In a Pho restaurant in Nowhere, California, Bo has a meeting with the Universe in search for his lost best friend, Trixie. Spanning multiverses where nuns rob the Smithsonian, cowboys search for the American dream, two high schoolers obsess over Vanessa Hudgens’ cringe, and two friends record a Wingstop mukbang and discuss a future that will never happen. A play on memorial grief, friendship, and…YOUR F*CKING MOM! AYYYYY!!!

Photos by Marcellus Louise

Photos by Dori Donadeo

In this world of play, things are lives, and lives are things. Factories, bombing, and gunfire fill the air with so much smoke that there are no stars in the sky — not even the sun — so no one can tell if it’s day or night, dawn or dusk. At the center of the land stands a tall clock tower, said to control the world’s time, its hands now fixed at 13 o’clock, granting an extra hour of labor. Everyone’s an alien, just as one can easily make you a god.

Photos by Joel Lee

Five would-be somebodies find themselves united in Hell, part of a trial run to solve Hell’s oncoming population problem. Faced with a poker match with the Devil’s right- turned dealer—the one and only Joan Crawford—these women must vie against each other for a spot in Heaven, all while contending sins, histories, sexual identity, and their own dispensability. Because winning is more than eternity—it is fame.

edinburgh fringe 2024

Photos by katie woo

the tank nyc 2023

photos by katie woo

nyu broke people's play festival 2022

photos by cindy xu

Articles & links

• 59E59 <E2E: The Gospel of Joan (Crawford)>

• Playbill <20 Shows to See at the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe>

• Happening Next <The Gospel of Joan (Crawford) (Developmental Reading) - BPPF Fall 2022>

Marie Skłodowska-Curie. Physicist. Pioneer. Parent.As she arrives from her native home in Poland to study at Sorbonne University in Paris, young Marie Skłodowska is certain she can make a name for herself and change the course of science. She discovers radium, a new chemical element, with her husband Pierre Curie, and she’s lauded with the Nobel Prize.But she is faced with an overwhelming moral dilemma. As Marie discovers the lifesaving potential of radium to cure cancer, factory workers handling the glowing substance are succumbing to the insidious grip of radium poisoning.As a woman with society against her, can she wrestle with both the potential and danger of her discovery – and what is she if radium’s dangers overshadow its possibilities?

Photos by danny kaan

Articles & links

• Charing Cross Theatre <Marie Curie>

• Playbill <marie curie musical english-language premiere officially opens in london june 7>

• Whatsonstage <English-language premiere of new Marie Curie musical to be staged in London this summer>

• Broadway World <English Language Premiere of MARIE CURIE Musical Comes to Charing Cross>

• London Box Office <Cast announced for English-language premiere of MARIE CURIE musical>

• London Theatre.co.uk <English-language premiere of new musical 'Marie Curie' heads to London>

• WestendTheatre.com <Marie Curie casting announced for the West End’s Charing Cross Theatre, Stars Alisa Davidson>

• Westend Best Friend <English language premiere of major new musical MARIE CURIE announced>

• British Theatre Guide <Marie Curie>

• Stageberry <New musical Marie Curie to make English language premiere in London>

On the shore of some distant land, the lovers Pathos and Logos (Passion and Logic), once joined, have been torn apart and given physical form. While Logos, spends his days tinkering with a flawed machine that he believes to be the solution to restoring them to their original state, Pathos, dismayed by loneliness, tries desperately to build a life in the present instead of chasing after the past.

Photos by Angel J. Rivas

stage design

The invented word "Borned" suggests that every being enters existence without consent, yet must spend a lifetime searching for purpose and belonging within it.The story ends as Willow's life fades, and Belize softly asks, "Ma? What is your name?" In a child's birth, a mother can never cease being a mother, just as a child can never stop being a child. A child rarely calls their mother by name, for that is who she is: mother, origin, god. The play lingers on this inevitability, exploring how it gives rise to a love that is at once sorrowful, reckless, unconventional, and unending.We, too, are all "borned." Thrust into a world without our choosing, bound to love, to lose, and to long for understanding before the night takes us as well.

photos by Liv Greenfield & Ava Iwano

All asian arts alliance

Photos by Joel Lee & ahreumbi Rew

broke people play festival

Photos by ava iwano & ahreumbi rew

Photos by addison smith

Photos by ava iwano

Emily, who has a cold relationship with her dad, decides to run away. However, little on her journey, she is divided, deciding whether to run away or return home and live with her father.original film provided upon request

Cinematography by Dabin Choi

At the end of the world, Haneul spends entirely of her days seeking hints of the 'Gaps,' a term she invented to direct at the openings in the sky which let in rays of light. However, with the encounter with Gowri, another one still left alive, Haneul is challenged to let go of her obsession with 'Gaps' and find the true meaning behind her life.original film provided upon request

Cinematography by Angela Ananya Ramkumar

2026

Search For What I Left
The Tank (New York)
August 2026 [coming soon]Oceanic Memory
nyu's Experimental Theater Wing (New York)
May 2026Undying Weather
nyu's Playwrights Horizons Theater School (New York)
April 2025When the tide turns
NYU Tisch, NYU’s broke people play festival (New York)
April 2025

2025

things that burn things
nyu's Playwrights Horizons Theater School (New York)
November 2025to be borned
The Clemente, NYU’s broke people play festival (New York)
November 2025Devil of music
Goldberg Theater, NYU's all asian arts alliance (New York)
October 2025Devil of music
NYU Tisch, NYU’s broke people play festival (New York)
October 2025on the blue ridge parkway
NYU Tisch, NYU’s broke people play festival (New York)
May 2025the multiverse of friendship
nyu's Playwrights Horizons Theater School (New York)
April 2025

2024

The Gospel of Joan (Crawford)
The space UK (Edinburgh Fringe 2024)
August 2024Marie Curie
Charing Cross Theatre (London)
June-July 2024The Gospel of Joan Crawford
59E59 (New York)
July 2024

2023

The Gospel of Joan (Crawford)
The Tank (New York)
June 2023Pathos & Logos
Goldberg Theater, NYU’s broke people play festival (New York)
May 2023

2022

The Gospel of Joan (Crawford)
Goldberg Theater, NYU’s broke people play festival (New York)
December 2022