Yoko’s Husband’s Killer’s Japanese Wife, Gloria

Did Yoko Ono really break up The Beatles? Was Gloria Abe Chapman somehow responsible for John Lennon’s murder? Why do all these egotistical white guys marry Asian women? That’s weird, right? These questions keep Ruby Okamoto up at night. She‘s getting answers—even if she has to summon all of Asian America into her insomniatic fever dream.

Feb 2025 — awarded NAMT Grant
Jan-Feb 2025 — artist residency at the Johnny Mercer Songwriters Grove in East Haddam, CT

Nov 2024 — workshop at Theatre Latté Da in Minneapolis
Aug 2024 — awarded a MAP Fund Artist Grant
Jul 2024 — artist residency at the Rhinebeck Writers Retreat in Pine Plains, NY
Mar 2024 — performance at the Maestra Amplify concert at Sony Hall in NYC

Dec 2023 — awarded the Vivace Award by the Bret Adams & Paul Reisch Foundation
Oct 2023 — industry presentation at the NAMT Festival of New Musicals in NYC
Sep 2023 — workshop at the 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle
Jul 2023 — workshop at the O'Neill National Music Theater Conference in Waterford, CT
Jul 2023 — artist residency at the Orchard Project Performance Lab in Saratoga Springs, NY
Jun 2023 — 29-hour reading at the National Opera Center in NYC, sponsored by the 5th Avenue Theatre, the Civilians' R&D Group, and NAMT

Nov 2022 — 29-hour reading at Playwright's Horizons in NYC, sponsored by the 5th Avenue Theatre
June 2022 — table reading at the 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle
May 2021 — Commissioned by the 5th Avenue Theatre