christopher oscar pea: Three Plays: how to make an american son; The Strangers; a cautionary tail

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Transcending 20th-century notions of race and culture, Peas work succeeds in simultaneously touching our hearts, stimulating our minds, and examining our society. (David Henry Hwang) christopher oscar pea is a Latinx American playwright and screenwriter whose works frequently focus on stories that deal with bicultural identities, sexuality, and growing up in the modern world. In this first collected works, three of his plays are brought together for the first time and introduced by director Mark Armstrong. Together they offer a progressive and formally inventive collection of work to inspire theatre makers, actors and students alike. how to make an American son: A moving coming-of-age comedy about the complexities of privilege, citizenship, sexual identity, and the most complex relationship of all: family. A Model Immigrant and business mogul, Honduran-born Mandos cleaning empire is bracing for a downturn at the exact same moment when he must rein in his over-privileged American son Orlando. In the wake of a personal crisis, Orlando suddenly finds himself responsible for the fate of a treasured worker and the future of his fathers entire enterprise. The Strangers: Cris returns to a place he once used to know, only to find a world he no longer recognizes. As he connects with a new stranger tasked to show him around town, an unexpected spark challenges all of Cris preconceived notions. a cautionary tail: A play of impossible choices set in a world of magical characters. First generation Chinese-Americans growing up in New York City, siblings Vivienne and Luke confront their confused tangle of family, their diverse array of friends, and their rampant sexuality. In our digital age, how can they navigate the traditional expectations of their mother with their American culture of individuality

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a cautionary tail is a highly imaginative, yet intimately poignant story about youth, about finding ones direction, about the grip that the people who raise us might have on our entire forward path in life. * New York Theatre Review (on a cautionary tale) *
A provocative immigration story, an eloquent tale of American exceptionalism turned dire and sullen * Broadway World (on how to make an American son) *

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Christopher Oscar Pea is a playwright, screenwriter, actor and educator who resides in New York City. He teaches theater at NYU's Tisch School of Arts and is a member of the Playwrights Unit at Goodman Theatre in Chicago. He also has had work commissioned by Yale Repertory Theatre. Pea is the co-writer of the Golden Globe nominated TV series, Jane the Virgin and was on the "Future Broadway Power List," by Backstage (magazine) in 2014.