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Alice Tuan

ALICE TUAN

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Abrams Artists Agency  

Alice Tuan is featured on the cover of the October 2002 issue of American Theater as one of seven playwrights "headed for their break-out season." the magazine featured her again in November 2002, with an essay discussing the state of the Arts in the U.S. She was recently awarded the prestigious Colbert Award for ExcEllence as an emerging Theatre artist. Tuan's work has been produced at the Mark Taper Forum, the McCarter Theatre, Berkley Repertory Theatre, and East West Players. Tuan's one-act play Some Asians was a winner at the Perishable Theater Fifth Annual Women's Playwrighting Festival in 1997. She was a 1999 recipient of a NEA/Theatre Communications Group Playwright Residency Grant at East West Players, as well as a resident playwright at Los Angeles Theatre Center in 1999.
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         (ala) Asians in los Angeles         4 Days In Red Gulch         Ajax (por nobody)         Bai Li Wong Liebling         Batch: An American Bachelor/ette Party         Coastline         Coco Puffs         Don't [Expletive] With My Dotted Eye         F.E.T.C.H.         Game On         Heaven and Hell (On Earth): A Divine Comedy         Hit         Iconana         iggy woo         Ikebana         Last Of the Suns         New Culture For A New Country         Roaring Circle, The         Roaring Girle         Some Asians

(ala) Asians in los Angeles

Synopsis:
It's a Mall, it's the Hollywood Sign, it's an alien abduction. . .it's a freeway, it's a revolution. . .this ain't no disco. . .this is A.L.A.

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written by Daniel Cariaga, Ray Cervantez, Susan High, Emmie Hsu, Nic Cha Kim, Annette Lee, Mari Muki, Ken Narasaki, Henrietta Chico Nofre, Judy Soo Hoo; curated And Assembled by Alice Tuan

1st Produced:
Staged Reading The Japanese American National Museum    1999

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Fantasy / Comedy 2-act play

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4 Days In Red Gulch

Synopsis:
About the stretch of time between June 30, 1919, the first day of Prohibition, and Oct. 19, 1929, when the stock market crashed
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Mark Taper    2002

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Ajax (por nobody)

Synopsis:
Porn star Alma's porn star husband Dick Odyssey is away and she is bored. She invites three other porn stars over for the night of fun - Annette, Jesse and Alexander - who is known as the great

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Melbourne Fringe    -

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Contained in: "Play - A Journal Of Plays" issue two   -

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Bai Li Wong Liebling

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A subversive look at a Chinese adoptee who returns to her native village as a young woman.
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1st Produced:
Mccarter Theatre    2002

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Batch: An American Bachelor/ette Party

Synopsis:
Your friend is getting married. Wants to say goodbye to single life forever. You throw a party. A real bash. Does the sky break open? Do you summon the divine? Change? Or just get drunk? Speak now, friends, or forever hold your peace. This collaboration between New Paradise Laboratories and playwright Alice Tuan is the second in NPL's series examining rites of passage.

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created by Alice Tuan, Whit MacLaughlin And New Paradise Laboratories

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Coastline

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Coco Puffs

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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One Act

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Don't [Expletive] With My Dotted Eye

Synopsis:
An abstract piece about the meaning of punk rock.
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1st Produced:
Dad's Garage    2004

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F.E.T.C.H.

Synopsis:
In this "small installment of Virtual Hypertext theater," playwright Alice Tuan has crafted a wild theatrical event that includes a pole, a bucket and an endless series of possibilities. What will happen next? In this new interactive universe, you get to decide.

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Technology Project

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Game On

Game On
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written by Zakiyyah Alexander, Jon Spurney, Alice Tuan, Daryl Watson, Marisa Wegrzyn, Ken Weitzman. Humana Festival 2008: the Complete Plays brings together All eleven scripts from the 2008 Humana Festival of New American Plays, the 32nd Annual cycle of world premiere productions staged At Actors theatre of Louisville. the seven full-length plays And four ten-minute plays represent An exceptional Array of work by some of the most exciting new voices in American theatre

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Playscripts, Inc - New York   978-0970904683

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Heaven and Hell (On Earth): A Divine Comedy

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In this comic anthology - a collection of scenes and monologues - an array of devilishly talented playwrights put a contemporary spin on a fascinating eternal obsession. Grappling with their own diverse experiences of vice and virtue, salvation and damnation, characters from the twentysomething generation interpret their world with amusing revelations and surprising insights

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written by Robert Alexander, Jenny Lyn Bader, Elizabeth Dewberry, Deborah Lynn Frockt, Rebecca Gilman, Keith Glover, Hilly Hicks, Jr., Karen Hines, Michael Kassin, Melanie Marnich, Jane Martin, William Mastrosimone, Guillermo Reyes, Sarah Schulman, Richar

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Hit

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The Public    2000

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Iconana

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iggy woo

Synopsis:
Giving up smoking and falling in love all at the same time

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1st Produced:
New Play Boot Camp    2005

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Playwrights Rep

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Ikebana

Synopsis:
Hidden things, secrets and rearranging reality to spare loved ones pain are the themes of this work. Each scene is based on an ikebana flower arrangement: the characters are all flowers of sorts being arranged by God's (or someone else's) hands. Thus, most of the action concerns the "blooming" and "wilting" of family relations and character tensions.
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Last Of the Suns

Last Of the Suns
Combining American and Chinese storytelling techniques to devise a highly theatrical depiction of life that bridges the gaps existing between the two cultures and creates something new in the process. the play is about a young woman, a former skating star with hopes for Olympic glory, who deserts her parents and brother, leaving them in near-poverty and shattering their hopes for the fame and acclaim few countries other than the United States afford. While the story has much to do with obligation and youthful rebellion, what sets the story apart is that it's seen through the eyes of the woman's 100 year-old grandfather.
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-    1995

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

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New Culture For A New Country

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East West: Word Up!    1999

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Roaring Circle, The

Synopsis:
the future. theatre has been banned and the days of the week are sponsored by big corporations. Moll Cutpurse plans a theatrical event

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Based on "the Roaring Girl" by Thomas Middleton And Thomas Dekker

1st Produced:
The Foundry Theater, New York    2004

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Roaring Girle

Synopsis:
An adaptation of Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker's 1611 work, the Roaring Girle, about a woman of notorious exploits who keeps butting heads with the societal powers that be.
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Foundy    2002

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Some Asians

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