Moonie

A solo show about lineage, love, motherhood and the grief that comes with it all. Did you know that although you were carried in your mother's womb, the egg you came from was first formed in your grandmother's womb? Moonie didn't. This year, Moonie turns 30, and has decided to go on dates with 100 men this year. Today, she is going on her 88th. It is not because her Taiwanese mother forced her. Or because she is lonely. Or because she is afraid she won't know how to keep living when her mother dies. About the Artists About the Artists Stefani Kuo 郭佳怡 (she/her) is a poet/playwright/performer from Hong Kong and Taiwan. She received her BA from Yale University and her MFA in Playwriting from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. Fluent in Cantonese, Mandarin, French and English, she is interested in crafting multicultural, multilingual narratives for international audiences. She was a 2024 MacDowell Fellow, Working Farm Resident with SPACE on Ryder Farm. She is under commission with the Atlantic Theater Company, Ensemble Studio Theater/Sloan, and has received commissions from Rubin Museum, Roundhouse Theater and Yangtze Repertory. She is a member of Youngblood, EST's Writers Group, and was a 2019 member of Interstate-73, Page 73's Writers Group. Her plays have won multiple awards, including the 2021 Leah Ryan Fund for Emerging Women Writers' Prize for Final Boarding Call. Her work in creative non-fiction, poetry and translation has appeared in The New York Times, China Hands, Electric Literature and more. As a performer, she recently acted in short films Radical Kinship (dir. Sofi Taylor) , Someday (dir. Justin Cheung) and Prelude (dir. April Wen) . Jisun Kim is a theater artist and dramaturg currently pursuing a doctorate in dramaturgy and dramatic criticism at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University. They have worked as a dramaturg for productions at Yale Repertory Theatre and for a playwrights' workshop at the Kennedy Center, in addition to serving as Co-Artistic Director of the Yale Cabaret. They also served as Managing Editor of Theater magazine and as an Artistic Fellow at Yale Rep. Their academic research explores queer of color performances as contemporary rituals that understand queerness as a cosmological force rather than an identity category.