Shoyu Tell
by Sam Hamashima

Shoyu Tell is a bite sized TYA piece looking at a young student's decision to bring "Family Food" to "School Lunch". Mixing the Japanese word for Soy-sauce and the Elementary School "Show and Tell", this script will let audiences in on the importance of food in Japanese American culture and the courage it takes to be different. Commissioned by Lexington Children's Theatre. 
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​World Premiere, Lexington Children's Theatre:

Production Profile:

​Directed by Jeremy Kisling.
Costume Designer: Audrey Reed.
Set Designer: Jennifer Hiyama.
Lighting Designer: Maranda DeBusk
Technical Director:​ Gabriel Slusser

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​Featuring Rusty Allen, Michelle Pokopac, Kim Dixon Luckey, Erica Dilworth, Zachary A. Myers.​
Stage Manager: Kate Tayler
​Produced by Lexington Children's Theatre
Production Photography by Sally Horowitz

Supposed Home
by Sam Hamashima

​Shiyo left the Japanese American Concentration Camps a long time ago. Or so she thought. Faced with questions from a curious grandson, Shiyo's world becomes both what had happened and what was wanted. Past and present become one landscape for this anime adventure as enemies are revealed, companions are found, trauma is unpacked, and what was only thought becomes (un)spoken word.​

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​Supposed Home is the winner of the 2019 Emerald Prize. Following a week of workshop, Supposed Home was presented as a staged reading directed by Annie Lareau.

For more information about The Emerald Prize, click here.
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Commissioned by Seattle Public Theater.

Sellout
by Sam Hamashima

The family secrets have been spilled to the masses and the Dead want revenge. In this psychological thriller, the ethics of storytelling are investigated and a question is lobbed to the American Theater: What does it mean for a BIPOC Writer to spill secrets that were never meant for a White Audience?

​Commissioned by San Francisco Playhouse.