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Sung Rno

SUNG RNO

  
Nationality:    USA
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His work has been produced by East West Players, Thick Description, Asian American Theater Company, North West Asian American Theater, San Diego Asian American Rep, Dance Theater Workshop, Immigrants' Theater Project, Seoul International Theater Festival, Ma-Yi Theatre Company, and the New York International Fringe Festival. Honors include a 2003-2004 NEA/TCG Playwriting Fellowship, the 2003 Whitfield-Cook Prize, a New York Fringe Festival ExcEllence in Overall Production Award (for YI SANG COUNTS TO THIRTEEN, directed by the author); a Van Lier/New Dramatists playwriting fellowship; a Van Lier/New York Theater Workshop playwriting fellowship; first prize in the Seattle Multicultural Playwrights' Festival; commissions from the Mark Taper Forum, the Joseph Papp Public Theater and Ma-Yi Theater; an artistic residency at Mabou Mines; and honorable mention in the 2001 Bay Area Playwrights Festival. His plays and poetry are published in the anthologies But Still, Like Air, I'll Rise (Temple Press); Premonitions (Kaya Press); the NuyorAsian anthology (AAWW); and Echoes Upon Echoes (AAWW). He received a BA from Harvard and an MFA from Brown. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild and New Dramatists. He lives in New York city
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         Behind the Masq         Cleveland Raining         Drizzle         Galois         Gravity Falls From Trees         Happy         In A Small Island Village         Infinitude         Konishiki, Mon Amour         Masks         New World or the Columbus Variations         Nuthin         Principia         Project: Balangiga         Trajectory of a Heart, Fractured, The         wAve         Weather         Yi Sang Counts To Thirteen

Behind the Masq

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Two gangs. One starts using the slang of the other gang. The other gang does the same to them

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Drama

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Cleveland Raining

Cleveland Raining
A Korean-American brother and sister living in the Ohio countryside: the sister is a medical student who drives the interstate searching for their father; the brother has dreams of a flood and begins building an ark out of a Volkswagen bug. A lonely female motorcyclist and an oddball mechanic enter their lives, while the brother and sister try to piece together the fabric of their frayed family history. While the brother builds an engine that runs off emotional loss, the sister finally uncovers the fragile truth of her family, something both revelatory and sad.
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1st Produced:
East West Players, La    1994

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Contained in: "Be Still Like Air I'll Rise - New Asian American Plays   978-1566395373

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Drizzle

Synopsis:
A trilogy of one-acts based on short stories by Korean fiction writer Hwang Sun Won. Each play employs spare language, with jagged situations and conflicting ambivalent emotions. "Masks" portrays a world where the rules dictate that two friends find themselves as enemies during a war. "In a Small Island Village" involves a female journalist who finds that language fails her in the harsh world of a remote fishing village in Korea. "Drizzle" is about two real estate men having a coffee break that turns into a discussion about business, war, and the ambivalence of doing the right thing.
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Based on A short story by Hwang Sun Won

1st Produced:
Nwaat    1994

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Galois

Synopsis:
The life of Evariste Galios. A teenage prodigy who discovered a branch of mathematics. He died in his twenties in a duel over a woman

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Rights for this title only - Bret Adams. Music by Aaron Jones; lyrics Aaron Jones; Sung Rno; book Sung Rno

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Gravity Falls From Trees

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IsabElla goes to the hospital because she is abnormally cold. Soon she finds herself on a cloud with Isaac Newton and a guilt-ridden pilot. All of them are in search of a Newton's "Fourth" Law, one that fuses emotion and motion. IsabElla finds that the shared event in their lives was the tragic downing of Korean Air 007, an unfortunate political consequence of the Cold War. While IsabElla doesn't necessarily make better sense of the event, she eventually breaks through the emotional freeze that she's been suffering through, and finds a way to lighten the gravity of history.
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1st Produced:
Asian American Theatre Company, San Francisco, California    1997

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Happy

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Genre:
Black comedy

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In A Small Island Village

Synopsis:
A female journalist is covering a story at a remote fishing village finds she cannot understand what people are saying.

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Based on A short story by Hwang Sun Won

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Infinitude

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An ensemble comedy set in 1999 as a group of friends say goodbye to their 20s and the 20th century. the play revolves around the subjective world of Filo, who has an interesting relationship with truth and the objective world, as well as with his childhood friend Samantha (Sam). His life is a bit of a random walk, dealing with the dangers of digital video, the allure of the internet, and the frustrations of unrequited theater, leading to a sense of closure as tenuous as the beginning of the new millennium.
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1st Produced:
Lcc Productions    2003

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LCC Productions

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Konishiki, Mon Amour

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New York Shakespeare Festival    1993

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Masks

Synopsis:
Two friends find they are on opposite sides in a war

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Based on A short story by Hwang Sun Won

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New World or the Columbus Variations

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Nuthin

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A play about nothing

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Principia

Synopsis:
A play about the publish or perish world of scientific research. Newton Park finds that he's been accused of falsifying data. the problem is, he's not sure himself whether or not he's innocent. As his case becomes ever more muddied, so do his relationships with his former girlfriend (now collaborator), his best friend, and his advisor. When his neatly defined world spirals out of control, he actually finds that he learns more about truth than what he's ever learned in his own research.
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New York Theatre Festival    -

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Project: Balangiga

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the play is a documentary-style inquiry into the ongoing debate surrounding the proposed repatriation of the church bells taken by American soldiers from the town of Balangiga during the Philippine American War. the excerpted scene imagines a virtual town meeting between the residents of Balangiga and Cheyenne, Wyoming, where the bells are presently installed.
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written by Ralph Pena And Sung Rno

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Ma-Yi    2008

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Trajectory of a Heart, Fractured, The

Synopsis:
Orville thought he was in love with Joanne, and now he's wondering why he's on a plane with Yumi, who is beginning to wonder also. Orville just wishes he could fly. And Joanne just wishes. A meditation on gravity's emotion.
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1st Produced:
Milagro Theater, NY    2008

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wAve

wAve
Sung Rno has called one of her leading characters M and given her a husband called Jason and anyone who knows the legend of Medea will recognize elements of that story here, centrally that it is about a woman transplanted to a foreign culture and increasingly alienated from her male partner who finds it easier to integrate. This M is a Korean transplanted to the United States. She doesn't have the magic powers of her the original Colchian Princess and her motivation seems less Medea's sexual passion for a foreign adventurer than a wish to escape her family for a dream of life in America and Jason, though a stranger, seems also to be Korean.
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Ma-Yi    1999

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in Version 3.0: Contemporary Asian American Plays, Theatre Communications Group (2 Aug 2011)   978-1559363631

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Weather

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Yi Sang Counts To Thirteen

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Three characters: Red, Green, and Blue are involved in a love triangle that intermingles poetic scenes, a spoof on detective noir involving limbs as characters, and erotic rituals involving Diet Coke. Blue must choose between his friendship with Red and his love for Green; but finds that he gets neither in the end. His only solace is the words and images that erupt in his feverish mind, the joy of creation coupled with the sense that the end is fast approaching
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Seoul International Theater Festival    2000

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