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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.

see photos by Eric Fernandez

 


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

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