Chiori Miyagawa

Chiori Miyagawa, a NYC-based playwright. Her plays include: This Lingering Life, I Have Been to Hiroshima Mon Amour, I Came to Look for You on Tuesday, Antigone Project and others. Twelve of her plays are collected in two books: Thousand Years Waiting and Other Plays and America Dreaming and Other Plays. She is an alumnus of New Dramatists and a recipient of many fellowships including McKnight Playwriting Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts Playwriting Fellowship, Rockefeller Bellagio Fellowship in Italy, and Radcliffe Institute Fellowship at Harvard University. She teaches playwriting at Bard College.

Chiori Miyagawa, a NYC-based playwright. Her plays include: This Lingering Life, I Have Been to Hiroshima Mon Amour, I Came to Look for You on Tuesday, Antigone Project and others. Twelve of her plays are collected in two books: Thousand Years Waiting and Other Plays and America Dreaming and Other Plays. She is an alumnus of New Dramatists and a recipient of many fellowships including McKnight Playwriting Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts Playwriting Fellowship, Rockefeller Bellagio Fellowship in Italy, and Radcliffe Institute Fellowship at Harvard University. She teaches playwriting at Bard College.

Scripts

A Winter's Captive,A Comical Calamity

by Chiori Miyagawa

Cast Size
3—4
Genre
biography,
comedy,
drama,
experimental

Miguel Angel Flores, a 23-year-old homeless undocumented immigrant, falls to his death through the ice of a pond in Central Park. No one reports him missing. Erica, the only witness, is thrown into a whirlwind journey from Jamestown to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory to the trial of Ethel Rosenberg—accompanied by the stranger, Miguel—until she must make a decision about her own life.

Miguel Angel Flores, a 23-year-old homeless undocumented immigrant, falls to his death through the ice of a pond in Central Park. No one reports him missing. Erica, the only witness, is thrown into a whirlwind journey from Jamestown to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory to the trial of Ethel Rosenberg—accompanied by the stranger, Miguel—until she must make a decision about her own life.

This Lingering Life

by Chiori Miyagawa

Cast Size
6—28
Genre
adaptation,
adventure,
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
experimental

At turns poignant and hilarious, like the classic Noh plays which inspired it, the play looks at the human condition through the Buddhist concept of Karma and explores the deep human desires and attachment. Taking place in the present time in someplace like the U.S., except when it happens elsewhere or in an ancient era, This Lingering Life follows the journeys of a woman with tragic hair, feudal warriors, a...

At turns poignant and hilarious, like the classic Noh plays which inspired it, the play looks at the human condition through the Buddhist concept of Karma and explores the deep human desires and attachment. Taking place in the present time in someplace like the U.S., except when it happens elsewhere or in an ancient era, This Lingering Life follows the journeys of a woman with tragic hair, feudal warriors, a mother whose son was kidnapped, a blind beggar, dead lovers, an old man in love with a teenager, a boy whose father is an arrow, and other sentient beings as they seek answers to Life’s biggest questions.

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