Dear John is a solo show based on a true story created and performed by Rachel Lin. It’s 2011, and for a certain recent graduate and actor-hopeful, things are not going…well. When a Facebook message from a mysterious stranger named John arrives, she’s forced to reckon with a past that comes hurtling back. Weaving together Facebook DMs, hand-written letters, recorded interviews, and anecdotes of living as an undocumented immigrant kid in NYC’s Chinatown, Dear John is documentary theater about the ways we try (and fail) to reach each other, over and over again.
Show runs: 70 minutes, no intermission
Friday, March 6 @ 7
Saturday, March 7 @ 2
Saturday, March 7 @ 7
Sunday, March 8 @7
Monday, March 9 @ 7
Wednesday, March 11 @ 7
Thursday, March 12 @ 7
Friday, March 13 @ 7
Saturday, March 14 @ 2
Saturday, March 14 @ 7
Sunday, March 15 @ 7
Monday, March 16 @ 7
Wednesday, March 18 @ 7
Thursday, March 19 @ 7
Rachel Lin (林嘉怡) is an actor, writer, and filmmaker from the UK, raised between Chinatowns. Her solo show Dear John has received support and development from the Brooklyn Arts Council, All For One Theater, IRT Theatre, the Museum of Chinese in America, and CulturePass. Her short film Great Listener has screened at Brooklyn Film Festival, Phoenix Film Festival, the Asian American International Film Festival, and more. As an actor, world premieres include: Women by Chiara Atik, Mary-Kate Olsen is in Love, Ajax by A.R. Gurney, and others. She played Detective Victoria Cho on season 2 of Law & Order: Organized Crime. Other TV: Black Cake, Pose, and Bull.