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 is a story of family and forgiveness, and whether the twain shall meet. A young man defies his conservative parents by joining an Olympic bound gymnastics team, instead of following the family business. Injured during a meet and paralyzed from the waist down, his parents turn their backs on him for the last time, telling him his disobedience got him what he deserved. Years later when he becomes a world-renowned physical therapist specializing in spinal chord injuries, his most difficult challenge comes when he’s forced to make amends and treat someone who needs him desperately: his newly injured mother.
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?" is 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?
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.
If
you are interest in reading one of my scripts please contact:
Mary Harden at Harden Curtis Associates (212) 977-8502
or e-mail her at maryharden@hardencurtis.com.
