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The Kimono Project
Full-length play
3F, 2M
The Kimono Project excerpt

At a swanky dinner party at his island home Dennis Teague, a coal executive, plans to enlist the help of another coal company exec in his fight to reverse global warming not by reducing emissions, but by altering the Earth’s climate through a geoengineering venture, dubbed “The Kimono Project.” Unfortunately a few problems get in the way of his scheme: a cheating wife, an industrial spy, an insubordinate maid/undercover guerrilla filmmaker, and, looming above them all, a deadly volcano threatening to erupt.

Yellow Peril 3.0
Full-length play
5M, 1F
Yellow Peril 3.0 excerpt

Henry hearts the Black Panthers, Deb thinks college is way lame, and Ju Seok believes it’s 2194 and everyone’s living in the matrix. Together, they unleash Yellow Peril onto their university. But when Bobby, another Asian American student on campus, gets caught up in a violent confrontation with a frat, will their political campaign backfire?

Artifact
Full-length play
4 F, 1 M
Artifact excerpt

After her estranged sister’s death is splashed all over the tabloids, Naomi Park and her father continue on in a state of denial until a woman shows up at their door and proposes an exhibit of her sister’s paintings. As her father drifts deeper into an alcohol-fueled fantasy world, Naomi struggles to come to terms with the loss of her sister.

Next Paris
Full-Length Play
3 F, 3 M
Next Paris excerpt

Paula Lee tries to keep her family together and brave a fellow church member’s wedding after her father is arrested for soliciting sex in a public park.

Ein Berliner
One-Act Play
2 M
Ein Berliner excerpt

Chad, a faded track star, has used his looks to land a rich wife and a comfy Connecticut life. The night before moving with her to Germany, Chad’s feckless buddy, Jake, reappears to offer him one last shot at salvation.

Big Jimmy Bob’s Hot Lots
One-Act Play
1M, 1F

Watch in amazement as our national parks are auctioned off at Big Jimmy Bob’s Auction clearinghouse.

Regarding the Sloth
One-Act Play
2M

Montejo and Velez: two conquistadors in the Aztec Empire on a quest for gold and glory for their Holy Roman Emperor. The problem: does this quest involve work?

An Atomic Life
One-Act Play
2 F

A lesbian couple moves to small-town Nebraska and is greeted with a box of suspicious-looking chocolates.

Patricia Jang is a Brooklyn-based writer. Some of her plays include The Kimono Project, Yellow Peril 3.0, Regarding the Sloth, Artifact, An Atomic Life, Westward, Aboveboard, Counterspace, The Fix, and Next Paris. Her plays have been read or staged by Ma-Yi Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, New York University, Second Generation, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, Speaking Ring Theatre, Chicago Dramatists, Women’s Theatre Alliance, and Theatre Limina. Mood Indigo, Patricia’s first screenplay, won the Best Graduate Screenplay award at the Fusion Film Festival. She was awarded the New York Theatre Workshop Playwriting Fellowship, a Donahue Tremaine Residuary grant, the Harry Kondoleon Graduate Award in Playwriting and an Illinois Arts Council fellowship in playwriting and was a finalist for the Yale Drama Series Prize. She is a member of the Ma-Yi Writers’ Lab. MFA: New York University; BA: Smith College.