Plays Shared in the Hui During 2025
- justinamattos
- Dec 19, 2025
- 3 min read
Updated: 2 days ago

During 2025, our hui continued meeting on the first and third Wednesday of each month, to read new plays of all lengths. Playwrights from as far away as Aotearoa, Australia, Japan, and the Philippines joined us, along with playwrights from throughout Hawaiʻi and the continental United States. Works read this year included:
1/8/25 | Poor Doug | Rex McGregor | Full Length | 2-4m, 5-9f, 1h (14 char.)
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1/22/25 | Hanafuda with Grandma | Diane Aoki | Short 2-act | 1f, 1m
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2/5/25 | On the Occasion of Hilo’s Next Tsunami | Randal McEndree | 1 hour? | 7f, 10m (can double-cast)
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2/19/25 | 6 Anti-Woke Satires: Gun Shy Unmelting the Pot Painting Targets Paint the Rainbow Black Call Me They Pride Cometh & Cometh & Overcometh |
John Wythe White Joyce Fontana Randy Otaka Normie Salvador William Manley Peter Grey |
10 min. 10 min. 10 min. 10 min. 10 min. 10 min. |
1m 3f 2m 8m 5f, 3m 3f, 3m
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3/5/35 | Wednesday’s Child | Sara Ward | Full Length | 4+f, 8+m
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3/18/25 | Āwili: Between Worlds | Nick Higginbotham | Full Length |
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4/2/25 | John and Emma | Marion Lyman-Mersereau | 1 ½ hour | 2+f, 15+m
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4/16/25 | Plights: Flight of the Crows Phony on a Twig Ambitious Cutlery Rabbit Warns Gannet Fruitful Ebook Meets Treebook Threatened Panda Fights Back | Rex McGregor | 7 short comedies |
2f, 1m 1f, 1 bud, 1 leaf 1f, 2m 1f, 1m 2f, 1m 2f, 2m 2f, 2m
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5/7/25 | Puakea’s Pieces: Follow the Moonlight The Last Dance The Girls with the ‘Ulu | Puakea Forester |
1-Act Monologue 1-Act |
1f, 3m 1f 7+f, 7+m, 2+h
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5/21/25 | Spam, Ken Doll, LeafBlower, 4 Short Plays: The Daring Escape of the Three Muscatels Adverbs of Frequency Presents How’d I Do? |
A.J. Layague Rachael Carnes J. Jackson R.P. Singletary |
10 min. 10 min. 10 min. 10 min. |
1f, 1m 1f, 1m 2f, 1m 2h
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6/4/25 | McEndree “Postcard Conversations”: Al-Zeimah: The Forgetful Terrorist Baby Jesus in the Strip Mall The Awareness App The Taliban and the Toyota | Randal McEndree |
5 min.
5 min. 5 min. 5 min. |
2m
1h 2m 2m
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6/18/25 | Rhyme & Reason, 5 Short Plays: Match.Commoner One Second Chance at the Kaulele Café Blue Lotus Lost Boy and Uncle: Romeo and Juliet Psyche, From the Latin for Soul |
Lori Miller Fox Normie Salvador AJ Layague Darrell H.Y. Lum Joyce Fontana |
10 min. 10 min. 10 min. 10 min. 10 min. |
3f, 2m 3f, 3m, 1h 2f 2m 2f
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7/2/25 | Kū Nei | Eric Stack | Full Length | 2-3f, 4m
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7/16/25 | Kalikimaka | Justina Mattos | Full Length | 2f, 3m
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8/6/25 | Expat | Jeannie Barroga | Full Length | 2f, 3m
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8/20/25 | The Japanese Strike Conspiracy of 1909 | James Parker | 3 hours | 16m, 6f
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9/3/25 | Shelter & Superpowers, Four Short Plays: Shelter in Place Change is Good I’m Not a Mindreader...Anymore Loss of Power |
Ruth Ann Howden Linda Pallotta Kerstyn Au Erin Moughon |
15 min. Monologue 10 min. 10 min. |
1f, 3m, 8h 1f 3f, 2m 1f, 1m
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9/17/25 | Hale ‘Ōhiʻa | Kauʻi Kaina | 2 Acts | 3f, 2m
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10/1/25 | The Apocalyptic Pigeon Effect | Ian Lactaoen | 10 min. | 6+m, 5+f
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10/1/25 | The Splintered Shotgun | Ian Lactaoen | 10 min. | 1f, 3+m
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10/1/25 | A Charmless Man in the Blur | Ian Lactaoen | 30 min. | 1+f, 8+m
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10/15/25 | Lest We Forget | Adapted from Miyoshi Ikeda’s play by Daniel Akiyama | 1 hour | 4m + playwright
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11/5/25 | Being Honest | Brian Johnston | 2 Acts (long) | 2f, 3m
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11/19/25 | Apocalypse and Aloha | Leroy Olen | Full Length | 4f, 3m
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12/3/25 | 5 Short Holiday Plays: Elven Revolt Thanksgiving Surprise Let Me Shoyu Next Door Nativity Grounding Santa |
James Parker Justina Mattos Justina Mattos Rex McGregor Rex McGregor |
10 min. 15 min. 10 min. 10 min. 10 min. |
4f, 3m 3f, 3m 2f 1f, 2m 1f, 1m
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12/17/25 | Prompt Deliveries (Excerpts): The Single K.App.A.Ch.I.N.O. Cat and Mouse Waiting in Ewa Bound Traffic on a Tuesday Afternoon I’ll Shoyu!!! AW, H(A.I.)LL NO! Bizarre Love Triangle | Randy Otaka |
10 min. 10 min. 10 min. 10 min.
10 min. 8-10 min. 10 min. |
3m 2f, 1h 2f, 2m 1f, 1m
3m 1f, 1m 2f, 1m |



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