BFE (Director, 2019)
In BFE, a.k.a the middle-of-nowhere in quintessential American suburbia, blonde girls are disappearing from Panny’s school. As the fourteen year old navigates surviving adolescence along with her delusional mother and dysfunctional family, BFE paints a portrait of human isolation and what it means to exist in a world that we don’t quite know how to inhabit. The show is an exploration of different forms of Asian and Asian American identity, of the modern suburban landscape, the hunger for contact and what these things together can breed.
BFE
Written by Julia Cho
Directed by Annie Ning
Photos by Wilson Lai
Publicity by Gabriel Drozdov
March 2018 // ‘92 Patricelli Theater, Middletown CT
Stage Managed by Kira Newmark
Assistant Stage Management Susanna Kim and Jiayao Zhu
Intimacy Choreography by Rachele Merliss
Lighting Designed by Wilson Lai
Assistant Lighting Design Jonathan Tang
Set Designed by Jordan Tragash
Projections Designed by Daniel Osofsky
Props Designed by Sige Zheng
Sound Designed by Jacob Brodsky
with Original Score by Julia Mitchell
Hair and Makeup Designed by Christine Zheng
Featuring:
Naomi Okada and Vivian Eng as Panny (past and present)
Julia Chung, Benjamin Yap, Chapin Montague, Rhys O’Connor, Inayah Bashir, Eli Conlin, Miguel Perez-Glassner, Yudai Miyamoto