Chloé Hung is a playwright, screenwriter, and director. Her plays include Three Women of Swatow (Tarragon Theatre; Dora Award nominee for Outstanding New Play; upcoming production with Centaur Theatre Nov 2024), Issei He Say (New Jersey Rep), All Our Yesterdays (Toronto Fringe Fest’s Patron’s Pick, Next Stage Theatre Fest), and has an upcoming production of If I Only… with Theatre by the Bay September 2024. She has workshopped plays and been in residence with IAMA Theatre, Geffen Theatre’s Writers room, Great Plains Theatre Conference, Stratford Festival for Canada’s Playwrights Retreat, Moving Arts’ MADLab, Banff Playwrights Lab, NNPN’s MFA workshop at The Kennedy Center, Circle of Missé, and Tarragon’s Playwrights Unit. Currently, Chloé is a Playwrights’ Center Core Writer, and hold play commissions with IAMA Theatre’s Rhimes Unsung Voices commission and Theatre By the Bay. In TV and film, Chloé has written for Queen Sugar, Cherish the Day, The Watchful Eye, and developed for Netflix. She was a Film Independent and The Black List screenwriting fellow. Her short films include Signal and Gem & Shaz (streaming on Crave in Canada). Chloé holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU Tisch. www.chloehung.com
WATCH ONLINE: Alien of Extraordinary Ability
Free
March 3 - March 9
As O-1 (the titular Alien of Extraordinary Ability) awaits her work visa, she finds herself in limbo with other visa hopefuls, some of whom have been trapped in this waiting room for decades.
As O-1 confronts the hierarchy of the U.S. immigration system, the world outside implodes, turning the tables of who is in power. At once surrealist and timely, Alien of Extraordinary Ability asks us to consider how we decide who belongs, and on what terms.
ALIEN OF EXTRAORDINARY ABILITY came out of my frustration with the American immigration system. There is no such thing as starting over in the land of the free. You are evaluated based on your past, your family, your home country, and a host of other factors that are out of your control. With Playwrights’ Center, I am honored and excited to explore this play further and push the boundaries of theatricality.
This is an online event. Online readings are recorded, edited, and made available to view for one week after the in-person readings take place. The video will be available to view at any time during the week from March 3-9.
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