Full-length shows

apollo

Book & Lyrics by Ellen Johnston
Music by Emily Chiu

Apollo is a musical comedy set in an aquarium, about the rise and fall of an octopus oracle named Apollo, and the relationship he has with his best friend and fitness buddy, Keiko, an 88-year-old baked yam vendor, who slips him yams on the sly. Their relationship is torn apart when his prophecies are commodified and sold for the highest profit.

BAK CHANG (肉粽)

Book & Lyrics by Lauren Taslitz
Book & Music by Emily Chiu

Shannon is determined to recreate her late grandmother’s glutinous rice dumpling for her mom, but can’t get it right. Stumped, she tries to enlist the help of her grandmother’s Tai Chi friends at the park. Although they don’t have the recipe (because who uses a recipe??), the grannies eventually guide Shannon to the realization that she’s the one who needed the bak chang all along.

unshelved (圖書館奇妙夜)

Book by Keurim Hur
Lyrics by Emily Chiu
Music by Xiaodan Zhang

Harper and Spork, two minor characters in a mediocre Young Adult novel, discover that they are on a magical shelving cart that allows them to travel to other books overnight. 
Unshelved is a genre-hopping meta musical that examines what it means to be a character in our literary landscape. 

keaton & the whale

Book & Lyrics by Molly Reisman
Book & Music by Emily Chiu

The 52-hertz whale sings at a frequency higher than any other whale can hear. He is the only one of his kind and is widely known as The Loneliest Whale in the World. No other being has ever communicated with him… Until now.