THE BOOK OF MOUNTAINS AND SEAS
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Two years after losing his son, a California dad teams up with the son’s last boyfriend in New York for an impossible mission to visit all the restaurants on the son’s Yelp page, but each with their own agenda. The dad is Chinese. The boyfriend is American. A comic drama about two people dealing with loss, differences, and their unlikely friendship in a digital and global age.
The Book of Mountains and Seas is the winner of the Lambda Literary Award, the Kennedy Center's Paul Stephen Lim Playwriting Award, a semifinalist for O'Neill Playwrights Conference, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, and a finalist for The New Harmony Project.
DEVELOPMENT HISTORY
New Conservatory Theatre Center, production, March - April 2020 (production canceled due to the pandemic)
DVRF Playwrights Roundtable, reading, January 2019
CAATA, reading, August 2018
Urban Stages, reading, July 2018
WildWind Performance Lab, workshop, June 2018
Kennedy Center Paul Stephen Lim Playwriting Award, Winner, 2018
The New Harmony Project, finalist, 2018
Bay Area Playwrights Festival, semi-finalist, 2018
East West Players, workshop, 2017
(3m)
Two years after losing his son, a California dad teams up with the son’s last boyfriend in New York for an impossible mission to visit all the restaurants on the son’s Yelp page, but each with their own agenda. The dad is Chinese. The boyfriend is American. A comic drama about two people dealing with loss, differences, and their unlikely friendship in a digital and global age.
The Book of Mountains and Seas is the winner of the Lambda Literary Award, the Kennedy Center's Paul Stephen Lim Playwriting Award, a semifinalist for O'Neill Playwrights Conference, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, and a finalist for The New Harmony Project.
DEVELOPMENT HISTORY
New Conservatory Theatre Center, production, March - April 2020 (production canceled due to the pandemic)
DVRF Playwrights Roundtable, reading, January 2019
CAATA, reading, August 2018
Urban Stages, reading, July 2018
WildWind Performance Lab, workshop, June 2018
Kennedy Center Paul Stephen Lim Playwriting Award, Winner, 2018
The New Harmony Project, finalist, 2018
Bay Area Playwrights Festival, semi-finalist, 2018
East West Players, workshop, 2017