*Please see note from writer on ability to change race of performer.*
Ping is a young Asian American man who has a deep-rooted love for musicals. Not for the story and not for the music but for the connection that it has created between him and his sister that he has no seen in years. It was the comfort that it made him feel brought him out of his shell but the moment that his sister put him in that yellow dress he felt, whole. He couldn’t find the words to explain how wearing this dress made him feel but it was in this moment that he had found his comfort in life. His story is one of fighting at a young age to be the person he had always known himself to be. Through his beautifully told story we see the most intimate pains of a person who was able to maneuver one of the most challenging fights of their life, gaining acceptance for who they are. Ping was a gay man living in a country that was not accepting of him even as a young boy just playing dress up. But it is after his father publicly beats him and he is put in a conversion therapy hospital, to “fix him,” that his sister decides enough is enough. She convinces his mother to get him out of there and the three escape to America. It is then that she leaves him for good to figure out how to maneuver this life on his own. Their bond is the most important love of his life that allowed him to finally be able to then love himself freely. Freely love the life he’s allowed to have as a gay Asian man in America. The life that he found himself fighting for at a young age. The life that he never thought he would be able to live… his own life, in freedom. (*This story is a universal story. The race of the performer may be edited to reflect a different race as needed, the writer gives permission for this.)
