The Asian American Playwright Collective

AAPC had the pleasure of producing Ammo by Brandon Zang, while our member Michael Lin had his play Landlord Special produced by Boston Theater Company!

AAPC playwrights Hortense Gerardo, Greg Lam, and Jamie Lin are among the playwrights featured in Theatre@First's festival of one-act plays by local playwrights.

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AAPC members' featured plays:

• The Engagement by Hortense Gerardo

• The Santa Thing by Greg Lam

• Closing Doors by Jamie Lin

For more information, see here.

Performed at Spingold Laurie Theater by Brandeis Students:
Anika Hahn, Noah Leikind, Christopher Li, Skye Lu, Yijia Yu, Phoenix Yuan
 

Featuring Works By AAPC Members:

• From Dim Sum In Harvard Square, #6: When Black Cats Die by Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro

• Confessions by Christina R Chan

• Bee, Plus One by Jamie Lin

• The Hunchback Of Boston Common by Michael Lin

• Secret Menu by Vivian Liu-Somers

• "A British Fourth Of July" by George S. Yip

Two AAPC members (Christina R. Chan & Hortense Gerardo) are included in Fresh Ink's 8th Annual Mad Dash 24-hour play festival, presented at Lyric Stage on July 22!​

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More info here.

Five AAPC members are included in this year's Boston Theatre Marathon at Boston Playwrights' Theatre on May 1, 2022!

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• Two Sides of the Same Coin - Michelle M. Aguillon

• Golp - Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro

• Confessions - Christina R Chan

• A Song of Morning - Hortense Gerardo

• Playing Chopsticks - Michael Lin

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More info here.

The Asian-American Playwright Collective (AAPC), in collaboration with the The Umbrella Stage Company, hosted Ginger Klee MS, LMFT, LPCC, who ledan AAPI Self-Care Workshop on Friday, May 28, 2021.​

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As part of AAPI Heritage Month, this workshop will address the rise of anti-Asian racism and violence, and will focus on mental health and self-care for members of the extended AAPI artist community of Greater Boston. The workshop is FREE and will be moderated by Michelle Aguillon (AAPC), Hortense Gerardo (AAPC), Stewart Ikeda (Umbrella), and Sarah Shin (Asian American Theatre Artists of Boston - AATAB).

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This project is made possible in part by a LAB Grant to AAPC from The Boston Foundation.

To ensure a safe space this event will not be recorded and is reserved for AAPI only. We appreciate your understanding.

The eight short works to be presented in this evening of staged readings were written by Boston-based playwrights of the Asian American Playwright Collective (AAPC)

Directed by Michelle Aguillon

Hortense Gerardo "Piercing"
Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro "In The Heartland"
Michael Lin "Playing Chopsticks":
Takeo Rivera "Tamales":
Quentin Ngyuen-duy "Amputees"
Greg Lam "Cross Over Fiction"
Christina R Chan "Stir Frying Success"
Mariko Kanto "Hibakusha":

The event is free but space is limited so please reserve a ticket through Eventbrite.

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Video can be found here.

AAPC Member Greg Lam debuts his sci-fi voyage play at the Pao Arts Center presented by Company One.

For two nights at the Cambridge Foundry, AAPC presented a night of 8 original short plays for PlayFest 7! Program here.

AAPC Members Hortense Gerardo, Michael Lin, Vivian Liu-Somers, and Michelle M. Aguillon were playwrights in Fresh Ink's annual 24 hour play challenge, the Mad Dash.​

Three one act plays by AAPC members presented by the Burlington Players.

Chagrin Valley by Hortense Gerardo
Directed by Michelle Aguillon
Featuring Steve Bermundo, Karla Goo Lang and Naomi Ibasitas

​Don't Fence Me In by Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro
Directed by Michelle Aguillon
Featuring Violet Villanueva, Mordecai SJ Choi, and Chantha Luk

​Secret Asian Man by Dev Luthra
Directed by Vincent Siders
Featuring Dev Luthra

Three AAPC members are included in this year's Boston Theatre Marathon at Boston Playwrights' Theatre on May 7, 2023!

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• Letting Go - Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro

• The Hour Between Dog and Wolf - Hortense Gerardo

• Bee, Plus One - Jamie Lin

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More info here.

We are thrilled to share with you eight new ten minute plays live and for free at Starlight Square in Central Square, Cambridge, MA one weekend only, thanks to funding from a Live Arts Boston (LAB) 2020 Grant from the Boston Foundation. This program is also supported in part by a grant from the Falmouth Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.

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​Featuring plays by Michelle H. Aguillon, Christina R. Chan, Hortense Gerardo, Greg Lam, Michael Lin, Nico Pang, Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro. Also Vivian Liu-Somers in collaboration with Sebastien Garbe, Kim Muroya, and Deborah Rosencrans.

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Directed by Michelle H. Aguillon

Featuring Karen Dervin, Emily Eldrige-Ingram, Liza Fermin Granada, Gabrielle Hatcher, Naomi Ibasitas, Karla Lang, Jupiter Le, Jeff Lee, Vivian Liu-Somers, and Jeomil Tovar.

The Asian American Playwright Collective (AAPC) hosted a conversation between playwright A. Rey Pamatmat and artists of color.

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A. Rey Pamatmat’s most recent work is part of a collaborative libretto for Desert In, premiering in 2021 at the Boston Lyric Opera/operabox.tv. His newest play is Safe, Three Queer Plays, which follows the seismic changes in Queer America through a gay man of color’s life. Plays include after all the terrible things I do (Milwaukee Rep, Huntington, AboutFace), Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them (Humana Festival, Company One), House Rules (Ma-Yi), Thunder Above, Deeps Below (Second Generation), and DEVIANT. Short works include Tilda Swinton Betrayed Us (Keen Company), This Is How It Ends (59E59), and Gratuitous Nudity… Bad Broccoli (Actors Theatre of Louisville). For television, he wrote on NOS4A2 and is developing a pilot with AMC. Rey’s plays have been translated into Spanish and Russian and performed in Moscow, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. They are published by Samuel French and Playscripts. Rey is a member of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab and was a Hodder, PoNY, and Princess Grace Fellow.

A reading of 8 short plays that were written by Boston-based playwrights of the Asian American Playwright Collective (AAPC): Christina R Chan, Hortense Gerardo, Mariko Kanto, Greg Lam, Michael Lin, Quentin Nguyen-duy, Audrey Pillsbury and Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro.

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Directed by Michelle Aguillon

Featuring: Alexander Holden, Kara Chu Nelson, Jude Torres, Vivian Liu-Somers, Dustin Teuber and Quang Milligan

Made possible by a LAB Grant from the Boston Foundation.

The first staged reading of the AAPC New Play Series featured GOLP, about a scientist who created an android to help care for her family, with unexpected results.

Featuring plays:

• Buried Alive by Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro

• Troublemaker by Christina R. Chan

• Chagrin Valley by Hortense Gerardo

• Happy Daughter by Greg Lam

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Ensemble Cast: Steve Bermundo, Vivian Liu-Somers, Mandy Eckhoff, Karla Goo Lang, Jenine Jacinto, Dev Luthra, Mordecai S. J. Choi, Jamie Lin, Mavis Joy Manaloto.

Directing is Michelle M. Aguillon, Dev Luthra, and Alison Yueming Qu.

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Presented at Mosesian Center for the Arts. SAAthFest | Facebook event

Four AAPC Members had their work featured in the 2024 Boston Theatre Marathon!

• Luz and Urduja by Michelle M. Aguillon (Produced by CHUANG Stage)

• A Hard Reset by Hortense Gerardo (Produced by Off-Kendrik)

• Secret Menu by Vivian Liu-Somers (Produced by Asian American Playwright Collective)

• Tryst by Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro (Produced by Playwrights Platform)

More info here.

For two nights on September 8 & 9, 2023, AAPC presented a night of original short plays around communication & code switching for PlayFest 6! Program here.

Thank you to Starlight Square Theatre for hosting us again!

We are thrilled to share with you a selection of nine new, ten-minute plays live and for free at Starlight Square in Central Square, Cambridge, MA one weekend only. This program is supported in part by funding from Starlight Square, a 2022 Summer Festival Grant from Mass Cultural Council (a state agency), and CHUANG Stage.

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Join us on Friday, July 22 and Saturday July 23 at 7pm EST to see new work by exciting
voices from the Asian American and Pacific Islander playwright community in Boston!

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Program here.

Video here.

The 4th Annual AAPC Playfest highlights the work of Boston-based Asian American and Asian Pacific Islander playwrights, actors and directors.​

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We are thrilled to share with you our experiments in creative storytelling using the digital platform ZOOM, thanks to funding from a Live Arts Boston (LAB) 2020 Grant from the Boston Foundation.

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This program is also supported in part by a grant from the Falmouth Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.

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Join us on Friday, August 13th at 7 PM EST to see new work by exciting voices from the Asian American and Pacific Islander playwright community in Boston!

The Asian American Playwright Collective is excited to present its PlayFestival of Food Plays on Thursday, August 20, 2020 at 7:00 pm EDT. The festival is made possible by funding from the Bob Jolly Trust and The Boston Foundation.

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The PlayFestival highlights Boston-area Asian American and Asian Pacific Islander playwrights, actors, directors, and other theater artists. Since we cannot gather in Woods Hole for our annual play reading, we are taking the program online. Join us for original works by Boston-area playwrights on this fascinating new medium.

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Whether characters are preparing food for family or friends, having heated conversations over a meal, learning about unusual ingredients, or trying to order their favorite foods at a local dim sum place, the plays all explore how we use food to navigate, nourish, and sometimes negate our relationships.

The plays will be followed by a Q&A with the playwrights and director, moderated by Susan Chinsen, Community Engagement Producer, ArtsEmerson & Artistic Director, Boston Asian American Film Festival (BAAFF).

This is a staged reading of a new tragic comic play about reinventing the Self through selfies and social media.

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Featuring: Loan Kieu Nguyen, Nathaniel Punches, August Padua, Liza Granada, Michael Pisano, Emilia Cappelli.

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Directed by Jan Pension with Musical Stylings by George Luton.

The event is free but space is limited so please reserve a ticket through Eventbrite.

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Made possible by a generous grant from The Bob Jolly Charitable Trust

AAPC playwrights Rosanna Alfaro, Hortense Gerardo, and Greg Lam were among the playwrights participating in this event at Boston Playwrights Theatre.