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), FUTURE WIFE (Theatertreffen Stückemarkt), and Party in a Google Sheet (New Georges).

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

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

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

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

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

Scripts

Isabel

by reid tang

3
Cast Size
3
Genre
dark comedy,
horror

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

2
Cast Size
6—12
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
experimental,
movement/physical,
political,
tragedy

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?

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WORK HARD HAVE FUN MAKE HISTORY

by reid tang

3
Cast Size
3
Genre
dark comedy,
experimental

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

3
Cast Size
6—9
Genre
drama,
experimental,
movement/physical

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.