ruth tang

ruth tang

ruth tang writes plays and makes weird internet experiments. Their work includes WORK HARD HAVE FUN MAKE HISTORY (Clubbed Thumb Summerworks 2023), FUTURE WIFE (Theatertreffen Stückemarkt 2022), and Party in A Google Sheet (New Georges). They’re under commission from NAATCO + Long Wharf Theatre, a recipient of the Sundance Institute Interdisciplinary Program Grant, and a finalist for the Jerome Hill Artist...
ruth tang writes plays and makes weird internet experiments. Their work includes WORK HARD HAVE FUN MAKE HISTORY (Clubbed Thumb Summerworks 2023), FUTURE WIFE (Theatertreffen Stückemarkt 2022), and Party in A Google Sheet (New Georges). They’re under commission from NAATCO + Long Wharf Theatre, a recipient of the Sundance Institute Interdisciplinary Program Grant, and a finalist for the Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship 2023/4. Currently, they are part of Ars Nova's Play Group and 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.

Plays

  • Isabel by ruth tang
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: dark comedy, horror
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    Keyword: gender is scary, don't go into the woods alone + 1 more
    Genre: dark comedy, horror
    Keyword: gender is scary, don't go into the woods alone, queer 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.
  • FUTURE WIFE by ruth tang
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    6–12
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 4 more
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    Keyword: love is invented, capitalism + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, experimental, movement/physical, political, tragedy
    Keyword: love is invented, capitalism, death, IN THIS ECONOMY??
    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...
    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 ruth tang
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: dark comedy, experimental
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    Keyword: eat the rich, i mean it + 1 more
    Genre: dark comedy, experimental
    Keyword: eat the rich, i mean it, or send them to space forever
    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 ruth tang
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    6–9
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    Genre: drama, experimental + 1 more
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    Keyword: weird, queer + 1 more
    Genre: drama, experimental, movement/physical
    Keyword: weird, queer, shapeshifting genderless creatures
    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.