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New York City-based Conch Shell Productions is collaborating with Honolulu-based Kumu Kahua Theater to present the second annual Reset Series - a remote collaboration featuring live streamed performances (followed by Q&A’s) on July 24th & July 31st at 8PM EST/ 7PM CT / 2PM HST.

This July, Reset Series 2021 will feature nine new short plays written by Caribbean Diaspora, and Asian American and Pacific Islander playwrights that explore the courage and strength of women when faced with challenges. Featured Reset Series 2021 playwrights include Tanya Perez, Hannah-Ii-Epstein, Phanesia Pharel, Lee A. Tonouchi, Gretchen Suárez-Peña, Kimiye Everard, Jeannie Barroga, L. Trey Wilson, and Michelle De Joya.

Reset Series 2021 is partially funded by a grant from the 2021 NYSCA-A.R.T./New York Creative Opportunity Fund (A Statewide Theatre Regrant Program).

Live Streamed on July 24th, 2021:
“The A Word” by Hannah-Ii-Epstein
Emily watches her new roommate Amanda's feminist blog and can't control the goddess within her.

“Denial in Okinawa” by Lee A. Tonouchi
In this political allegory when a U.S. soldier strikes up an unwanted conversation with a Okinawan woman, how does she get him to leave?


“Surge” by Tanya Perez
A couple going through a divorce is stuck in the very last place they thought possible: a Florida motel room in the middle of a vicious hurricane. Will they make it out alive?

“Inheritance” by Kimiye Everard
A daughter away at college has a momentous and revealing monthly FaceTime call with her mother.

“Thank You” by Phanesia Pharel
A young woman enters a hospital, not to seek a patient but to thank someone who left her behind.