Other Plays
Short plays and theatrical work presented under particular circumstances (site-specific, commissioned, etc).
Learning Time with Gonk and Stacy!
About
One-act, 15 minutes
Production on the children’s puppet show Learning Time with Gonk and Stacy is hindered by its tyrannical director, who seems oddly incapable of recognizing that the puppets are, well, puppets.
Directed by Michelle Chan
Produced by Paige Esterly
Chance Riley Kester as Gonk/Gonk’s puppeteer
Christine Pollnow as Stacy
Kenjiro Lee as Terence the Toucan/Terence’s puppeteer
Elizabeth Ombrellaro as Cal/Gonk’s right hand
Keith Weiss as the Director
Performed at Fucked-Up Play Fest, Caveat NYC, August 30, 2024
Jack’s Beard
About
One-act, 10 minutes
Jack, a teenager who has grown a beard, feels social pressure to keep it. It is only through the dream realm that he is able to learn to accept himself and do what makes him happy.
It’s really fucking weird, y’all.
Directed by Abbey Joan Burgess
Produced by Alison Yueming Qu
Jesse Castellanos as Jack
Eric J. Cheng as Donald Trump in a Speedo
Jessie Shaw as the Shapeshifter
Mya Wong as The Mysterious One
Performed at The 24 Hour Plays: Nationals, virtual, July 2021
A Black Widow Gives A Ted Talk
About
Monologue, 5 minutes
A woman who has married three times with each husband dying under increasingly suspicious circumstances gives a TED Talk on the hypothetical art of killing your spouse.
with Jasmine Sharma
The 24 Hour Plays: Viral Monologues Nationals Edition, July 2021
MOMENTS: A Guide to Casual Living, ft. Jin and Julie
About
One-act, 30 minutes, 2 characters
Moments documents a day in the life of Jin and Julie, two grifters from Bergen County, New Jersey who spend a day in the park. Waiting for Godot meets Jay and Silent Bob meets The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy.
Paper Kraine Presents: Late Night Double Feature PK Show, dir. Ariel Urim Chung, Paper Kraine Productions, Kraine Theater, October 2021. With Kenjiro Lee and Victoria Provost.
Playwrights and Librettists Week, dir. Hayden Eric, NTI Spring ‘21. With Kenjiro Lee and Genevieve Knowles.
PRIMAL: A MONOLOGUE FOR OUR TIMES
About
One-act, 5 minutes
In this short play loosely inspired by the Neo-Futurists, a performer rants about the great frustrations in life during a global catastrophe and encourages their audience to scream with them.
Smart Museum of Art, January 2021
Monologues Presentation, dir. Sophie Sam, National Theater Institute Theatermakers Summer Intensive, August 2020
Presented as part of Smart Museum of Art’s initiative “Beyond Pomp and Circumstance to the Problems of Our Time.” PRIMAL is free to be performed and altered as needed
On Sean
About
One act, 20-minutes
A series of monologues centered around Sean, an 8th Grade student struggling to fit in who is involved in a particularly traumatic incident at school. Told from the perspective of his hard-working mother, his well-meaning teacher, a classmate, and Sean himself.
John Murphy as Sean
Gabriella O’Fallon as Mary
Cassidy Brown as Mrs. Kent
Arlyss Hays as Hannah
Monologue Festival, National Theater Institute Theatermakers Summer Intensive, July 2020
The Asian Crime Show Play
Powerhouse 2019 Production
About
One-act, 15 minutes, 4 characters
Born from my childhood love of procedural crime dramas, The Asian Crime Show Play lampoons the structure and format of shows like CSI: Miami while confronting the representation discussion.
The Freshmen One Act Festival, dir. Julia Shin and Daniel Yu, Hamilton Murray Theatre, Theatre Intime at Princeton University, November 2022.
Weekend of Workshops, dir. Seth Nguyen, Francis X. Kinahan Theatre, University Theater at UChicago, February 2020. With Cole Meldorf, Chong An Ong, and Olivia Weng.
Paper Kraine Presents: Everything is Very Scary, dir. Diane Chen, Kraine Theatre, Paper Kraine Productions, October 2019. With Justin Chiao, Kathleen Kwan, Kathy Huynh-Phan, Robert Leverett, and Charles Hayes IV.
New Works Play Festival, dir. Vick Liu, Powerhouse Theater, July 2019. With Julie Cai, Kevin Chaikelson, Rahul Makwana, and Char Nakashima-Conway.
Turtlespotting
About
One-act, 5 minutes
There’s a pond on the Vassar College campus with a sign in front of it that reads “No Fishing, Swimming, or Skating at any time.” Why have a pond in the first place? And if you can’t do any of that, what do you end up doing instead?
Directed by John DeSantis
Aaron Linker as Sammy
Miranda Nicole Cooper as Victoria
Michael Ehrecke as Mason
Site-Specific Plays Festival, Powerhouse Theater Apprentice Program, June 2019
Miranda Nicole Cooper and Aaron Linker
Aaron Linker and Michael Ehrecke
Miranda Nicole Cooper
Aaron Linker
Michael Ehrecke
Aaron Linker and Michael Ehrecke
Noir
About
One-act, 45 minutes
A parody of noir and whodunnit? mystery stories. Riff Henderson and Reese Macintosh, two wise-cracking, pun-making private eyes, are called to a dinner party to investigate a murder that hasn’t happened yet. Don’t worry: there are several.
Elisabeth Morrow School Theater Week, June 2014