
YOKO'S HUSBAND'S KILLER'S
GLORIA
JAPANESE WIFE
BRANDY HOANG COLLIER
CLARE FUYUKO BIERMAN
ERIKA JI ERIKA JI ERIKA JI
Did Yoko Ono really break up The Beatles? Could Gloria Abe Chapman have saved John Lennon? Why do these egotistical white guys always marry Asians? That's weird, right? These questions keep Ruby Okamoto up at night, and she needs answers.
In Yoko’s Husband’s Killer’s Japanese Wife, Gloria, five Asian American women are summoned into Ruby’s fantastical dreamscape. Here, subconscious thoughts manifest as real-life rockstars and movie monsters. They journey, dream, and address the hard-to-define-but-definitely-there connection between Asians in America.
DEVELOPMENT HISTORY
November 2022
29-hour reading at Playwright's Horizons in New York, NY
sponsored by the 5th Avenue Theatre
Cast: Ashley Chiu, Brooke Ishibashi, Emy Coligado, Lydia Gaston,
Minji Kim, Rheanna Atendido, U.J. Mangune.
Director: Sara Porkalob, Music Director: Steven Tran, Guitarist: Tonie Nguyen
Stage Manager: Malie Fujii, Production Assistant: Non Kuramoto
Associate Director of New Works: Neen Williams-Teramachi.
October 2022
joined the Civilians' R&D Group
June 2022
table reading at the 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle, WA
May 2021
commissioned by the 5th Avenue Theatre First Draft program
UPCOMING DEVELOPMENT
June 2023
reading with the Civilians' R&D Group
with additional funding courtesy of the 5th Avenue Theatre and NAMT
via the Frank Young Fund for New Musicals Project Development Grant
July 2023
to be announced
September 2023
to be announced