Works written by Clare Bierman
YOKO’S HUSBAND’S KILLER’S JAPANESE WIFE GLORIA
Synopses:
Yoko’s Husband’s Killer’s Japanese Wife Gloria – Did Yoko Ono really break up The Beatles? Was Gloria Abe Chapman somehow responsible for John Lennon’s murder? Why do all these egotistical white guys marry Asian women? That’s weird, right? These questions keep Ruby Okamoto up at night. She‘s getting answers—even if she has to summon all of Asian America into her insomniatic fever dream. Yoko’s Husband’s Killer’s Japanese Wife, Gloria is a new musical written by Brandy Hoang Collier, Clare Fuyuko Bierman, and Erika Ji. In it, five Asian American women are pulled into nineteen-year-old Ruby’s fantastical dreamscape, where subconscious thoughts manifest as real-life rockstars and movie monsters. They journey, dream, and address the hard-to-define-but-definitely-there connection between Asians in America.
Bio:
Clare Fuyuko Bierman is a librettist and lyricist raised in a Japanese-Jewish home with some rabbits, a snake, and a bunch of finches. Recent projects include Cry, Wolf (Washington National Opera), Yoko’s Husband’s Killer’s Japanese Wife, Gloria (5th Avenue Theater commission, O’Neill New Musical Theater Conference, Vivace Award winner, Relentless Award finalist), and The People vs American Cheese (American Opera Projects). She was a finalist for the 2025 Kleban Prize and has participated in the Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project, the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Play Festival, the Workshop Fellowship for Jews of Color, and Broadway’s Future Songbook Series. MFA New York University.