An Asian-American man drives from his home in Chicago to a small lake town in rural Iowa, to confront a bar owner with whom he suspects he shares a traumatic childhood experience. What ensues is a tension-filled night where two men must find the courage to be honest and vulnerable with each other.

Director Biography - Philip Miles Orduna, Sarah Young

Miles Orduña - Director/Writer

Philip Miles Orduña is a mixed, Filipino-American, New York-based playwright and screenwriter who tells complicated, poignant stories about place, love, family, and identity through the lens of his mixed Filipino heritage and unique upbringing in San Francisco, Syracuse, and Des Moines, IA .

His plays and screenplays have been developed and produced through The New School, Cherry Lane Theatre’s Tongue Series, Naked Angel’s 1st Monday’s reading series, Royal Family Productions, and The Lark.

Miles is a 2023/24 Sundance Institute/TAAF Collab Scholarship recipient, a 2023 Great Plains Theater Commons New Play Conference participant, a 2022 Sundance Episodic Lab finalist, a 2023 Bay Area Playwright's Festival Finalist, a 2023 Orchard Project Episodic Lab Finalist, a Royal Family Productions 2022 Emerging Artist, a member of Access Theater Writers Group (2021 – 2022), Columbia University’s TV Writing Summer Intensive (2013) and a member of Fresh Ground Pepper’s BRB Retreat (2022)

BFA: Conservatory of Theater Arts at SUNY Purchase, MFA: The New School for Drama

Sarah Young - Director

Sarah Young believes in powerful, transformative storytelling through radical empathy and curiosity. She is an award-winning director and filmmaker, whose work challenges societal norms.

Her first short film In Case We Get Found (2020) was inspired by her father’s experience as a survivor of the Umpqua Community College mass shooting and has won several awards including the Audience Award for Suspense at the McMinnville Short Film Fest. Her next film Counting (2021) which explores mental health and OCD, has won a number of awards and was a selection of Cannes Film Festival Short Film Corner.