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Linda Faigao-Hall

LINDA FAIGAO-HALL  

 Nationality:    Asian American
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Linda Faigao-Hall has written fourteen plays, all but three of which have been produced. Before joining Starfish Theatreworks, Linda had only been produced by Asian-American theatres. Since becoming a member of the Mainstage Company she has been produced on our Mainstage three times; took our company class to learn how to teach our Literacy-Through-Theatre Method; and joined the faculty of our Teen Training program. Linda is currently at work setting a play we commissioned last season, about a Philappina mail-order bride, to music. She has now been produced by such theatres as The Working Theatre; Lark Theatre Company; Expanded arts; East West Players; Ma-Yi Ensemble; Henry Street Theatre arts Center; and the Pan Asian Repertory Theatre.
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 Americans Or How We Met         A-Word, The         Duet         Dying In Boulder         Female Heart, The         God, Sex And Blue Water         Interview, The         Lay Of The Land         Men Come And Go         Pidgin' Hole         Requiem         Salad Days         Sparrow         St. Nicola Cycle, The         State Without Grace         Walking Iron         Woman From The Other Side Of The World

Americans Or How We Met

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A-Word, The

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a mother is confronted by her son about her past.

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Diverse City Theater    2005

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Duet

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Two Asian-American siblings are up for a music scholarship - but only one of them can get it.

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Ma-Yi Theater, New York    -

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Dying In Boulder

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Ensemble Studio Theatre presents Project 35, A festival celebrating their 35th Anniversary season. It consists of concert readings of 35 new plays in 35 days by 35 E.S.T. members And guest Artists

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Female Heart, The

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a Woman at Heart revisits "Smokey Mountain, "the infamous garbage dump outside Manila. although demolished in 1993, it has been replaced by several dumpsites that still exist today. In July 1996, one of them, in the city of Payatas, collapsed killing hundreds of people living at its base. The play takes place in the late 1980's and tells the story of two siblings living in the so-called "Smokey. "When anghel, the elder sibling, succumbs to a life-threatening disease, adelfa, his sister, decides to become a mail-order bride to a Brooklyn man who is willing -- at a price -- to send money to pay for anghel's medical expenses.
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Nee a Woman at Heart) (Diverse City Theater Co.    2004

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God, Sex And Blue Water

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This unconventional farce about religion and family love, set in the Filipino community of Hoboken, focuses on the Kintanar family's attempts to assimilate in America. Laling, a deeply religious woman, plans on crucifying herself during the Easter pasyon, which puts her in conflict with the local parish priest. Her brother Dadong runs a successful business and tries to discourage her. Her daughter, a Clarita, a healer with a secret, has just arrived in the US from a childhood in a convent, and has met Brian, an American "master of the universe" badly in need of salvation.
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Women's Project    1997

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Women's Project and Productions

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Interview, The

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a Filipino woman flees to New York to escape her past

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Ma-Yi Theater, New York    -

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Lay Of The Land

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Men Come And Go

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Pidgin' Hole

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Women's Project & Productions, NY    1996

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Requiem

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Salad Days

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Three short plays: "Duet" is a one-act play about two talented and accomplished Asian-American siblings competing for a music scholarship offered by their clan which only one can win. "The Interview" is one-act play about a Filipino woman fleeing from her painful past in the Philippines looking for an apartment in New York City. "Salad Days" a 15-minute play set in a restaurant about a woman who must absolutely have the perfect meal.
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Sparrow

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New York artist Tina has returned to the Philippines after ten years, eight months and twenty-seven days, in search of her childhood friend Cris. But when she finds her, Tina discovers that Cris has become entangled with The Sparrows, a pseudo-terrorist organization, bent on bringing down the corrupt Capitalist Regime. Now they must both face the choices that life has forced upon them and the consequences of their lives apart. But before Tina is allowed to go home Cris has one more surprise for her long lost friend.
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part of Coming Home

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Lion Theatre, NY    2008

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St. Nicola Cycle, The

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The St. Nicola Cathedral in Italy is the focus of The St. Nicola Cycle, two new short plays being given their world-premiere productions by Starfish Theatreworks. Pusong Babae (Heart of a Woman) by Linda Faigo-Hall is about a young Filipina who travels to America as a mail-order bride in order to support her mother and ailing brother. Double Cross by Gail Noppe-Brandon is about the plight of a 49-year-old nun who becomes pregnant following a sexual assault.
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Starfish Theatreworks    2001

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State Without Grace

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Walking Iron

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Walking Iron explores homophobia in a working class setting: a gay iron worker outs himself on the construction site and to his straight best friend. Seen from the iron worker gang's perspective, it examines homosexuality from the point of view of sympathetically drawn heterosexual working class men, forced to confront their own feelings about homosexuality, friendship and loyalty..
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Working Theatre    2002

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Play/Drama. - - Gay, full length

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Woman From The Other Side Of The World

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The disillusionment of escaping a troubled past in an adopted culture emerges when Emiliya, a seemingly Americanized Filipina, encounters Ines, her new yaya (nanny) and a "Woman From the Other Side of the World." Their oft comical confrontations gradually darken to reveal the world as well as the secrets of Emiliya's past.
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1st Produced:
David Hwang Theater, Los Angeles    1997

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East West Players

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Dramatic Publishing Company,    -

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