PLAYWRIGHT & AUTHOR
GREG LAM
Full-Length Plays
Greg's award-winning full-length plays dazzle readers and audiences alike with theatrical, compelling, and provocative works made for the stage. To discuss production rights, please Contact Me or see my author's page at Broadway Play Publishing.
Last Ship to Proxima Centauri
A cautionary sci-fi tale of American refugees arriving at their new home
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The world has become uninhabitable. The last escape ship from Earth arrives to their new home centuries after all the others. They are not prepared for what they find there.
THE LAST SHIP TO PROXIMA CENTAURI asks us examine 21st Century America through the lens of futurist neo-colonialism, 2500 years after the last episode of "Friends".
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For more about LAST SHIP, click here​
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This play contains recorded sections of the announcements of the spaceship's computer system. Below, listen to some of the audio clips we put together for the reading at Company One on June 1, 2019. Audio talent courtesy of Allyson Lazar... and Google Translate.
Repossessed
A sci-fi parable and identity, technology, and morality.
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What would happen to our world if anyone could choose to remix and rewrite their memories and personalities?
Rich and Gretchen seem to have the ideal marriage, until they learn that it was manufactured by a mysterious biotech company which installed it into their brains. Because they can no longer afford this service, the company must repossess their improvements.
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“Like the best science fiction, REPOSSESSED creates a world with an inner consistency and logic and with important things to say about our own—in this case about consciousness, memory, and how much we’re willing to sacrifice to get what we want.
And the concerns of the characters (are experiences/emotional connections meaningful if they are “virtual”?) are compelling and frighteningly contemporary.
The structure of the play is, even as a reader, mesmerizing, moving from scenes to interludes that gives us glimpses below the surface of the characters and back in a fascinating and compelling way. Stunning, rich work."
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-John Minigan, playwright and judge for the Lotus Lee Foundation New Work Initiative.
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"In addition to powerful acting by some of the area’s best thespians, the play boasts one of the more intriguing themes to cross the boards in Southwest Florida since, perhaps, Theatre Conspiracy’s production of Jennifer Haley’s THE NETHER in 2016...."
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-Tom Hall, artswfl.com
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Chaplin & Keaton on the Set of Limelight
Art, love, life, and politics through the eyes of the two masters of silent comedy.
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What would it be like to witness two geniuses at work?
Silent Comedy legends Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton worked together only once, on Chaplin's last movie before being exiled from the United States. For the deeply autobiographical Limelight, Chaplin cast the down on his luck Keaton to play a small part in his nostalgic story of an old comedian doing one last performance. This play imagines what it might have been like on that set while exploring the lives of these two titans of cinema.
CHAPLIN AND KEATON ON THE SET OF LIMELIGHT explores the tension between the desire to entertain and the need to fight for a greater world in politically dangerous times. What responsibilities does an artist have beyond bringing a smile to the face of an audience?
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“Absolute magic to think of two Hollywood legends, each with radically divergent views on the nature of art and the role of film in people's lives on the world stage, and how it resonates even louder today. Keaton's explanation of comedy gave me chills. Well done."
-Kevin Cirone, NPX user