Tofte Lake Center, Voyage Theater Company, New York Public Library, Ground Floor Theatre, and UT New Theatre; featured on The Steppenwolf Theatre’s The Mix; Finalists: the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, and the 2021 Woodward/Newman Award...

Minghao Tu is an immigrant playwright from Wuhan, China. He has been a 2050 Artistic Fellow at New York Theatre Workshop, a Van Lier Fellow at Rattlestick Theater, a Jerome Fellow at the Playwrights’ Center, a resident artist at Berkeley Rep's Ground Floor 2022, a resident playwright of Pipeline Theatre Company's 2020/2021 PlayLab, and a 2021 Travis Bogard Artist-in-Residence at the Eugene O'Neill Foundation. His works have been presented/produced at Rattlestick Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Yangtze Repertory Theatre, Playwrights' Center, Tofte Lake Center, Voyage Theater Company, New York Public Library, Ground Floor Theatre, and UT New Theatre; featured on The Steppenwolf Theatre’s The Mix; Finalists: the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, and the 2021 Woodward/Newman Award at the Bloomington Playwrights Project; Semifinalists: PlayPenn, Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep, and Shakespeare's New Contemporaries at American Shakespeare Center. He has been a Jame A. Michener fellow at UT Austin (MFA: 2020).

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Scripts

Factory 812

by Minghao Tu

Cast Size
10—12
Genre
comedy,
drama,
tragedy

It’s 1999, after the Cold War and before the “Rise of China.” At the state-owned Factory 812 in Wuhan, a group of workers face layoffs as China accelerates its economic reform—the ruthless swing from the Soviet model to global capitalism. Soon the workers will learn that there is no such thing as a “job for life."

It’s 1999, after the Cold War and before the “Rise of China.” At the state-owned Factory 812 in Wuhan, a group of workers face layoffs as China accelerates its economic reform—the ruthless swing from the Soviet model to global capitalism. Soon the workers will learn that there is no such thing as a “job for life."

DYE HOUSE

by Minghao Tu

Cast Size
5—8
Genre
dark comedy,
drama,
political,
tragedy

Good Ol’ Ma, an aging Chinese mother, is determined to cure her American daughter-in-law Marie’s infertility with “folk medicine,” which turns out to be poisonous. A full-length tragicomedy, DYE HOUSE examines how this intercultural family collapses in the age of the China-U.S. decoupling.

Good Ol’ Ma, an aging Chinese mother, is determined to cure her American daughter-in-law Marie’s infertility with “folk medicine,” which turns out to be poisonous. A full-length tragicomedy, DYE HOUSE examines how this intercultural family collapses in the age of the China-U.S. decoupling.

A Fistful of Trespassing

by Minghao Tu

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Cast Size
7—20
Genre
comedy,
farce,
political,
romantic comedy,
satire

CLINT-JOHN
“I’m gonna take all the naked cowboys in Texas till I find myyy naked cowboy.”

Two guys fleeing a totalitarian country fancy the American Old West—Liberty Vale is obsessed with the idea of freedom and Clint-John with his cowboy lover. When a shipwreck leaves them stranded on an isolationist island, these wannabe cowboys do what the old Hollywood cowboys did: chase after love, refuge, and...

CLINT-JOHN
“I’m gonna take all the naked cowboys in Texas till I find myyy naked cowboy.”

Two guys fleeing a totalitarian country fancy the American Old West—Liberty Vale is obsessed with the idea of freedom and Clint-John with his cowboy lover. When a shipwreck leaves them stranded on an isolationist island, these wannabe cowboys do what the old Hollywood cowboys did: chase after love, refuge, and American myths—only in this zany world, with a bubble gun and ample camp. The ensuing shenanigans and havoc trigger burst bubbles for dupes and dupers alike. A FISTFUL OF TRESPASSING is a Shakespearean-Queer-Cowboy-Farce, in which bubbles burst like dynamite!

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