The Last Emperor of Flushing’s Final Manifesto

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Alvin Eng is playwright, performer and adjunct Professor of Creative Writing on the English Department faculties of John Jay, BMCC and Fordham. He will be reading from “THE LAST EMPEROR of FLUSHING’S FINAL MANIFESTO–An Imperial Memoir in Queens English”–the prose adaptation of his acclaimed memoir monologues, The Flushing Cycle and The Last Emperor of Flushing.

The Flushing Cycle was featured in a Museum of The Chinese in the Americas exhibition and excerpts were published in Performing Arts Journal (MIT Press). The Last Emperor of Flushing was honored with a grant from the Urban Artists Initiative, and the title character persona inspired a commentary on NPR’s All Things Considered. Eng has performed these pieces at NYC venues such as Urban Stages, Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, Dixon Place, Immigrants Theatre Project and Queens Theatre in the Park’s 1st Annual NYC Asian Cultural Festival.

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Alvin Eng is a native NYC playwright, performer 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 May 2022 by Fordham University Press. Eng is the author and editor of the oral history/play anthology, Tokens? The NYC Asian American Experience on Stage. No Passport Press recently published Three Trees, the first of his Portrait Plays series of historical dramas about artists. He was awarded a 2022 LMCC Creative Engagement grant for a “Hong Kong Handover: 25 Years Later” symposium in conjunction with his acoustic punk raconteur solo show, Here Comes Johnny Yen Again (or How I Kicked Punk).