by Rosie Narasaki
11th century ladies-in-waiting Murasaki Shikibu and Sei Shonagon are, to this day, two of Japan’s most beloved writers.
… They also kind of hated each other.
Unrivaled is a new play about friendship, heartbreak, and what it means to be a female artist. Perhaps most of all, it’s about how no matter how much things change, the more they stay the same… even after a thousand years.
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
Rosie Narasaki (she/her/hers) is a Los Angeles-based playwright and actor. Her acting highlights include In Love and Warcraft and Two Mile Hollow with Artists at Play, as well as a pre-Greta Gerwig turn as Amy in Playwright’s Arena’s multicultural transposition of Little Women. As a writer, her play Unrivaled has been workshopped with EST/LA, Artists at Play and the Road Theatre Company, and will have its world premiere with Playwrights’ Arena. Her other works have been developed and produced by MeetCute LA, Becky & Baldwin, hereandnow theatre company, and more. She is a member of EST/LA’s New West Playwrights and the IAMA Under 30 Theatre Lab, and she holds a BA in Creative Writing from Scripps College.
THE CAST
Teishi – Midori Francis
Murasaki – Kina Kantor
Sei – Jo Mei
Michinaga, et al – David Huynh
