Plays

someone who isn't me

someone who isn't me follows the story of the Wakahisa family, a Japanese-American family of four living in Cambridge, MA. Cathy's an ex-music producer from L.A. Leo is on faculty at Harvard, going up against his Institutional Review Board, Cody's an Olympic wrestling hopeful, and Felix loves "How I Met Your Mother." When an opportunity in L.A. comes knocking and a prank goes awry at Cody's school, Cathy must decide what comes first: her happiness, or her family's.

Developed with generous support from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

5m, 1f, full-length play, 6 p.o.c.

Weeaboo*

Hiro's a recent Berklee grad who spends his nights playing Ed Sheeran covers on the Boston Common and in dive bars in Cambridge. Fiona's an ex-aspiring actor attending a prestigious Boston Law School. When his sushi chef father falls ill in Tokyo, Hiro asks Fiona to leave Boston behind and move to Tokyo to help him look after his father. A year later, Hiro returns to America to find his now ex-girlfriend Fiona dating a new guy, Daniel, who's Irish-American, but who just happens to be obsessed with Japanese culture.

The Melting Pot*

Matt just landed his first job out of college. The only problem? It’s a Chinese hot pot restaurant, and he’s the only white boy working there. Armed with just his New Hampshire isolationist personality and an Associate’s degree in nursing, Matt takes on the flurry of his Vietnamese-American supervisors, Korean-and-Chinese-American servers, Honduran dishwashers, and the Cambodian busboys. As he works his way up the food chain from busboy to bar-back to food runner to server, he wonders: Will he ever make supervisor? Does he even want to? ​The Melting Pot takes us through the post-graduate life and what it means to really have a survival job.
​
7f, 6m, full-length play, 12 p.o.c.

*Denotes still in development/workshopping processes

NEXT