What's New
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The Kilroys List includes the Laborer's monologue from Madame Ho in its new anthology of 97 monologues from plays by women and trans playwrights. What an honor to be in the company of these stunning writers. |
July 4 - 16, 2017: The Chan Family Picnic becomes a vaudeville at Berkeley Rep's Ground Floor developmental lab with Eugenie and composer Byron Au Yong huddling over computers and a piano.
Madame Ho premieres October 5 - 21, 2017 at the Exit Theater in San Francisco's Mid-Market arts district. Free community performances October 28 - 29, 2017 in Chinatown!
March 24, 2017: The Chan Family Picnic has been invited to be in residence at Berkeley Repertory Theater's Ground Floor developmental lab in July 2017! Composer Byron Au Yong and I will join forces to completely transform what is now a play with music into a full-fledged nouvelle vaudeville. Watch out, world!
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Journey to Emeraldville, a new play by Eugenie, based on the reporting of Center for Investigating Reporting’s Shoshana Walter, about the exploitation of women trimmers in Humboldt County’s marijuana industry, has a reading at Z Below, San Francisco, May 30, 2017. Jenna Welch, Artistic Director of StoryWorks, directs. |
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Listen to Eugenie and New York playwrights Julia Jarcho, Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas, and Deborah Stein talk about the challenges and rewards of writing and producing plays with Andy Bragen in a podcast from ND: In Depth.
Check out what Eugenie and her peers John Bernson, Sharon Bridgforth, Amy Freed, Anne Galjour, Garret Jon Groenveld, Dipika Guha, Lauren Gunderson, Mark Jackson, Geetha Reddy, Andrew Saito, and Jonathon Spector feel about "How the San Francisco Bay Area Affects the Playwrights who Live There" by SF native and fellow scribe, Peter Nachtrieb.
Eugenie joins the Advisory Board of Kearny Street Workshop.
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Word for Word and LitQuake present Selections from The Woman Warrior and China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston Directed by Eugenie Chan 7 pm Monday, October 10, 2016 Z Space Main Stage (click here to for tickets) An Off the Page Reading (What an honor to direct the work of the pioneering writer who inspired my studies as a young student! I wrote my thesis on The Woman Warrior.) |
Rotimi Agababiaka as Superintendent Quisdedo, Keiko Shimosato Carreiro as teacher Ethel Orocuru in Schooled.
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Keiko Shimosato Carreiro as the receptionist Tatiana, LIsa Hori-Garcia as CEO Fredersen J. Babbit in Schooled.
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Eugenie co-writes Schooled, a musical comedy and political satire about education in America -- and the 2016 U.S. presidential election by the San Francisco Mime Troupe. July 2- September 5, 2016 in Bay Area parks. Free musical theater for the community!
Radio personality Maggie Wong interviews Eugenie about Madame Ho on Chinese-language Bay Area Metro Radio. Tune your dial to AM 1400, May 26, 2016, 3:30 pm.
In May 2016, the Kenneth Rainin Foundation awards ECTP a New & Experimental Works to support Madame Ho.
In March 2016, the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center selects Madame Ho's May 28, 2016 bilingual reading as a Sponsored Project of the United States of Asian America 2016 Festival.
Marcy Straw, arts executive
In January 2016, arts executive Marcy Straw joins ECTP to share her expertise!
(L to R: Wes Asakawa, Jomar Tagatac, Beverly Sotelo, Bonnie Akimoto, John Patrick Moore, Lisa Hori-Garcia, Arthur Keng, Monica Ho, Lily Tung Crystal, Eugenie Chan)
19 Wentworth Alley, Chinatown Reading. Z Below, San Francisco. Monday, December 14, 2015. (Part of ECTP'S 5 Generations Trilogy.) What an amazing cast!
Sonia Fernandez, Hilary Flynn, Loretta Greco, Kelli Crump, Eugenie, Ellen Abram eat cake from the Kilroys at the Magic.
The Kilroys send a cake to the Magic Theater celebrating their 2015-16 Season of Women Playwrights.
Eugenie is commissioned by StoryWorks/Tides Theater to write a play in collaboration with the Labor Beat of the Center for Investigative Reporting in 2016.
ECTP and 6NewPlays schedule a co-production of Madame Ho for Fall 2017. (Part of ECTP'S 5 Generations Trilogy.)
ECTP receives funding from the Zellerbach Family Foundation to write and workshop a Cantonese-narrated version of Madame Ho, February 2016, at the Chinese Historical Society of America. (Part of ECTP'S 5 Generations Trilogy.)
ECTP will receive part of a Venturous Theater Fund grant given to 6NewPlays October 2015. (Part of ECTP'S 5 Generations Trilogy.)
Eugenie becomes a member of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Labor Task Force Fall 2015
Madame Ho is featured on the Kilroys Best Plays by Women Writers List 2015. (Part of ECTP'S 5 Generations Trilogy.)
ECTP is founded and becomes a Core Member of Intersection for the Arts in 2014.
Eugenie co-founds 6NewPlays with Erin Bregman, Christopher Chen, Barry Eitel, Andrea Hart, & Brian Thorstenson.
