For Blue Lotus (or, When Anna May Met Marlene)
Filipino American playwright/composer AJ Layague (she/her/hers) has degrees in music from Stanford University, CalArts, and UC San Diego, and studied playwriting at East West Players in Los Angeles. Her play Cowgirl Katarungan’s Recipe for Adobo received a 2022 Finalist Prize in the FMM Fellowship for Works in Heightened Language Competition at Synecdoche Works as well as a 2023 Larking House Theatre Company Playwrights Intensive workshop and reading, and was a finalist for the 2024 Judith Royce Award for Excellence in Playwriting, and a semi-finalist for the 2024 O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. She was a 2023 Puffin Foundation Artist, a four-time semi-finalist for the Eugene O’Neill Music Theater Conference, and premiered new work (all in rhyming verse) at the 2023 PanAsian NuWorks Festival in NYC. Her musical Lucy Larcom is a finalist in the 2024 New Musical Project and had a staged reading in August 2024 in Boulder Colorado.
Website: http://www.layague.com/
