BOSTON, MA — CHUANG Stage will present the East Coast premiere of My Home on the Moon by Minna Lee, directed by cara hinh, at the Boston Center for the Arts, Plaza Theatre, running May 23 through June 13, 2026, with a press opening on Wednesday, May 27 at 7:30 PM. This Boston production will feature new revisions by Lee created specifically for the East Coast premiere, further marking the run as a major event for press, critics, and audiences following some of the most exciting Asian American new work being made right now.
From the windows of a run-down pho restaurant, Mai watches her neighborhood get gentrified, storefront by storefront. Just as the restaurant seems destined to close, a mysterious tech consultant arrives, helping Mai put the noodle shop on a path to glory. But as Mai discovers the truth of this delectable new reality, she is taken on an unexpected adventure full of Vietnamese cuisine, love, and corrupt technology. Blending speculative comedy with the lived realities of displacement, queer identity, and survival, My Home on the Moon arrives in Boston with unusual urgency.
The production also brings together a team with strong national and regional profiles. Lee’s play originally premiered at San Francisco Playhouse, where it won the San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for Best Original Script. Director cara hinh, who returns to Boston for the production, is the Associate Artistic Director at Indiana Repertory Theatre and has worked with theatres around the country including Arena Stage, Atlantic Theatre, Ars Nova, Berkeley Rep, Ma-Yi, MCC, and Working Theatre. The design team for CHUANG Stage’s production includes Hien Nguyen, Qingan Zhang, Kat C. Zhou, Amanda Gibson, and Eric Tran.
For Minna Lee, the Boston production is deeply personal as well as politically resonant. They said:
“It means absolutely everything to me that My Home on the Moon is being supported by a producing team of asian theater makers. This play came from an enormous love for asians everywhere, especially my fellow queer viets, so to be able to celebrate this story with Boston’s asian community is extremely special. Not only that, I get to share this experience with my friend/director, cara hinh, who is tremendously talented! Aside from gay asian fun, I’m also curious to see how the play interacts with Boston’s current relationship with big tech and gentrification, both of which have led to atrocious rent prices. I look forward to learning from local groups that are organizing to make this city a more accessible and affordable place to live.”
That same combination of joy, community, and civic urgency is echoed by cara hinh, whose relationship to both the material and the producing company gives the project added depth. hinh said:
“I am thrilled to get back to Boston and CHUANG Stage, a theatre whose work is so important to the city and the American Theatre. I am always grateful when I get to work in community with my fellow queer Viet creatives and honored to help bring Minna’s relevant and joyous play to life.”
For CHUANG Stage, the production continues the company’s investment in formally adventurous Asian American work that speaks directly to the present moment. Executive Director Alison Yueming Qu said:
“We’re over the moon to be producing the East Coast premiere of My Home on the Moon by Minna Lee, and to welcome back cara hinh as director. Minna’s writing is wildly imaginative and fiercely of-the-moment—I’d even call it explosive, a high-flying theatrical adventure Boston truly needs. We’re also thrilled to be joined by extraordinary collaborators, including Kat C. Zhou on lighting and Hien on sound. At its heart, this play honors matriarchs—the people who keep family businesses alive, whether by blood or chosen family—while asking what it means to preserve our humanity in the age of AI.”
The East Coast cast of My Home on the Moon includes Lee Baladejo as Beau, Christina R. Chan as Lan, Emma Na-yun Downs as Vera, Belle Lê as Mai, and Jenny S. Lee as Gigi.
True to CHUANG Stage’s mission, the production will be offered through the company’s Pay-As-You-Are ticketing model, with prices ranging from $0 to $75. The model is designed to provide radical access to theatre for working-class immigrant communities and communities of color, including those historically underrepresented among Boston’s arts audiences, while inviting attendees to share in the collective responsibility of keeping the arts accessible for everyone.
Performance Information
My Home on the Moon
East Coast Premiere produced by CHUANG Stage
By Minna Lee
Directed by cara hinh
Previews: May 23–26, 2026
Press Opening: May 27, 2026
Closing: June 13, 2026
Location: Plaza Theatre at the Boston Center for the Arts
Tickets: Pay-As-You-Are ($0–$85)
About the Artists
Minna Lee (they/them/she/her) is a Hmong-Vietnamese American writer and animator whose work takes audiences into whimsical worlds full of queer joy and strange magic. They are a recipient of the Dramatists Guild’s 2024 Lanford Wilson Award, a 2025 New Georges Audrey Resident, and a MacDowell Fellow. Their work includes My Home on the Moon, Last Gold, and ACTING STRANGER.
cara hinh (they/she) is a queer, fat, Việt theatre maker and Hoosier. They are the Associate Artistic Director at Indiana Repertory Theatre and have worked with theatres around the country as a director and educator.
About CHUANG Stage
Founded in 2018, CHUANG Stage is Boston’s Asian American professional non-profit theatre company, cultivating joyful and radical pan-Asian stories that pioneer translingual activism in the arts. The company is currently a resident theatre company at the Boston Center for the Arts and is nationally recognized for multilingual storytelling and bold artistic collaborations.
