Jason Purdy & Yan Li: Writer Pals
Photo credit: Kate Purdy
Sweet Nothings
A psychological horror musical about doing greatest evil in the pursuit of the greatest good.
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Developed at NYU. Reading directed by Benjamin Endsley Klein (Ann), featuring Margo Seibert (Rocky).
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Selections featured in 2013 Asian American Composers and Lyricists Concert at Signature Theatre, directed by Alan Muraoka
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2014 - 2015 Portsmouth University Dramaturgy Project.
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2015 Cap 21 Writer's Residency
THE PUZZLING DISAPPEARANCE OF YINXING VILLA
(with story and additional words by Yan Li)
An original, one-act, Chinese, ghost story employing Kuaiban and shadow play.
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Commissioned by Leviathan Lab for an evening of Asian ghost stories, 2014.
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Directed by BD Wong, curated by Robert Lee
ENJOY THE RIDE
Two friends escape their retirement home into elaborate travel fantasies.
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Commissioned by Prospect Theatre Company for the 2014 Musical Theatre Lab.
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Presented Barrington Stage Company in 2015
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Presented by National Asian Artists Project 2016 Discover: New Musicals
Photo credit: Dev Bondarin; Left to right: Barry Shafrin, Anthony Willis Jr., Karl Joseph Co, Laura Beth Wells, David Perlman, Diane Phelan, Greg Horton, Victoria Huston-Elem
BONE WARS
Exploring the 1870s fossil feud between Edward Drinker Cope and Charles Othniel Marsh. A story of cowboys and dinosaurs set in the silhouettes of ancient shadow puppets, the sounds of the frontier, and the limits of the imagination of the gigantic.
Photo Credit: Eric Bondoc