A reading of the 2025 Stavis Award winning play
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by Alex Lin
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directed by Chay Yew
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Friday, January 17 - 2 pm EST
 Alex Lin(Playwright)
SYNOPSIS: Chinese Republicans When high-flying finance it girl Katie Liu loses out on the promotion of a lifetime to a nepo-baby coworker, she embarks on a treacherous endeavor to make a worker's union out of her Republican work aunties. Welcome to the world of Chinese Republicans, where the best bags are Birkins, the best shoes are Prada, and the best president is Reagan.
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Director, Chay Yew
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS |
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aLEX LIN (Playwright)
Alex Lin calls herself “just a girl from Jersey.” Her plays have been developed at Roundabout, Second Stage, NYTW, MTC, Rattlestick, the O'Neill, South Coast Rep, New Harmony, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Two River, Playwrights Realm, Central Square Theatre, Amphibian Stage, Theater Mu, and Cape Cod Theater Project. As an actor, she has performed at Actors Theatre of Louisville, HVSF, Ma-Yi, Ojai Playwrights Conference, New Victory, Fault Line, Ensemble Studio Theater, Jewish Plays Project, and Commonwealth Shakespeare. Guest lectures at CMU, Rutgers, and Union College. Susan Smith Blackburn Prize finalist and Weissberger Award nominee. Juilliard. cHAY YEW (DIRECTOR)
Director Chay Yew’s New York credits include the Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, New York Theatre Workshop, Signature Theatre, New York City Center Encores! Flea, Playwrights Realm, Audible Theatre, Rattlestick, Ensemble Studio Theatre, National Asian American Theatre, and Ma Yi Theatre Company. His regional credits include the Goodman Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, American Conservatory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theater, Arena Stage, La Jolla Playhouse, Alley Theatre, South Coast Rep, Old Globe, Center Theatre Group, Hartford Stage, Denver Center Theater, Huntington Theatre, Seattle Rep, Kennedy Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Victory Gardens, PlayMakers Rep, Empty Space, Portland Center Stage, East West Players and Singapore Repertory Theatre. His opera credits include the New York premiere of An American Soldier (Perelman), and world premieres of Ainadamar (co-production with Tanglewood and LA Philharmonic) and Rage D’Amors (Tanglewood). He is a recipient of the OBIE Award for Direction. chayyew.com JODI LONG
Jodi Long A veteran of Stage, Film and Television, Jodi made history in 2021 winning an Emmy for Best Supporting Actress as “Mrs. Basil E” in Netflix's DASH & LILY, becoming the first Asian-American actor to win in any Acting category. Jodi made her Broadway debut at age 7 in NOWHERE TO GO BUT UP directed by Sidney Lumet, the first of five Broadway shows: LOOSE ENDS with Kevin Kline, THE BACCHAE, Stephen Sondheim’s GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER and the revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's FLOWER DRUM SONG. Films include: NIGHT SWIM, SHANG-CHI & THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS, THE HOT CHICK, PATTY HEARST, STRIKING DISTANCE and the upcoming MOTHER WOLF. Television: CHICAGO MED, CURB YOUR ENTUSIASM, Margaret Cho's mother in ALL AMERICAN GIRL, SULLIVAN AND SON, THE MANDALORIAN. lennox t. duong
Lennox T. Duong (Stage Directions) is a first-generation Vietnamese-American born and raised in Fresno, CA. She recently understudied for the role of HANNAH in Shit. Meet. Fan. at MCC. She played SEAN in the new musical HELLO KITTY MUST DIE at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2023. Duong’s workshopped new plays with Williamstown Theater Festival, La Jolla Theater Company, SOHO Rep, the Song Collective, and NAATCO. Training: The Juilliard School. @lennox.t.duong Cailen fu
Cailen Fu (Katie) is so grateful to be part of Chinese Republicans! NYC-based actor and voiceover artist. BROADWAY: Mean Girls. TV: Elsbeth, Law & Order. FILM: The Housemaid (upcoming), Kinda Pregnant (Netflix). REGIONAL (selected): King Lear (Cordelia, Shakespeare Theater DC ft. Patrick Page), The Devil Wears Prada (Chicago Pre-Broadway), Frozen (Princess Anna, TUTS), Newsies (Katherine Plumber, TUTS), Shakespeare in Love (Viola De Lesseps). Proud UC Irvine alum. Repped by CESD and Lakey Wolff + Co. Love to T & L. @cailenfu vanessa kai
Vanessa Kai (Ellen) is best known for her performance as Pei-ling Zhang on the CW hit series “Kung Fu” – the reimagining of the “Kung Fu” original series starring David Carradine. Most recently, you can find Vanessa Kai in a recurring role as Gisela Mott on “Elsbeth” (CBS). Off-Broadway: notable credits include world premieres of KPOP (Lucille Lortel Nomination, Best Featured Actress in a Musical), The Pain of My Belligerence (Playwrights Horizons), Somebody’s Daughter (Second Stage) and The Architecture of Becoming (WP Theater at NY City Center). Select Regional Theaters: Baltimore Center Stage, The Huntington, Seattle Repertory Theater. Additional Television: “New Amsterdam,” “The Mysteries of Laura,” “Orange Is the New Black,” “Gotham,” “The Blacklist.” Vanessa Kai is repped by Artists & Representatives and CLA Partners. www.vanessakai.com starr kirkland
Starr Kirkland (Stage Manager) recently appeared in The Billie and Classix Theatre Collective Presents: Rarely Seen Black Classic Plays, EST's Youngblood Brunch, Breaking the Binary Theatre Festival, 24 Hour Plays: Speak Up, Act Out with The New Victory Theater, and National New Play Network: National Showcase of New Plays 2024. Credits include The Cotillion (New Georges/The Movement Theatre Company), Crying on Television (Everyman Theatre), Ink’dWell (NLTP/59E59), Black Feminist Video Game (59E59/CTG/OSF), Zoetrope (Exquisite Corpse Co), TJ Loves Sally 4 Ever (JACK), Tight Five (New Ambassadors Theatre/Cherry Lane), of the woman… (Normal Ave), HOTTENTOTTED (The Tank), Hephaestus (Theatre in Asylum), and an extensive play development and performance history you can read more about at www.starrkirkland.com ben langhorst
Ben Langhorst (Waiter/Others) is an actor, writer, and composer based in New York. As an actor, he has worked with the Roundabout Theatre Company, Second Stage Theater, Atlantic Theater Company, Next Door @ NYTW, the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, and Pipeline Theatre Company. On screen, his work has been seen in multiple programs for HBO/Max, and the independent film, Allswell in New York (Tribeca Film Festival). As a writer/composer/arranger, his work has been seen at Ars Nova, Dixon Place, Judson Memorial Church, Joe’s Pub, and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts (BFA: Drama). Lydia 黎珈璐 [lí-jiā-lù]
Lydia 黎珈璐 [lí-jiā-lù] is a theatre creator, performer, and teaching artist. Brujx and kenshi. They/Them. English, Chinese, Japanese and emoji user. A living evidence of glocalization, feminism and radical imagination. Missioning the untold stories of the Chinese diaspora. A Resident Artist at Mabou Mines ‘23, an Audience Favorite of SparkFest ‘24 Acting Competition at Amphibian Stage, an ELI alum at APAP ‘25, and currently the inaugural Paris Hotel Fellow ‘23-26 at a todo dar productions led by Virginia Grise. Was Yīng Ruòchéng in Salesman Zhī Sǐ at Connelly Theatre. Lead in short film Firecracker, streaming on Netflix now. More at lilydia.com. Big fan of Alex Lin. Will chug suān-là-tāng without a hiccup for her. |