Eggshell; or Vỏ Trứng

Everything’s coming up roses at the Ly family’s Christmas Eve dinner. That is until Rose arrives, hoping to make a good impression, as she’s meeting her fiancé’s family for the first time. Despite her best efforts, the mood turns frigidly vicious when secrets are brought to light, forcing everyone to confront the fragility of their individual nature. Eggshell; or Vỏ Trứng tiptoes between farce, dark comedy, tragedy, and thriller as it follows a hauntingly dysfunctional family and unearths the fangs of internalized whiteness, self-acceptance, and the lengths we go to in order to survive.

Developmental History

  • Semi-finalist, National Playwrights Conference, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, 2025
  • Finalist, UNLEASHED Play Festival: workshop and staged reading, Pork Filled Productions — Jun 2025
  • Workshop and staged reading, More Más Marami Art — May/Jun 2024
  • Semi-finalist, 44th Annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival — 2021
  • Collegiate staged reading, Theatre Woks at University of California, Irvine — Jan 2020