EWP's New Works Festival

Amanda L. Andrei is a playwright, literary translator, and theater critic/journalist residing in Los Angeles by way of Virginia/Washington DC. She writes epic, irreverent plays that center the concealed, wounded places of history from the perspectives of diasporic Filipina women, and she co-translates from Romanian to English with her father. Her play MAMA, I WISH I WERE SILVER won the 2022 Jane Chambers Award for Feminist Playwriting. Her plays have been produced by Relative Theatrics and developed with Boston Court, La MaMa, Echo Theatre, Artists at Play, Circle X, and more, as well as received finalist status with the Princess Grace Award, Eugene O’Neill Conference, Playwrights Realm, and Ashland Festival. Her articles appear in the L.A. Times, American Theatre Magazine, Stage Raw, Howl Round, Rappler, 3Views, and more, and her translations in Asymptote Journal, Another Chicago Magazine, and Lunch Ticket. She is a Theatre Communications Group Rising Leaders of Color (2023). MFA: University of Southern California. www.amandalandrei.com

Kevin Wong is a composer-lyricist, singer/musician, and dramaturg. His musicals include: RECURRING JOHN: A SONG CYCLE; STAR!(ving): A COLLECTION OF SONGS; POLLY PEEL (with Julie Tepperman); OUT OF STOCK; DRAMA 101 (with Steven Gallagher); IN REAL LIFE (with Nick Green); BELIEVERS (with Ali Joy Richardson), TAKE ME BACK (with Amir Haidar); and SOFT MAGICAL TOFU BOY(S). Kevin streams online concerts weekly on the streaming service Twitch (twitch.tv/kevinywong). He is a member of the vocal group Asian Riffing Trio (with Chris Tsujiuchi and Colin Asuncion), is currently part-time faculty at Sheridan College, and is a three-time winner of the Playwrights Guild of Canada’s Tom Hendry Dan School of Drama & Music Award for New Musical. As of 2023, he is the Creative Lead on the Musical Stage Company’s UnCovered concert series. Most recently, he can be heard on his albums Small Ways to Move and Covers (available on streaming services everywhere).

The Trans History Project is a revolutionary national initiative created by Bo Frazier, Baltimore Center Stage’s Artist-in-Residence. Led by Baltimore Center Stage and Breaking the Binary Theatre, this project aims to commission, develop, and publish 10 new plays about the real history of gender non-conformity which has existed across all cultures since the beginning of time. There will be 10 Trans and Gender Nonconforming playwrights (TGNC) commissioned by BCS who will subsequently be placed into 2-year development residencies at theaters across the country in 2 cohorts.