Late Blooming

LATE BLOOMING follows a closeted novelist Libao caught between his sexuality and his immigrant parents’ expectations. As his childhood sweetheart returns to a rapidly gentrifying Elmhurst, Queens, everything he’s buried is forced onto the surface. He then decides to write an auto-fiction, imagining himself as a straight man, following the path his parents have laid down for him, hoping this publication will help him come out to his parents.

What’s different about this project is that it’s not just a coming-out story. You will follow Libao’s parents, how they process and struggle to learn to understand. This play also gives a nod to the vibrant BIPOC queer culture that inspires many Asians and Asian Americans. It also intriguingly aligns with the progress of marriage equality in Taiwan.

This production is part of the Fresh Fruit Festival, which has championed and advocated for queer theater works for 22 years.