Plays Written by Miyoko Conley:
HUMAN MUSEUM
STARSHIP DANCE PARTY
END OF THE WORLD PLACE
Synopses:
Human Museum: Set in a future where humans have gone extinct, Human Museum follows a group of robots on Earth that run a museum dedicated to organizing the physical and digital artifacts of human life. On the centenary of human extinction, a sudden radio call upends everything the robots thought they knew about the last days of humanity. Human Museum explores what humans will leave behind when we’re gone, and who will carry on our legacy.
Starship Dance Party: A love letter to the sci-fi genre, Starship Dance Party follows the crew of the Fluffy Bunny, the fastest starship in the galaxy. When a stowaway comes onboard the ship with a dangerous device, the crew must plunge headfirst into an interstellar imperial conflict to try and save the galaxy. Starship Dance Party questions how to make ethical choices when no option seems right.
End of the World Place: Rei and her family run an inn at the physical end of the world, which is part tourist destination, part spiritual mecca. As they grapple with the surreal, everyday happenings of their hometown, the family must try and figure out how to live in a place that seems to be always waiting for the end.
Bio:
Miyoko Conley is an Asian American playwright, games writer, and scholar. Her plays have been presented in the Bay Area and New York City, including at UC Berkeley; UCLA; Second Generation (2g); The Tank; The Wild Project; and New York University. Works include Human Museum (developed at the 2021 Bay Area Playwrights Festival); Starship Dance Party (developed with the New Play Reading series at UC Berkeley); End of the World Place (2015 semi-finalist Bay Area Playwrights Festival); Untitled Fantasy (part of 2g’s Jumpstart Commissions); and Interchangeable Parts (part of 2g’s Free Range Commissions). Miyoko holds a BFA in Theatre from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, an MA from NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study in Playwriting and Japanese Popular Culture, and a PhD in Performance Studies and New Media from the University of California, Berkeley.