by Henry Ong
World Premiere
Plain Wood Productions
Skylight Theater
DIRECTOR Diana Wyenn
SET Randy Wong-Westbrooke
COSTUME Mylette Nora
LIGHTS Joey Guthman
SOUND John Zalewski
PROJECTIONS Yuki Izumihara
PROPS Brittany White
STAGE MANAGER Jacob Padilla
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Shuwen Cao
ASSOC. PROJECTION DESIGNER Veronica Avalos
ASST. LIGHTING DESIGNER Antonia Yang
CO-TECHNICAL DIRECTION Bill Ballou & Jennifer Gilbert
DRAMATURG Diana Wyenn
DIALECT COACHES Patrick Chew & Tracy Winters
CASTING Shyree Mezick
CARPENTERS Donato Karingal, Josh Bennet
ELECTRIANS Trish Gutierrez, Salem Mitchell, Zach Phaneuf, Kayla Safavi, Branden Sandoval, Josh Bennet
CAST Trieu Tran, Iris Liu, Russell Edge, Jorge-Luis Pallo
Photos by Angel Origgi & Randy Wong-Westbrooke
“But the most striking element of the production, other than Wyenn’s incredible direction, is Randy Wong-Westbrooke’s scenic design which features a half-dome representation of a rocket engine with a two-step platform upon which, or in front of, all the scenes take place, with Yuki Izumihara’s projection design featured at its center to reflect various locales, even among the stars.” -BroadwayWorld
“At the center of Randy Wong-Westbrooke’s set is a spherical orb inside concentric circles that resembles the cross-section of a rocket engine, but also echoes both the orbits of the planets in our solar system and the layers of Xuesen’s different identities and priorities.” -LA Theatrix
“Like a telescope pointed towards the heavens, the backdrop of Randy Wong-Westbrooke’s inspired scenic design serves as a circular frame for Yuki Izumihara’s scene-setting and celestial projections […].” -StageSceneLA
“[T]he play’s settings roam from China to both American coasts and a few stops in between; the period covered extends from 1935 to 2012; but Ong contains this on an elegantly precise and lovely set by Randy Wong-Westbrooke […}.”-Stage and Cinema