Ethan Luk

ETHAN LUK (he/him) was born and raised in Hong Kong. He thinks and works across performance, writing, and image-based mediums. His work has been recognized by 92Y, The Kennedy Center, One Teen Story, and The Adroit Journal among others. His writing is featured in Asian American Writers’ Workshop (forthcoming August 2024), Asia Art Archive, Sine Theta Magazine, and Verve Poetry Press among others. His play Flight of a Legless Bird was named a finalist at the 2023 National Playwrights Conference (Eugene O’Neill Theater Center) and the 46th Bay Area Playwrights Festival (Playwrights Foundation). He graduated from Princeton University in May 2024, with an A.B. in Comparative Literature and certificates in Theater, Music Theater, Dance, and Creative Writing. At Princeton, he was the recipient...

ETHAN LUK (he/him) was born and raised in Hong Kong. He thinks and works across performance, writing, and image-based mediums. His work has been recognized by 92Y, The Kennedy Center, One Teen Story, and The Adroit Journal among others. His writing is featured in Asian American Writers’ Workshop (forthcoming August 2024), Asia Art Archive, Sine Theta Magazine, and Verve Poetry Press among others. His play Flight of a Legless Bird was named a finalist at the 2023 National Playwrights Conference (Eugene O’Neill Theater Center) and the 46th Bay Area Playwrights Festival (Playwrights Foundation). He graduated from Princeton University in May 2024, with an A.B. in Comparative Literature and certificates in Theater, Music Theater, Dance, and Creative Writing. At Princeton, he was the recipient of the Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts, the Robert and Lynne Fagles Senior Thesis Prize, and the Theodore H. Holmes '51 and Bernice Holmes Poetry Prize. In the fall, he will be a first-year student at the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program at The Juilliard School.

Scripts

Flight of a Legless Bird

by Ethan Luk

Cast Size

6—8

Genre

docudrama/historic,

drama,

fantasy,

translation

FLIGHT OF A LEGLESS BIRD follows and braids the lives of Robin and Leslie, two queer artists, from the 1980s to the 2000s. Robin, a filmmaker in New York's West Village, confronts the reality of a HIV/AIDS diagnosis, while Leslie, an accomplished Cantopop star and actor, grapples with his personal hurdles in bustling Hong Kong. Their worlds collide by chance, establishing an elusive, emotional bond between the...

FLIGHT OF A LEGLESS BIRD follows and braids the lives of Robin and Leslie, two queer artists, from the 1980s to the 2000s. Robin, a filmmaker in New York's West Village, confronts the reality of a HIV/AIDS diagnosis, while Leslie, an accomplished Cantopop star and actor, grapples with his personal hurdles in bustling Hong Kong. Their worlds collide by chance, establishing an elusive, emotional bond between the two men that defies time and space. Fusing multiple languages, geographies, and temporalities, the play’s fictional intertwining reflects a desire to forge new queer mythologies and connections, while probing the fraught relationship between art-making and times of societal crisis.