Registration will open on Friday, April 3 at 12 PM.
by Edison Hong
Showtimes
Friday, April 24, 3:30 PM
Friday, April 24, 8 PM
Saturday, April 25, 3:30 PM
Miles, a neuroscientist PhD student, studies Australian Zebra Finches and how they learn to sing, but his finch, Teal 53, stopped singing. As he tries to get his bird to sing again, Miles thinks about the songs of his own life, the ones passed down to him and the one he composes for himself.
About the Playwright
Edison Hong is a playwright and composer whose work has been performed at 54 Below, Joe’s Pub, the Park Avenue Armory, as well as internationally in Seoul, South Korea and São Paulo, Brazil. He is an inaugural fellow of the University of Chicago’s STAGE Labs, a Richie Jackson Fellow, and a NYU-Prague Graduate Research Initiative Fellow. He is currently in the MFA playwriting program at Columbia University.
About the New Plays Festival
Columbia University School of the Arts presents a festival of new plays written by the 2026 Columbia MFA Playwriting Cohort. The esteemed faculty who nurtured these students, including Tony©, Pulitzer, and Obie Award winners such as James Ijames, Lynn Nottage, Rogelio Martinez, Blair Singer, Noelle Vinas, Charles L. Mee, Michael Korie, David Auburn, Leslie Ayvazian, and David Henry Hwang, invite everyone to experience these innovative new playwrights.
Organized by James Ijames, Theatre.