The School For Wives, at its core, is about gender power dynamics. We are looking forward to telling this classic 17th century French tale through the lens of a contemporary aesthetic and an all female, primarly non-white cast to further bring into focus the inherent power of justice and equality over racism and sexism. Furthermore, by casting a Black woman in the central role of ARNOLPHE - a whit...

The Pink Detachment is an update of “The Red Detachment of Women” (1964), a Model Opera from China’s Cultural Revolution. Here the protagonists are an accident-prone worker and a ballerina-manager who has the tools to alleviate the worker’s problems. At the center of the piece is the color equation, Red + White = Pink, from which multiple parallel meanings emerge. The first is the old term “pinko...

A Filipina transplanted to NYC, Karen is a transgender woman battling daily with psychologically tumultuous, painful and debilitating gender dysphoria. Her only solution is to save enough money to pay for sex reassignment surgery. But when her beloved mother reveals that she needs life-saving surgery of her own, Karena;s existence is thrown into further turmoil. If she pays for her mother’s proced...