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A twelve song, five person musical song cycle investigating the many uses of the word Line: its different meanings, what it suggests, the power it has.

While teaching his son how to fish, a young dad wonders which is most valuable: a fat juicy rainbow trout or just the time spent with his son.   Elsewhere, a woman sits in her bathroom pondering the life she might not have as she waits for the results of a pregnancy test. Still elsewhere an Asian dancer is auditioning for a chorus line slot in an Orientalist and fundamentally racist musical and ponders if she's just suffering for her art or is some kind of cultural traitor...

Each song is self-contained but inherently connected to the rest through the exploration of the lines we cross, the lines we draw, the lines we are descended from.

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A nameless novelist arrives in New York intent on getting his first book published. As he recounts his daily misadventures in a series of letters to his girl back home, we see through his eyes the colorful, eccentric, vibrant and wildly bizarre characters that make up his new life, and the tragic events that make up his old one.

With music and lyrics by Timothy Huang and book by Timothy Huang in collaboration with Elizabeth Lucas, this one act, one actor musical

"...boasts masterful plot- and character-driven songs and comedic set pieces" with ballads that"have a haunting, melodic quality that seems torn from the annals of the Great American Songbook, populated by such folks as George Gershwin and Harold Arlen." - Ron Cohen, Backstage

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One Asian American's journey of self-discovery on the eve of one of the worst earthquakes in Taiwanese history. 

"...a funny yet touching show about cultural identity and the search for meaning in life [which] brings a new voice to the musical theatre that makes you sit up and pay attention"
- Warren Hoffman, Talkin' Broadway

With book, music and lyrics by Timothy Huang, this full length musical was a runner up for the 2004 National Music Theatre Network's New Voices Prize, and later received its premiere production at the inaugural New York Musical Theatre Festival, in 2004 where it was eventually voted by audiences as a Top 5 Audience Favorite.

Cover design by Helen Jen

"I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus." 

Even mommies have dreams.  Some love being wives and mothers, and some aspire to be the next Mrs. Claus, and to get out of their lonely, underappreciated  existences.

Written in five days as part of the Raw Impressions Musical Theatre Workshop with book and lyrics by Catherine Ward, and music by Timothy Huang, this three singer, ten minute musical was performed at La Mama ETC in fall of 2003.

An American astronaut stands on the surface of Mars as he watches his space ship slowly drift away.  With but minutes of air left to breathe, he triumphantly plants a flag, claiming the entire planet for the United States of America and declaring himself "The First Martian". 

And then he meets one...

Conceived at the New Dramatists Group with resident playwright Liz Duffy Adams and composer Timothy Huang as part of the Nautilus Music Theatre Composer/Librettist Studio, this one act, two person musical was produced as a reading at Dixon Place's Warning: Not For Broadway or the Met Either festival in 2003.

A pigeon on the verge of suicide gets talked down by a seemingly benevolent cockroach on a rooftop in New York City. 

This ten minute musical with music by Carl Fernstrum and book and lyrics by Timothy Huang was originally written at the New York University Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program and will soon be a computer animated film by Howard Hsu.

Cover design by Jerone Hsu

"This is the story of four people in a year of great change," the nameless boy sings,
"How we shed tears of pain for tears of joy.  This is their story, and I am their boy."

With music and lyrics by Timothy Huang, this full length musical experiment about six "strangers who are friends, who really aren't at all" explores love, sacrifice, history, family and what it means to really sing. 

Never produced on a stage, So Far So Good's legacy can be found (if you're one of the lucky few) in a concept recording featuring Cindy Cheung, Jennifer K. Eng,  Timothy Huang, Peter Kim, Thomas C. Kouo, and Alex Lee Tano marking Timothy's entrance into writing with laughter and love,  heart and hope.