reid tang

reid tang writes plays and makes weird internet experiments. Their past work includes Isabel (NAATCO), WORK HARD HAVE FUN MAKE HISTORY (Clubbed Thumb Summerworks), FUTURE WIFE (Theatertreffen Stückemarkt), and Party in a Google Sheet (New Georges).

They’re under commission with Breaking the Binary Theatre & New York Theatre Workshop and a past recipient of the Sundance Institute Interdisciplinary Program Grant. Currently, they are part of Ars Nova's Play Group, and an alum of the New Georges Jam, Clubbed Thumb’s Early Career Writers' Group, and NYTW’s 2050 Fellowship.

They grew up in Singapore and presently live in Brooklyn, NY.

(Photo credit: Peter Bellamy)

reid tang writes plays and makes weird internet experiments. Their past work includes Isabel (NAATCO), WORK HARD HAVE FUN MAKE HISTORY (Clubbed Thumb Summerworks), FUTURE WIFE (Theatertreffen Stückemarkt), and Party in a Google Sheet (New Georges).

They’re under commission with Breaking the Binary Theatre & New York Theatre Workshop and a past recipient of the Sundance Institute Interdisciplinary Program Grant. Currently, they are part of Ars Nova's Play Group, and an alum of the New Georges Jam, Clubbed Thumb’s Early Career Writers' Group, and NYTW’s 2050 Fellowship.

They grew up in Singapore and presently live in Brooklyn, NY.

(Photo credit: Peter Bellamy)

Scripts

BOIDS

by reid tang

Synopsis

It's time to go to men's group. In men's group we sit in a circle and talk about our feelings. This is important. Your feelings are important. It's a wonderful place, men's group. You may cry. You may say all your secret feelings about women. You will be taught what it is to be a real man.

Five men go to men's group to be taught how to be a proper man—by a woman. Fortunately, gender isn't real.

It's time to go to men's group. In men's group we sit in a circle and talk about our feelings. This is important. Your feelings are important. It's a wonderful place, men's group. You may cry. You may say all your secret feelings about women. You will be taught what it is to be a real man.

Five men go to men's group to be taught how to be a proper man—by a woman. Fortunately, gender isn't real.

Isabel

by reid tang

Synopsis

It's the staircase in the woods again. You know the one. Mysterious, abandoned, the one everyone says you shouldn't climb. Well—maybe if you did, everything would be different. Maybe you would become something else entirely. Something you've always feared you secretly already were.

It's the staircase in the woods again. You know the one. Mysterious, abandoned, the one everyone says you shouldn't climb. Well—maybe if you did, everything would be different. Maybe you would become something else entirely. Something you've always feared you secretly already were.

FUTURE WIFE

by reid tang

Synopsis

A romantic tragedy about goats and the economy. On a production line, which is also the entire world, a woman and a goat meet and fall in love, despite the blood. Despite the knives. In the distant past, and the far future, choruses of pirates and goats convene to discuss important questions about their societies: Is this the best economy we could invent? Who invented it? Who must die to keep the economy running...

A romantic tragedy about goats and the economy. On a production line, which is also the entire world, a woman and a goat meet and fall in love, despite the blood. Despite the knives. In the distant past, and the far future, choruses of pirates and goats convene to discuss important questions about their societies: Is this the best economy we could invent? Who invented it? Who must die to keep the economy running, and how can we make those deaths as invisible and exciting as possible?

WORK HARD HAVE FUN MAKE HISTORY

by reid tang

Synopsis

A catalog of all the possible phone calls that exist. A play that is not about Amazon, not about Jeff Bezos and certainly not about Elon Musk.

A catalog of all the possible phone calls that exist. A play that is not about Amazon, not about Jeff Bezos and certainly not about Elon Musk.

the fucking tent

by reid tang

Synopsis

Norihiro wants to leave his body. He's tired of his office job and his wife and secretly fucking his lover Takuma in a children's tent. He's in luck: there's someone willing to take his body over, to become him. So he goes.

Norihiro wants to leave his body. He's tired of his office job and his wife and secretly fucking his lover Takuma in a children's tent. He's in luck: there's someone willing to take his body over, to become him. So he goes.