The Boy Luck Club

Written by Vichet Chum
Directed by Knud Adams
In collaboration with Page 73 and their Page 2 Workshop program

ART/NY Spaces @ 520
520 8th Avenue, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10018

Thursday, February 6 at 7pm
Friday, February 7 at 3pm and 7pm
Saturday, February 8 at 1pm

This venue is wheelchair accessible.
Feel free to contact us with any questions on accessibility.

Synopsis

In The Boy Luck Club, four friends gather for an irreverent book club to tackle Amy Tan's seminal novel about mothers and daughters. The friends' own experiences navigating parents, lovers, and careers soon take over — and derail — the night.

Performed By

Wai Ching Ho
Daniel K. Isaac
Sushma Saha
Jon Norman Schneider
Shannon Tyo

Production Stage Manager: Ingrid Pierson
Assistant Stage Manager: Isuri Wijesundara
Dramaturg: Emily Zhou
Artist Portraits: Ali Rose Dachis

Playwright

VICHET CHUM [He/Him] is a New York-based writer from Dallas, Texas. His plays have been workshopped/produced at Steppenwolf Theatre, the Alley Theatre, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Ars Nova, Page 73 Productions, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Cleveland Play House, the Magic Theater, the UCROSS Foundation, Fault Line Theatre, Crowded Outlet, Second Generation Productions, Weston Playhouse, Cleveland Public Theatre, South Carolina New Play Festival and the New Harmony Project. He received the 2023 Lucille Bulger Service Award, 2018 Princess Grace Award in Playwriting with New Dramatists, the 2021 Laurents/Hatcher Award, a 2021 Edgerton Foundation New Play Award for the world premiere of his play Bald Sisters which premiered at Steppenwolf Theatre in 2022, and a special state citation from the Massachusetts House of Representatives for his play KNYUM at Merrimack Repertory Theatre in 2018. He is currently a Roundabout Theatre Company Underground Resident, New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect, Sun Valley Writers’ Conference Fellow, New Harmony Project board member, and Obie Award and Tony Award-winning AAPAC (The Asian American Performers Action Coalition) steering committee member. Past notable writers' groups include: the Resident Working Farm Group at Space on Ryder Farm, the Interstate 73 Writer's Group at Page 73 and the Ars Nova Play Group. He is currently working on commissions for Audible, Steppenwolf Theatre, People’s Light, and Seattle Children's Theatre. Vichet's debut YA novel Kween was released last fall with Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. He is a proud graduate of the University of Evansville (BFA) and Brown University/Trinity Repertory Company (MFA) and is represented by WME and CURATE Management. www.VichetChum.com

Director

KNUD ADAMS [He/Him] is an Obie-winning director of artful new plays, based in NYC. He premiered the consecutive Pulitzer Prize winners English and Primary Trust. Additional new works: The Book of Mountain and Seas, I'm Revolting, Bodies They Ritual, The Headlands, Paris, The Workshop Asshole, and Tom & Eliza. His collaborators include Eliza Bent, Eboni Booth, Christopher Chen, Will Eno, Angela Hanks, Justin Kuritzkes, Yilong Liu, Mona Pirnot, Jenny Schwartz, Celine Song, Sanaz Toossi, and Ken Urban. His productions have been celebrated on “Best of the Year” lists by The New York Times, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, and The Washington Post. www.KnudAdams.com