Did Yoko Ono really break up The Beatles? Was Gloria Abe Chapman somehow responsible for John Lennon’s murder? Why do all these egotistical white guys marry Asian women? That’s weird, right? These are the questions that keep Ruby Okamoto up at night. She needs answers, and she’s gonna find them—even if it means summoning Yoko, Gloria, and the rest of Asian America into her insomniatic fever dream.

In Yoko’s Husband’s Killer’s Japanese Wife, Gloria, five Asian American women are pulled into Ruby’s fantastical dreamscape, where subconscious thoughts manifest as real-life rockstars and movie monsters. They journey, dream, and address the hard-to-define-but-definitely-their connection between Asians in America.

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Development History

• August 2024 — Recipient of MAP Fund Grant

• July 2024 — Residency at Rhinebeck Writers Retreat

• November 2023 — Presentation at the National Alliance of Musical Theater

• September 2023 — Workshop at 5th Avenue Theater

• July 2023 — 2-wk workshop at the O'Neill National Music Theater Conference

• July 2023 — Residency at the Orchard Project

• June 2023 — 29-hour reading with the Civilians' R&D Group,
  with additional funding courtesy of the 5th Avenue Theatre and NAMT
  via the Frank Young Fund for New Musicals Project Development Grant

• May 2023 — residency at Aunt Karen's Farm, sponsored by the Civilians

• November 2022 — 29-hour reading at Playwright's Horizons in New York, NY
  sponsored by the 5th Avenue Theatre

• October 2022 — joined the‍ Civilians R&D Group

• June 2022 — table reading at the 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle, WA

• May 2021 — commissioned by the 5th Avenue Theatre's First Draft program