Ajai Tripathi

Ajai Tripathi is an award-winning writer, actor, director and teacher based in Oregon. An alumnus of the David Lynch Graduate School of Cinematic Art, he is practitioner of Transcendental Meditation, and his writings are noted for their lyrical prose, emotional complexity and raw honesty. A writer of Indian-Mexican descent, his work explores elements of his cultural background and themes of identity as a queer person of color. He most recently concluded his acclaimed Great White Trilogy with Fuse Theatre Ensemble, a reading of Dreams of a Celestial Night with the OUTwright Theatre Festival and The Rainbow Passage with 21ten Theatre. His screenplays have won plaudits from NYC International, PageTurner International Screenplay Association, Portland Screenplay Awards and Geneva International...

Ajai Tripathi is an award-winning writer, actor, director and teacher based in Oregon. An alumnus of the David Lynch Graduate School of Cinematic Art, he is practitioner of Transcendental Meditation, and his writings are noted for their lyrical prose, emotional complexity and raw honesty. A writer of Indian-Mexican descent, his work explores elements of his cultural background and themes of identity as a queer person of color. He most recently concluded his acclaimed Great White Trilogy with Fuse Theatre Ensemble, a reading of Dreams of a Celestial Night with the OUTwright Theatre Festival and The Rainbow Passage with 21ten Theatre. His screenplays have won plaudits from NYC International, PageTurner International Screenplay Association, Portland Screenplay Awards and Geneva International Science in Fiction Screenplay Awards.

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Scripts

Great White Gives It Up

by Ajai Tripathi

Cast Size
2
Genre
adventure,
comedy,
dark comedy,
docudrama/historic,
political,
romantic comedy

A follow-up to Tripathi’s Great White Gets Off, this stand alone play follows Bert and Sandeep in the next part of their journey, discovering whether love across cultures can really last.

Hoping to bring their relationship to the next phase, Bert proposes to Sandeep with his mother’s Claddagh ring on their romantic trip to the Ireland. But as they take their odyssey through Dublin, role playing as their...

A follow-up to Tripathi’s Great White Gets Off, this stand alone play follows Bert and Sandeep in the next part of their journey, discovering whether love across cultures can really last.

Hoping to bring their relationship to the next phase, Bert proposes to Sandeep with his mother’s Claddagh ring on their romantic trip to the Ireland. But as they take their odyssey through Dublin, role playing as their favorite revolutionaries from India and Ireland, the specter of war, empire and occupation threatens their identities in ways that become harder and harder to reconcile. Bert and Sandeep must attempt to stand on solid ground together, wondering if they can ever have a future with one foot solidly planted in the past.

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Great White Gets Off

by Ajai Tripathi

Cast Size
2
Genre
dark comedy,
drama,
romantic comedy

Great White Gets Off follows on a single night between Snakecharmer and Great White, two men who meet on a hook-up app.

Looking for some fun, they embrace their dom/sub tendencies and start into roleplay, but what starts as tantalizing fun leads them into rocky ground as real life racial inequities seep into each scene they attempt to explore.

Through sexual role play, they investigate whether two men can find...

Great White Gets Off follows on a single night between Snakecharmer and Great White, two men who meet on a hook-up app.

Looking for some fun, they embrace their dom/sub tendencies and start into roleplay, but what starts as tantalizing fun leads them into rocky ground as real life racial inequities seep into each scene they attempt to explore.

Through sexual role play, they investigate whether two men can find a connection while navigating shifting power dynamics, racial resentments, and the ongoing influence of colonialism.

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