WINTERFEST: Double-Bill of FULL CONTACT and X#*! YOU VERY MUCH, MOM

A double-bill run of two new solo performances featuring Asian American theatre artists, including the National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere of FULL CONTACT, written and performed by Ariel Estrada (Off-B’way: DOUBLE FALSEHOOD, Letter of Marque; Fellow, The Orchard Project and BRIC Media Lab) and directed by Gaven D. Trinidad (Finalist, 2025 Bay Area Playwrights Festival; Finalist, 2025 O’Neill National Playwrights Conference); and a developmental workshop of X#*! YOU VERY MUCH, MOM by Đavid Lee Huỳnh (Off-B’way: BUS STOP; NAATCO/Transport Group/Classic Stage Company; Project YZ Fellow, Yangtze Repertory Theatre), directed by Nana Dakin (B’way: Associate Director, MARY JANE, Manhattan Theatre Club).

Presented by Leviathan Lab, Second Generation Productions, TLAB SHARES, and Mixed Asian Media.

WinterFest will also feature a FREE, 90-minute staged reading of the new horror/satire BLOOD/SUCKER by Anamaria Guerzon (Scratchpad Series Playwright, The Playwrights Realm), directed by Nicholas Polonio (Assistant Director, B’way: SLAVE PLAY) on Monday, November 24 at 7:00 p.m.

ABOUT FULL CONTACT: After a week alone in his apartment, Filipino American Ariel Estrada* unravels under the weight of his memories: a violent cult, a lost faith, and the echo of his late father’s demands. Caught between guilt and survival, he fights to take the first step toward healing before his mind pulls him under.

FULL CONTACT is produced at Leviathan Lab as part of a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere. Other Partner Theaters are Perseverance Theatre (Juneau, Alaska) and Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA). For more information, please visit nnpn.org. This NNPN Rolling World Premiere is open for reviews by critics.

ABOUT X#*! YOU VERY MUCH, MOM: Stand-up comedy meets TED Talk meets dark family secrets. With whimsy, sardonic humor, and heart, Đavid Lee Huỳnh* shares how the effects of French colonialism shaped Vietnam, rippled out, and made it so X#*!ing hard for his mom to say “I love you.” Presented by Second Generation Productions in association with Leviathan Lab. This developmental workshop is NOT open for reviews by critics.

The runtime is approximately two hours plus one 15-minute intermission.

ABOUT BLOOD/SUCKER: Ryan, a high school social studies teacher, is tired. He’s been spending late nights grading homework, as well as fending off parental complaints about his Asian-American History class, who claim that he is using ‘Critical Race Theory’ to indoctrinate the students. Then Hillary, the Principal, begins to take an interest in his class. And the students are beginning to act very strange…BLOOD/SUCKER is a bloody political satire/horror play about the public school system, and those it feeds off of. Presented by Leviathan Lab.