Plays:
THE NEW DEAL is a comic drama about a Chinese American woman at odds with her cultural identity and propensity towards being hyper-superstitious. Her life and luck change, though, when she travels to Hong Kong to uncover a family secret and save their New York City restaurant from demolition.
PAPER SON is the story of a young Chinese man who must learn to balance his American identity with his family’s immigrant journey. It’s 1952, and when he meets his match in an American-born-Chinese girl, romance and new questions about the name he lost in his secretly illegal immigration follow.
INTERNAL BLEEDING - loosely based on a true story about an Olympic bound gymnast who becomes estranged from his parents after an accident leaves him paralyzed.
ADVENTURES OF A FAUX DESIGNER HANDBAG is a comedy about three friends frantically trying to find a replacement for a priceless special edition handbag. They are catapulted through space and time from the maze of Chinatown, New York, to the Splendid China theme park in Orlando, Florida, where they try to find out if authenticity is really in the eye of the beholder.
"EVER SEE A FAT CHINESE?" - a 15-minute comedy. Lexy Lee has a sneaking suspicion that she's "large for her breed". She'll do anything for a major-league make-over. Or will she?
TANFORAN - a ten-minute play. A Caucasian woman married to a Japanese American man during World War II must reconcile the identity the U.S. government gives her with the only home she knows: her family.
PEACE PLAZA - a ten-minute play. A woman fears the cost of civil disobedience as she waits fo her daughter on the day Martin Luther King is shot.
DO THESE GENES MAKE ME LOOK FAT? - a ten-minute solo piece. A musing on the legacy of cravings
WELCOME TO TELEVISION - a comedy in one act. Behind the scenes at Perfect Pitch Productions, newcomer Sabrina Lee discovers if "reality" is all that it's cracked up to be.
SECONDARY IMPACT - a play with dance. A veteran Broadway dancer and an ex-pro football player inspire each other to face their career-ending injuries head on -- in a story of unlikely friendshipo, identity and reinvention.
Screenplays:
NO WAVE WITHOUT WIND (with Charles Randolph-Wright) - a feature length romance. Charlie Lee, a Chinese American funeral supplies salesman and Eunice Franklin, an African-American school teacher try to find their way past the "Colored" and "Whites Only"signs of South Carolina in 1954. How can change happen when the world around you stays the same?
DULLY FOR PRESIDENT is a political satire short about a U.S. President who must hide his childhood lobotomy from the public, or risk losing what’s left of his mind – not to mention his job.
JUMPING THE THIRD RAIL, a feature-length screenplay, is the story of three inner city teens; subway performers who are struggling to support their destitute families with their raw acrobatic skills. Getting no love at home, their lives are transformed by a bereft gymnastics coach who believes in them like no one else ever has. Together they forge a fearless team, healing their fractured lives and getting a head start on their wildest dreams: competing in the Olympics.
