Beautiful Princess Disorder by Kathy Ng ‘25 MFA directed by Talley Murphy, PhD Candidate Reading: 2/11 1 PM 2/12 11 AM Leeds Theatre 83 Waterman Street, Providence RI 02912 click here for tickets Triangle Person is a “human body” with a triangle “head”. The “head” part is made of something like cardboard. The” human body” part wears a navy-blue no-nonsense swimsuit. Triangle Person lives in a patch of sky right next door to heaven. God has never come by with a casserole, though. Triangle Person’s roommates are Mother Teresa and Tilikum the bull orca. There’s lots to do and luckily, all the time in the world. A fuzzy-edged sibling drama for the only child.
kathy ng (she/they) writes plays and makes mixed-media crafts. She was born in Hong Kong. Her work attempts to create stretchy human-adjacent spaces, nursing grounds for newborn languages, and giant magnifying glasses for all the tiny things underneath. Recent works include bacon sausage veggie noodles (Clubbed Thumb Reading Series) and happy life (O’Neill Finalist ‘21, The Hearth). Kathy made her nyc debut in the summer of 2022, when happy life received its world premiere production at Walker Space. The production was called “porous but sticky” - New York Times and “a kinky, violent, tentacle-porno masterpiece”- Stagebuddy, which makes her blush. She is a New Georges Affiliated Artist and an alum of Clubbed Thumb’s Early-Career Writers’ Group. BA from Brown in Writing for Performance. She currently lives in Providence, a home-like place, where she’s back at Brown and pursuing her MFA in playwriting. Talley Murphy is a stage director, video artist, and performance studies scholar based in New York, NY and Providence, RI. Talley is a founding member and director at Fullscreen Blackbox, a digital-age theatre company, where they direct new and devised work. In summer 2023, Talley will be directing geography, which will be staged both in person and online via surveillance cameras. At Fullscreen Blackbox, Talley collaborates with actors, writers, and multimedia artists to create work at the intersection of performance and new technology. Fullscreen Blackbox partners with national nonprofits and community organizations, including, recently, Stonewall Community Foundation, New Sanctuary Coalition and the 246 for 2021 campaign, and the Safe Passage Project. Other recent directing projects include Antigonick (UN Women HeForShe), Romeo and Juliet (Awake at 3), and Catastrophe: An Improvisation (developed at the Rhode Island School of Design). Talley has been a teaching artist for children and young adults in southwestern Maine and Washington, DC. Talley is currently a PhD Candidate in Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University researching gesture, carcerality, and digital capitalism as they converge in the United States. Talley has a BA in Theatre from Barnard College. talleymurphy.com / fullscreenblackbox.com