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Alvin Eng

ALVIN ENG

  

Nationality:    USA
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Alvin Eng's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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below is a list of Alvin Eng's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

        167 Tongues         Last Emperor Of Flushing, The         Last Hand Laundry In Chinatown, The         Mourning After, The         their Town         Three Trees



167 Tongues

Synopsis:
167 Tongues explores the emotional geography of Jackson Heights, the most culturally diverse neighborhood in the world. Intermittent street scenes weave together alongside continuous stories in this 37-character play. an Indian sweet shop vendor struggles to keep her store going and her suitors at bay, a Nepali woman and a Mexican man fall in love across a linguistic divide, an Irish ghost befriends an troubled ecuadorian girl and her Bangladeshi best friend, a Dominican manicurist wonders whether her Jewish Chinese boyfriend will propose before she is deported by the INS, and a Rwandan night nurse attempts to understand the 167 distinct languages spoken in the local emergency Room. This theatrical experience combines street scenes with continuous narratives, found sounds, and movement in an exploration of Jackson Heights, Queens, the most diverse neighborhood in the world.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
conceived And directed by Ari Laura Kreith. the piece is written by 11 writers: Jenny Lyn Bader, Meny Beriro, Alvin eng, Steven Fechter, Jennifer Gibbs, Les Hunter, Anna Kushner, Rehana Mirza, Jeffrey Solomon, Suzanne Sheptock, And Stefanie Zadravec.

1st Produced:
P.S. 69, 77-02 37th Ave, Jackson Heights (Queens), Ny    07 May 2010

Organisations:
Jackson Repertory Theatre

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  large cast

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Last Emperor Of Flushing, The

Synopsis:
memory monologue

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Genre:
Monologue Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Last Hand Laundry In Chinatown, The

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1st Produced:
La Mama    1996

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Genre:
Musical

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Mourning After, The

Synopsis:
Two years after the 9/11 attacks, Mimi Okamoto is returning home to her native Far Rockaway, Queens, for the first time in 15 years. She is lost on the subway-alone in a train car with Jackson, a young hip-hop kid, who fiercely guards his privacy. Both are feeling the suspicious shadows of a post-9/11 NYC and find surprising refuge in each other. the Mourning after was first written as a ten-minute play for the 24-hour a-Train Plays series on September 11, 2003. This is the first public reading of the expanded play.
- http://www.aatrevue.com

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1st Produced:
A-Train Plays    2003

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Music:
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their Town

Synopsis:
Inspired by Thornton Wilder's Our Town, alvin eng's their Town, depicts a man and his nemesis meeting in the afterlife as they struggle to find true redemption.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
part of Reflections: An evening of Short Plays

1st Produced:
Lion Theatre, Ny    2009

Organisations:
Resonance ensemble

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
short play

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Three Trees

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
West End Theater    23 Mar 2013

Organisations:
Pan Asian Repertory Theatre

1st Published:
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Music:
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