Wanning Jen

Meet the cast and the writer, director, producer of 'Wild Child'!  'Wild Child' is the third play in the trilogy 'Woman You Thought You Knew' and goes up at the Kraine Theatre Sunday, April 24, 2016 at 3pm for a workshop performance before going up with the entire trilogy's full production later this year.  

In 'Midnight Kill,' written and directed by K.K. Wong, a school campus in a Chinese rural village during the 1970's becomes a theater of twisted, oppressed but indelible human desires. Daily mundane activities become an absurd performance of ordinary people's basic emotions. The play is based around an actual murder story that occurred in a mountain hamlet in Anhui province (China), where the author lived for five years. Yangtze Repertory Theatre of America will present the work's world premiere May 6 to 22 at Theater for the New City, 155 First Ave., NYC. It will be performed in Mandarin Chinese with English subtitles and will be completely accessible for English-speaking audiences.

In early 2015 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 6 prisoners took hostage of the warden, successfully winning the attention from the public, after the convicted former president was granted compassionate release. The 6 prisoners did not attempt to escape, but rather chose another path leading to tragedy, after making their statements to society. Taiwanese director and playwright, and current Associate Artistic Director of The Living Theatre, Dennis Yueh-Yeh Li, after his adaptation of Peter Weiss's 'The New Trial' at Theater for the New City, through 'Exile 5.42' will take a closer look at the incident, pointing out the struggles of the incarcerated and examining the penological system. This new project 'Exile 5.42' will be presented by Dixon Place tonight, March 3rd at 7:30pm as a work-in-progress project.

In early 2015 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 6 prisoners took hostage of the warden, successfully winning the attention from the public, after the convicted former president was granted compassionate release. The 6 prisoners did not attempt to escape, but rather chose another path leading to tragedy, after making their statements to society. Taiwanese director and playwright, and current Associate Artistic Director of The Living Theatre, Dennis Yueh-Yeh Li, after his adaptation of Peter Weiss's 'The New Trial' at Theater for the New City, through 'Exile 5.42' will take a closer look at the incident, pointing out the struggles of the incarcerated and examining the penological system. This new project 'Exile 5.42' will be presented by Dixon Place on March 3rd at 7:30pm as a work-in-progress project.

UPCOMING TRAIN/STOPPED CLOCK/UNTITLED WAITING will play Dream Up Festival, Saturday, August 24, 2013 through Friday, August 30, 2013 at The Joyce and Seward Johnson Theater, Theater for the New City. Tickets are $15.