ALVIN ENG is a native NYC playwright, memoirist, performer, acoustic punk rock raconteur and educator. His plays and performances have been seen Off-Broadway, throughout the U.S., as well as in Paris, Hong Kong and Guangzhou, China.His memoir, "OUR LAUNDRY, OUR TOWN: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond," was published in hard cover by Fordham University Press in May 2022 with a paperback release slated for October, 2023. "Our Laundry, Our Town" was covered by The New York Times, NPR/WNYC’s All of It with Alison Stewart and The Brian Lehrer Show, NY1 and CUNY-TV, among many others. The memoir chronicles growing up in a Chinese Hand Laundry in what was then one of the few immigrant Asian families in the Flushing, Queens, neighborhood of that singular universe that was NYC in the 1970s. After finding his personal and artistic voice through Asian American arts, activism, punk rock and theatre, Eng went on to play in punk bands as well as to become a playwright, author and performer. The memoir culminates in Hong Kong and China. There, Eng was invited by the U.S. Consulate, Guangzhou, to perform his solo performance work, "The Last Emperor of Flushing," in English, in his family’s ancestral Guangdong province. That performance was an extension of a Fulbright Specialist Devised Theatre/Oral History Residency that Eng co-conceived and directed with his wife, director/dramaturg Wendy Wasdahl, at City University of Hong Kong. In this devised theatre/oral history project, students wrote and performed English language plays in response to Thornton Wilder’s classic Americana play, “Our Town.” As Wilder spent part of his childhood in China, when his father was U.S. Consul General to Hong Kong and Shanghai, "Our Town" has many Chinese influences. The book has also been acquired for the collections of The New York Public Library and numerous public and academic libraries. Our Laundry, Our Town is also being taught in Asian American and Urban Studies courses at the City University of New York and other colleges and universities.THREE TREES, the first of Eng’s Portrait Plays series, was recently published by Obie Award-winning playwright Caridad Svich’s No Passport Press in 2021. This series examines the parallels between portraiture, history and power as manifested in the convergence of different disciplines, eras and cultures. Three Trees dramatizes the haunting relationship between renowned 20th century sculptor Alberto Giacometti and his primary muse/model of the 1950s, Japanese philosopher, Isaku Yanaihara. www.alvineng.com