Outreach Initiative

September 19, 2024 (Stratford Festival)
October 5, 2024 (Shaw Festival)

Connect with other emerging Asian Canadian artists and spend the day with the fu-GEN team as we watch Salesman in China (Stratford Festival) and Snow in Midsummer and The Orphan of Chao (Shaw Festival). Talk backs, meet-the-artists, dinner, and transportation is all provided.

This initiative is now closed. Thank you to all who participated!

Co-Production with PNSNV in association with Buddies in Bad Times Theatre’s “Genrefuck Festival”

May 14-May 31, 2025

T'was the night before Christmas at a strip club in Montreal when Honey is phoned by her long-estranged mother at the start of her shift: how will she get through the rest of her shift while juggling the memories, angst and wacky scenarios that get stirred up?

Never Walk Alone is a solo-live performance piece at the intersections of pole dance and theatre around identification, connection and expectations: it's a strange attempt at a heartwarming Christmas tale in the only way creator Julie Phan knows how.

Development Workshop

Spring 2025

Based on the St. Louis World Fair of 1904 where over 1,000 Filipinos were imported to America to be featured in a human zoo, we follow the story of two Filipina women and one Filipina girl lost to its history who remain buried 13,000 kilometres away from home. 

twice blessed is an oddly absurdist, Beckett-like story. With a stage covered in soil and a god eating dog, these three characters find family and joy in one another among their simulacrum of home.

twice blessed has been in development with fu-GEN since 2022.

Annual Playwrights Unit & Community Celebration

June 2025

This tradition started even before fu-GEN was founded in 2002. This was when our artists would gather themselves into their friends' kitchens to listen to each other's works-in-progress and share in a meal together. Keeping with this tradition, Kitchen Potluck is a celebration of new Asian Canadian plays-in-development. We gather publicly, and read excerpts from some works-in-progress by the Kitchen Cohort which has been working on their play for the month of June.

We celebrate with a huge Potluck at the end for all our guests. This is a final season celebration that everyone in our community looks forward to!