FOUR updates today:

1) Ma-Yi Lab is producing a benefit for the Philippines, to buy new fishing boats for villagers affected by Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda. HELP US BUY BOATS!

The event is called "Mga Kasabihan / Words of Wisdom" and features brand-new short plays written by the Ma-Yi Labbies and inspired by Filipino proverbs, sayings, and malapropisms. It's going down on MON FEB 17 at 7pm thanks to a generous space donation from Playwrights Horizons (416 W 42nd St). Tickets are $35 for general admission and $50 for premium (includes select seating and a 20% discount to Ma-Yi's production of The Wong Kids).

Event Link:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1376300969300968/

Ticketing Link: 
https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pe.c/9881284

2) I'm on a two-part Maxamoo podcast about upcoming works by playwrights of color. (Mostly in NY but I get in a few national plugs in part 2.) The link to part 1 is below.

http://www.maxamoo.com/podcast/upcoming-shows-playwrights-color-part-1/

3) Rehana Lew Mirza just won the InterAct commission (via NNPN) for a new play about domestic terrorism.

http://www.broadwayworld.com/philadelphia/article/InterAct-Announces-Winners-of-Annual-Play-Commission-Program-20140128

4) Speaking of InterAct, If you're in Philly on Feb 10 I've got a reading of my brand-new play Tiger Style!, which has never been seen outside of Juilliard.

http://www.broadwayworld.com/philadelphia/article/Asian-Arts-Initiative-InterAct-to-Launch-New-Play-Reading-Series-Next-Month-20140127



-Mike

I am thrilled and overwhelmed to announce that I have been named the second annual Lanford Wilson Award winner via the Dramatists Guild, as well as a 2013 Helen Merrill Award winner.

Rehana and I have been living totally hand-to-mouth lately, her with her grad school debt and me having just finished grad school. I always knew that the life of an artist would be financially precipitous, but that realization has been made starkly apparent given a two-playwright household.

I am just so unspeakably grateful for the generosity of the Dramatists Guild, and Lanford Wilson and Helen Merrill's estates, and my teachers at Juilliard - Marsha Norman and Chris Durang. Scratch that; we're doubly grateful. In a home where we're constantly taking turns alternating between who has to be the breadwinner and who gets to be the artist, these awards give us both a chance to focus exclusively on our art.

Coverage from the Dramatists Guild Awards Ceremony:
Playbill
Broadway World
Theatermania