Full-length shows

apollo

Book & Lyrics by Ellen Johnston
Music by Emily Chiu

Once upon a time, in a far-off aquarium, there lived a dubiously-prophetic scoundrel of an octopus named Apollo. When his prophetic powers become an international sensation, capitalistic chaos descends upon the aquarium and brings with it an unmanageable cult with terrible merch, a media frenzy with far-too-many sequins, and the disappearance of the those he loves most. Where’s Keiko?

BAK CHANG (肉粽)

Book & Lyrics by Lauren Taslitz
Book & Music by Emily Chiu

Shannon is determined to recreate her late grandmother’s glutinous rice dumpling for her mom, but can’t get it right. Stumped, she tries to enlist the help of her grandmother’s Tai Chi friends at the park. Although they don’t have the recipe (because who uses a recipe??), the grannies eventually guide Shannon to the realization that she’s the one who needed the bak chang all along.

unshelved (圖書館奇妙夜)

Book by Keurim Hur
Lyrics by Emily Chiu
Music by Xiaodan Zhang

Harper and Spork, two underdeveloped minor characters in a mediocre novel, discover the ability to travel into the worlds of other books overnight. When her little sister Spork runs away, Harper must brave the unknown to bring her home before the morning comes and she is lost forever. Unshelved is a genre-hopping musical that explores what it means to choose your own adventure in a world of infinite possibilities.

keaton & the whale

Book & Lyrics by Molly Reisman
Book & Music by Emily Chiu

The 52-hertz whale sings at a frequency higher than any other whale can hear. He is the only one of his kind and is widely known as The Loneliest Whale in the World. No other being has ever communicated with him… Until now.