NEW EYES FESTIVAL

art inspired by Aleksandra Gurneau/KNOCK, inc.

MU’S LONGEST RUNNING TRADITION

Our play-reading festival has been around since 1993 as a showcase for new Asian American works and as an artistic incubator for thoughts and ideas. In 2024, we opened it up for national submissions for the first time in almost a decade. And this season, we’re asking artists to submit short plays or excerpts that respond to a specific prompt: What is freedom?

The New Eyes Festival is free to attend, and audiences can expect a staged reading of each play. A reading is a form of theater without sets or full costumes, and actors read from scripts and incorporate minimal stage movement. Past plays have included Samah Meghjee’s Maybe You Could Love Me, Brian Dang’s Grandmother/Bathtub, Ankita Raturi’s Fifty Boxes of Earth, Saymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay’s Kung Fu Zombies Vs. Shaman Warrior, Katie Ka Vang and Melissa Li’s Again, Isabella Dawis and Tidtaya Sinutoke’s Half the Sky, Leah Nanako Winkler’s Two Mile Hollow, and Lloyd Suh’s Charles Francis Chan Jr.’s Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery.

More information about our call for submissions and festival to come!

GENERAL INFORMATION

DATES & LOCATION TBA

PRICE

This event is free and open to the public. Seating is limited (general admission), so RSVP today!

MEET THE SCRIPT COORDINATOR

JANE PEÑA (she/her) has used her background in dramaturgy, arts administration, and most recently her graduate degree in library science to serve as Theater Mu’s office and literary manager since 2020. As a dramaturg, reader, script supervisor, and artistic apprentice, Jane has experience with: Theater Mu, Yale Cabaret, the Playwrights’ Center, the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Goodman Theatre, the Playwrights’ Realm, and others.

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