My Plays…
a reflection on the fraught intertwinement of labor, sexual violence, and the complex beauty of marine biology as it relates to two Chinese (American) women across space and time.
Finalist, Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, 2024
Semi-Finalist, Premiere Play Festival, Premiere Stages at Kean University, 2024
Workshop, Lambda Literary Emerging LGBTQ+ Writers Retreat, 2023
Reading, Breaking and Entering Theatre Collective, 2023
Writer’s Group, The Workshop Theatre, 2023
Simply put - a play about a family in two acts. Based on a true story of family, survival, and organized crime in 1970’s Chinatown, NYC.
Semi-Finalist, National Playwriting Conference , Eugene O'Neill Theater Center , 2023
Semi-Finalist, Premiere Play Festival, Premiere Stages at Kean University, 2023
Writer’s Group, The Workshop Theatre, 2022
Honors in American Studies, Wesleyan University, 2022
Watch Esmé perform the opening monologue to their new work-in-progress ‘i know why iris chang died’ at the 2023 Lambda Literary Emerging LGBTQ+ Writers Retreat
Other Types of Writing….
Attention Must Be Paid to the Translator in ‘Salesman之死’ (Published in American Theatre Magazine)
Yangtze Rep’s new production looks behind the scenes, and under the layers, of Arthur Miller’s Beijing staging of ‘Death of a Salesman.’
A Safe Room for Bold Plays (Published in American Theatre Magazine)
The 3 writers in Second Stage’s Judith Champion Reading Series—Sarah Mantell, D.A. Mindell, and Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin—reflect on their plays and their process.