Rain City Projects

Tom and Sara are married. So are James and Mary. But Sara and James have been having an affair, and Tom knows about it. In "The Shark," these four characters are put at a dinner table with plenty of wine to allow all their dirty secrets and hidden desires to come out.

Karl, a famous writer, is dying, and he invites his estranged son to film his final 'death festival'.

Mandi must reconcile the burial wishes of her dead, identical twin sister.

Richard escaped to New York from a life of quiet desperation teaching junior high history in Baltimore. Now he subsidizes his alcoholic flirtation with oblivion by temping at a Madison Avenue advertising conglomerate. But once his boss Greg finally convinces him to “go permanent”, all corporate hell breaks loose. What do an obsessive-compulsive corporate comptroller, an ex-piano prodigy, a poetess-bartender and a burnt-out schoolteacher have in common? Well, for one they’re all mates on the Good Ship Manhattan, and as the action builds through the summer of 2001, whether they sense it or not, they’re sailing into some of the roughest seas this beaten old boat has ever seen.

Plucked from the audience, three contestants live and die their way through a myriad of American incarnations as they compete for the ultimate prize, perfect enlightenment. The entire history of United States becomes their playing field, from Jamestown to the World Trade Center attack and beyond, as they struggle towards their individual goals. In between lives, the contestants visit the bardo realms, wacky worlds between death and rebirth where Stonewall Jackson and Harriet Tubman are husband and wife; and people reincarnate as corporations. Even when things seem like they couldn’t get weirder, they do, as the contestants start to reincarnate as each other and the understanding begins to dawn that enlightenment is now here and nowhere; a trillion light-years and just a blink away.

Stage adapation of John Gardner's outrageous novella retelling the Beowulf epic from the monster's existentialist point-of-view.

TUESDAY is the story of a day in the life of Audie McCall; no ordinary thing, since every day in Audie’s life is, in a way, a life in itself. Audie suffers from an extremely rare form of Korsakoff’s Syndrome, a kind of amnesia that causes him to forget everything he knows about himself every time he falls asleep. So this Tuesday morning, just like every morning, he must be painstakingly re-taught every detail of his existence. Through the course of the day, using ruthless psychodrama and insidious metaphysics, Audie’s doctors lay bare the events that brought him to the fateful night he lost his life story and the humanity the rest of us take for granted.

A dying playwright writes the first act of a ten-minute play hoping a computer will finish it. With its crew of sub-atomic crew particles, the New You Boat sets sail through a sea of quantum uncertainty on its last mission of kill or be killed versus live and let live.

Two lovers (are they lovers?) hash out their relationship in the context of having only nine and a half minutes to live.

Doin' It Again, is the 8th Episode in the original comedic soap known as Sex in Seattle. Join Shari, Tess, Jenna and Elizabeth, four contemporary Asian American women, on a fun-filled adventure with fate, as they journey back to the past, and explore what might have been on a delightful date with destiny. Written by Kathy Hsieh; created by Kathy Hsieh and Serin Ngai for SIS Productions.