Don’t miss Pan Asian Repertory Theatre’s annual festival of new experimental works by Asian American artists, featuring brave, bold voices that play with form, mix disciplines and center the Asian American experience. NuWorks 2024 features an eclectic range of voices from Japan, Korea, Filipinotown and West Virginia with motifs of butoh, opera, poetics, puppetry and stand up.
PROGRAM A
L’opera!
Written by Kurt Sanchez Kanazawa
Directed by Jeff Liu & Kalina Ko
A fun-loving, Japanese and Filipino American opera singer gets into The Juilliard School…. then loses his voice.
Parity
Written by Howard Ho
Directed by Austin Ku & Jully Lee
Performed by Jully Lee
Parity was a law of physics until a Chinese American woman Chien-Shiung Wu, Queen of Nuclear Research disproved it against all odds.
PROGRAM B
Wash N Fold
Written by Patrick Lee
Performed by Kendrick Carter and Robert Zhu
A heartwarming chance encounter between two strangers who are polar opposites, but find commonality and healing.
Body Count
Written and performed by Joy Regullano
Directed by Fran de Leon
A comic riff through a female Asian American lens of shitty relationships, sexuality and family dysfunction.
PROGRAM C
Peach Boy
Written by Kenjiro Lee
Directed by Alexandra Darcy Haddad
Performed by Kana Seiki and Kenjiro Lee
The puppet version of Momotaro, a boy born from a peach, who sets off on a quest to the island of Onigashima to fight the wicked oni, assisted by a dog, a monkey and a pheasant in traditional Japanese kamishibai storytelling.
OriGen Story
Written By Nina Ki
Directed by Chris Yejin
Performed by Zoë Kim and Sarah Shin
Dramaturgy by Amrita Ramanan
A biomythographical play collage about the life experiences of queer Korean playwright, Nina Ki.
PROGRAM D
Solitude
Created and performed by azumi O E
A Butoh-infused dance creation that explores identity and ancestral memories through visceral metaphor and expressionistic symbolic lighting.
Halfanese Two Halves of a Whole Idiot
Written and performed by Cody LeRoy Wilson
Sound design by Cameron Williams
A stand-up roller coaster meets clowning show as Cody shares his journey to New York City where he finds himself, his Asian identity and... his dad?
