LINE UP

a new play by Kenneth Keng

directed by Annaporva Green

in association with ¡Oye! Group

A troop of Philippine mothers is recruited by an imperial power to serve as frontline soldiers. If they survive one year of military service, they and their families will be granted full citizenship and allowed to live in relative safety and prosperity.

about the artists

Kenneth Keng (Playwright) is a New York-based Filipino-Chinese playwright and performer who makes work about falling in love with a culture devouring his own. Selected honors include: 2026/27 Artist-in-Residence at ¡OYE! Group, 2026 Artist-in-Residence at the North American Cultural Laboratory, 2026 New York State Council on the Arts/NYSCA Grantee, 2025/26 Artist-in-Residence at the cell theatre NYC, 2025 Princess Grace Fellowship (Semifinalist), 2024 Carlos Palanca Memorial Award for Literature, 2024 The Civilians/Princeton Next Forever Initiative (Finalist), 2023/24 Artist-in-Residence at the University Settlement/Performance Project. In NYC, Kenneth’s work has been selected for staging at Ars Nova, A.R.T./New York, Brick, Brick Aux, the cell, Chain, JACK, Kraine, LIFE World, Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, Maker’s Space, and Speyer Hall. They are a current member of the Dramatists Guild of America and attained their MFA in Theatre in 2023 from Sarah Lawrence College.

Annaporva Green (Director) is an Indian-born, Floridian-raised, New York-based theater artist. Her directing credits include Kenneth Keng’s AMA (Target Margin Theater), Brought Up (University Settlement), and Line Up (North American Cultural Lab). She has also served as Associate Director on Ben Heineman Jr.’s Terror Is the Order of the Day (The Flea Theater) and SOUR MILK’s DIRT (The Tank, 2026 remount). As an actor, she recently made her Off-Broadway debut as Laura in Scarlett Grace McCarthy’s The Betrothed at WP Theater and played Viola in Twelfth Night with Tier 5 at El Barrio’s Artspace. She has puppeteered with Processional Arts Workshop for Little Amal Walks New York, The Reverie, and the WinteRamble. She also puppeteered with Basil Twist for the reopening of David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center.

She previously worked at the cell theatre with fellow Artist-in-Residence Joe Porter-Rivera as stage manager for Some People Need To Die. She currently serves as Associate Coordinator for La MaMa Umbria International and as an Assistant Teacher of Stage Combat and Intimacy in Performance at Atlantic Theater School, NYU Tisch, and The American Musical and Dramatic Academy.

¡Oye! Group is a Bushwick-based creative incubator for artists, students, and community members of all ages, both local and immigrant to New York City. Our work is grounded in the act of listening that gave us our company name: we curate art that sparks a dialogue over the political and social issues that our community tells us are critical to them. We present an eclectic mix of theater, dance, poetry, music, video installations, and film through festivals and productions. We work with emerging artists to create, play, and grow in an environment that challenges and supports them, and we engage youth and adults alike through high-quality arts education that provides them with the tools to generate forward-thinking art that compliments the work on our stages.

(illustration by Emma Callahan)