Katie Đỗ

Katie Đỗ (she/her/hers) is a Vietnamese-American woman with a mouth from New Jersey. Currently, she is a member of the Public's Emerging Writers Group and is a proud alum of the Sống Collective's Việt Writers Lab. In 2021, she was the staff writer for Partner Track on Netflix and wrote episode 107: Talking Points. Her play love you long time (already) was a part of the Pacific Playwrights Festival (directed by Mei Ann Teo) as well as the Atlantic Theater Company's MixFest (directed by Cara Hinh), both in 2022. who hurt you?, her new play, had a developmental reading back in May 2022 at 59E59, produced by the Sống Collective (directed by Teresa Cruz). She is represented by Creative Artists Agency.
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Feel free to fill in the contact form or contact my reps to read my work :)

Katie Đỗ (she/her/hers) is a Vietnamese-American woman with a mouth from New Jersey. Currently, she is a member of the Public's Emerging Writers Group and is a proud alum of the Sống Collective's Việt Writers Lab. In 2021, she was the staff writer for Partner Track on Netflix and wrote episode 107: Talking Points. Her play love you long time (already) was a part of the Pacific Playwrights Festival (directed by Mei Ann Teo) as well as the Atlantic Theater Company's MixFest (directed by Cara Hinh), both in 2022. who hurt you?, her new play, had a developmental reading back in May 2022 at 59E59, produced by the Sống Collective (directed by Teresa Cruz). She is represented by Creative Artists Agency.
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Feel free to fill in the contact form or contact my reps to read my work :)

Scripts

who hurt you?

by Katie Đỗ

1
Cast Size
5
Genre
dark comedy,
drama

Ellie and Kira are two Vietnamese-American actors who always find themselves in the same audition rooms. As their lives become more intertwined with the same lovers, friends, and opportunities, Ellie’s jealousy spirals into a battle with insecurity, mental health and an epic heartbreak. When fear and coincidence bring Ellie to a life and death situation, her loved ones come together to ask, who hurt you? and...

Ellie and Kira are two Vietnamese-American actors who always find themselves in the same audition rooms. As their lives become more intertwined with the same lovers, friends, and opportunities, Ellie’s jealousy spirals into a battle with insecurity, mental health and an epic heartbreak. When fear and coincidence bring Ellie to a life and death situation, her loved ones come together to ask, who hurt you? and, most importantly, who hurt Ellie?.

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love you long time (already)

by Katie Đỗ

Cast Size
4
Genre
dark comedy,
drama

love you long time (already) begins in heaven Saigon. There, we find a Vietnamese woman, Mai, waiting to experience a pinnacle of joy. The story unfolds in the hands of her daughter, Tâm, who leads us through the arc of their relationship from 1974 to 2018. As their memories begin to blur and their dreams begin to overlap, Tâm wrestles with her responsibility to her mother as they both experience assimilation...

love you long time (already) begins in heaven Saigon. There, we find a Vietnamese woman, Mai, waiting to experience a pinnacle of joy. The story unfolds in the hands of her daughter, Tâm, who leads us through the arc of their relationship from 1974 to 2018. As their memories begin to blur and their dreams begin to overlap, Tâm wrestles with her responsibility to her mother as they both experience assimilation and heartbreak. Eventually, Mai begins to lose her memory and continues to decline. As Tâm makes sense of her mother’s life and contemplates what is worth remembering, she might be able to redefine what love means for the both of them and perhaps discover what heaven could really look like.

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