New Eyes Festival

This series of staged readings of new works from Asian American playwrights is an artistic incubator for thoughts and ideas looking to be born onto the stage. For the 2022 festival, our playwrights are our Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Playwright-in-Residence Saymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay, Katie Ka Vang and composer Melissa Li, and Keiko Green, who was one of our inaugural Mu Tang Clan members this past year.  

Their stories take us to Laos during a zombie apocalypse, reflect our everyday lives and its modern heartbreaks, and bring us back to our awkward high school days where we had to learn how to find our own power—and maybe save the world while doing it. (Was that not your high school experience?) Each script highlights different parts of humanity, and we are thrilled to be able part of these scripts’ development journey.

• Saturday, Apr 9, at 4 p.m. CT - Kung Fu Zombies Vs. Shaman Warrior by Saymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay
• Saturday, Apr 10, at 7:30 p.m. CT - Again by Katie Ka Vang and composed by Melissa Li
• Sunday, Apr 11, at 5 p.m. CT - Exotic Deadly: or the MSG Play by Keiko Green.

For more information, go to our website at theatermu.org. While attendance is free, we recommend you RSVP to reserve your seat.