The Great War is over. The Kaiser has abdicated. Chaos rules in 1920 Berlin. Communist Greta and Liberal Christa spend their days on opposite sides of the boxing ring and their nights cuddling in a disheveled Neukölln apartment. But they will soon find themselves on opposite sides of a building coup d'etat in this tragic romantic thriller about loyalty, courage, the rise of the far right, and the fight to stay alive. MORE INFO >

Kayla and Brenna have it all together – as long as Kayla knows you don’t hate her and Brenna has an exacting plan to anticipate your needs. They don’t need to think about the adoption agency they keep saying they’ll go to for information about their first family or the codependent ticking time bomb of their friendship! EVERYTHING. IS. FINE. It is, right? You’d tell them if it wasn’t, right? Do You Think I’m Annoying? is an anxious coming-of-age cyclone of obsessive compulsion, debilitating self-hatred, and the agonizing fear of being unlovable. MORE INFO >

Former nobleman Ippolit Mateyevich Vorobyaninov’s dreary life in the early Soviet Union is about to change forever when he discovers his spiteful mother-in-law hid the family jewels in one of their dining room chairs before the Revolution. Together with a dashing con artist, Vorobyaninov must embark on an epic quest across Russia to recover the lost riches. Based on the 1928 novel by Ilya Ilf & Evgeny Petrov, 12 Chairs is an epic adventure satire exploring glory, greed, and a country desperate for the advancement of the collective good. It is a commentary on the Soviet Union and nothing else. Yeah, nothing else. You can’t prove otherwise, you haven’t even seen it. Wow, maybe you should see the play before contradicting us, you ever think about that? Wow. There’s always one. Do better. MORE INFO >

Saved is a two-part theatrical epic that traces the Cold War origins of the transnational Korean adoption industry – and its place in the broader exploitative systems of colonialism and global capitalism. MORE INFO >

In this time-jumping fever dream satire, bestselling Asian American author Olivia returns to the Chinatown she wrote about, but the only thing that feels welcoming in the rapidly gentrifying neighborhood is a group of successful old college classmates who have recently moved in and are suddenly very excited to hang out with her. Olivia believes she has finally found her community — but the more she learns about her new friends’ role in transforming the area, the more she feels like she has to choose between the lifestyle her career has afforded her and the values she preaches in her writing. MORE INFO >

A Philadelphia reporter is laid off from her newspaper job and tumbles down the nerve-wracking rabbit hole of an Amazon Warehouse, a Convergys call center, and a busy downtown McDonald’s. Adapted from journalist Emily Guendelsberger's gripping nonfiction account, On the Clock is a non-linear nightmare that explores the unending mental torture of low-wage work in America. MORE INFO >

In the newly created center of Berlin’s Northern Vietnamese community, Lili, a 14-year-old Vietnamese middle school student, and her sister Nathalie struggle to repair their relationship after the death of their late mother. When Lili befriends her German former bully – who has a dark secret of his own – the sisters' relationship to their adopted country and to each other will be pushed to the brink. MORE INFO >

As Creatives Rebuild New York Resident Artist at Ma-Yi Theater Company, I created three new American "Learning Plays," in the tradition of Bertolt Brecht, for contemporary working-class audiences. MORE INFO >

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