DENNIS
YUEH-YEH
LI
director / playwright / performer
DENNIS
YUEH-YEH
LI
director / playwright / performer
DENNIS
YUEH-YEH
LI
director / playwright / performer

SCENES FROM INTERIOR CHINATOWN
Museum of Chinese in America
April, 2025
written by Charles Yu
conceived & directed by Dennis Yueh-Yeh Li
Andre Chan as WILLIS WU | Pascal Phoa as OLDER BROTHER | Malachi Beasely as MILES TURNER| Olivia De Jager as SARAH GREEN | Ron Brice as JUDGE/DIRECTOR| Samantha Potrykus as PROSECUTOR/PA | Andy Law as NARRATOR
Willis Wu doesn’t perceive himself as the protagonist in his own life: he’s merely Generic Asian Man. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son, but always he is relegated to a prop. Yet every day, he leaves his tiny room in a Chinatown SRO and enters the Golden Palace restaurant, where Black and White, a procedural cop show, is in perpetual production. He’s a bit player here, too, but he dreams of being Kung Fu Guy—the most respected role that anyone who looks like him can attain. Or is it?
A dynamic performance brings selected acts from Interior Chinatown to life. Featuring an ensemble of actors, the program transforms MOCA’s exhibitions into a living stage, offering an immersive theatrical experience.






