Dawn by Tuyết Thị Phạm
Mary, a first-generation Cambodian American, struggles with guilt, anger, and grief of generational trauma as she tries to unpack her parents’ experiences as survivors of the Cambodian genocide under the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot, having lost their first child in a bomb raid. Mary’s parents, one Catholic and one Buddhist, coped differently with their grief, and Mary ultimately has to find a way to reconcile her own beliefs and with theirs to find a path to healing.
Director: Raymond Cadwell
CAST
MARY..........Carolina Đỗ
MOTHER..............TBA
SAM..........Elliott Kashner
COMMUNTE DIRECTOR........Stan Kang
Stage Directions: Steve Lee
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
Tuyết Thị Phạm
Tuyết Thị Phạm is a Helen Hayes Award-winning actor living in Washington, DC. After earning her Master's, she moved to Washington, DC to become an Artistic Fellow at the famed Living Stage Theatre Company at Arena Stage. Following her fellowship, she has worked as a stage, television, film, and print performer for over twenty years and has been seen in over 50 productions in the Baltimore-Washington DC area and other theatres that include roles at Centerstage, Everyman Theatre, Olney Theatre, Constellation Theatre Company, RepStage, Roundhouse Theatre, Imagination Stage, Signature Theatre, The HUB Theatre, The Inkwell, Ford’s Theatre, The Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, Arena Stage, and The Capital Fringe Festival. Her play Dinner and Cake received its world premiere at Everyman Theatre in Baltimore, MD in Fall of 2022, and she was commissioned to write, co-direct and perform in Ping Chong and Company’s Generation Rise, presented at the Reston Arts Center in the spring of 2023. She served as Associate Director for Tripp Cullman on Kenneth Lin’s World Premiere of his play Exclusion at Arena Stage