Meet the Playwright features semi-staged readings of new works by BIIPOC playwrights, plus Q&As with creative teams.
About the Play: In what seems like reality, Tina and Ting'an reflect on their shared memories and experiences. As their discussion escalates into boundary-breaking teases, and then a catastrophic fight that explores different genres of dances and martial arts, the truths of their existence, identity, and body are being revealed. In the aftermath of their war, they negotiate their co-existence in different realms of reality and fantasy.
Actors: Natsumi Sasabe, Minna Kim, Kacie Koen
About the Playwright: Chelsea Dai (she/they) is an emerging Chinese writer and artist based in New York and Los Angeles. She is currently studying Playwriting, Production Design, and Literature at UCLA.
Chelsea's works have been seen at The Tank and recognized by UCLA Library's International & Area Studies and Pulitzer Center Fighting Words Poetry Contest. She's been a part of Youth
Artistic Instigators at New York Theatre Workshop, TV Writing/Writer's Room summer residency at Iowa Young Writers' Studio; and she's currently a part of Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning (JCAL)'s Meet the Playwright program. Chelsea's works explore themes of Asian American communities and diaspora, womanhood, magical realism, dark comedy, and satire.
When she is not writing, she could be remaking thriffed clothes or working with the local community as a teaching artist.
