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2023 INK’D Festival of New Plays

Our Fellows present their works in progress

Our 2022-23 Writing Fellows have been hard at work all season, and they can’t wait to present their work! Check out the full lineup below.

 
 
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Andrea Ambam’s
Fragile State

Directed by Chika Ike

For Manny, being a first-gen, gen-z, radical Black organizer in a world where every day brings “unprecedented times” was already enough on her plate. So when Manny’s Grandma arrives, making her first visit to America from Cameroon in over 15 years, the shocking family secrets, unspoken cultural histories, and whisperings of war she brings along with her completely turn Manny’s sense of self inside out — all in the midst of Manny's largest organizing feat yet. In this afro-surrealist coming-of-age fable, generations collide and diasporas dance as Manny must reckon with where she comes from to make peace with who she is.

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Jesse Jae Hoon’s
Somebody is Looking Back At Me

Directed by Miranda Cornell

Bestselling Asian American author Olivia returns to the Chinatown she wrote about, but the only thing that feels welcoming in the rapidly gentrifying neighborhood is a group of successful old college classmates who have recently moved in and are suddenly very excited to hang out with her. Olivia believes she has finally found her community — but the more she learns about her new friends’ role in transforming the area, the more she feels like she has to choose between the lifestyle her career has afforded her and the values she preaches in her writing.

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Alyssa Haddad-Chin’s
The Ancestry Dot Com Play

Directed by Kate Moore Heaney

Samia never knew her father, and her secretive Lebanese mother is more interested in watching Wheel of Fortune than providing answers. While she’s proud of her Arab American heritage, Samia wishes she knew more about her family history — until her friend does her DNA test without her consent, making Samia confront just how much knowledge about her ancestry she can handle.

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Alex Lin’s
LASTHUNTER

Directed by Cara Hinh

When NASA interns Reggie Nielson and Elisa Yang discover that their employer’s greatest aerospace hero was a former Nazi, the unlikely pair embark on a time-traveling multiverse adventure to do one thing and one thing only: kill the motherf*cker. A tale of radical revenge, LASTHUNTER investigates the fragility of nationalism, what makes a person good, and the grayness of morality when living within the bounds of rigid systems.

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