91754: Monterey Park Bingo Bitches

Written by: Elizabeth Wong
Directed By: Jennifer Chang
Episode Available: May 20, 2021

It’s Bingo day at the local senior center and Kwan Tai is introducing her old friend Wong Tai to the game and all of its rituals, including her lucky potato. But who will be the big winner when nemesis Mrs. Boodakian turns up? Daubers, cards, and insults fly in this raucous comedy about claiming one’s space.

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Cast

Jade Hykush

Mrs. Boodakian
Theater: Constantinople (Secret Rose Theatre); Saroyan, The Unpublished Plays (Mark Taper Auditorium); Happy Armenians (NoHo Arts Center); Girls Together Always (Actors Company); Front street, Jews Without Money, The Sicilian Bachelor (The Renegade); Blood Wedding, Fog of War (The Ventura Court Theatre); Little Armenia (The Fountain Theatre); Tango Woman (Comedy Store). TV/Film: Claws, Teachers, E-Ring, Lois and Clark, The Trials of Rosie O'Neill, Chasing Tchaikovsky, The Ferguson's, Late for Dinner, The 13th Floor, Chaplin.
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Theater: Little Women (Playwrights Arena); Washer and Dryer, Steel Magnolias, A Little Night Music, The Joy Luck Club (East West Players); Red Flamboyant (Firebone Theatre). TV/Film: This Country, Mom, Hollywood, Kidding, Baskets, This Is Us, Shameless, Why Women Kill, Animal Kingdom, Hawaii 5-0. Video Game: Ghost of Tsushima (Yuriko); Yakuza: Like a Dragon; Sekiro. Voiceover: Abominables, Onward, Incredibles 2, Boss Baby, Moana, Star Wars (last 5 films). Recurring: Great Pretender, Scissor Seven, Bystanders. HB Studio, The New School for Social Research, La Mama, ETC, and Member of the Antaeus Playwrights Lab.  
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Cici Lau

Wong Tai
Theater: Mama from China (Secret Rose Theatre); Gumsimao (Playwrights' Arena); Joy Luck Club (East West Players). TV/Film: Paper Tiger, Shameless, Los Lobos (The Wolves), Better Things, Arrested Development, S.W.A.T., Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television, The Jade Pendant, Grey's Anatomy, Brooklyn-Nine-Nine, Fear the Walking Dead, Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders, Mike & Molly, Whitney, Torchwood, HOP, Burning Palms, Johnny Raikou, The Comedian, Love Arcadia, Mantervention, Breaking In, Sons of Anarchy, Love, Ping Pong Playa, Adventures of Johnny Tao, American Fusion, Robbery Homicide, The Tick, The League, Legally Blonde, and ER. Last year Cici was in pre-production as an executive producer in a feature, Her Missing Twin. She is also a supporting actor, and the filming is scheduled to be wrapped in March 2021.  https://imdb.to/2rv85iD
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Production Team

Elizabeth Wong

Writer
Elizabeth Wong’s plays include Tam Tran Goes To Washington, Kimchee & Chitlins, Letters to a Student Revolutionary, and China Doll. Her work has been produced at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Victory Gardens Theater, Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, and East West Players. Honors include the Tanne Foundation Award for Artistic Achievement, and the Kennedy Center’s David Mark Cohen National Playwriting Award. An alumna of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Ms. Wong was also a Disney Writing Fellow, Los Angeles Times Op-Ed columnist, and writer for the ABC sitcom All-American Girl starring Margaret Cho. She’s a member of PEN, Dramatist Guild, and Writers Guild West. Currently, she teaches at Boston Conservatory@Berklee. elizabethwong.net

Jennifer Chang

Director
Jennifer Chang is a director, actor, and educator.  Select Directing credits include: Where the Mountain Meets the Moonby Min Kahng (South Coast Rep), Hannah and the Dread Gazebo by Jiehae Park (Fountain Theatre), Vietgone by Qui Nguyen (LADCC Award). Select new play development:  Ashland New Plays Festival, Center Theatre Group, Boston Court,  Geffen Playhouse, Chance Theatre, Echo Theatre Company, Circle X Theatre Company, Chalk Rep, and East West Players. Other: 2020 APAFT Award, Alumnus Directors Lab West, Drama League NY Fellowship. Head of Undergraduate Acting at UCSD.  Member: SDC, SAG-AFTRA, AEA. BFA: NYU, MFA: UCSD.  More info: changinator.com
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