Last Ship to Proxima Centauri by Greg Lam

A sci-fi dark comedy

directed by Cory Molner

The Earth has become uninhabitable. The last escape ship from Earth (Seattle, to be exact) arrives to its new home planet centuries after all the others. The pilots are not prepared for what they find there.

LAST SHIP TO PROXIMA CENTAURI asks us to examine 21st Century America through the lens of futurist neo-colonialism, 2000 years after the end of Must See TV.

Greg Lam is a playwright, screenwriter, and board game designer who lives in the Greater Boston area. He is the creator of the Boston Podcast Players podcast which presents excerpted readings of new full length plays by and interviews with Boston playwrights since 2016.

!n 2019, Greg was named an Artistic Fellow of the Dramatic Arts by the Massachusetts Cultural Council. He also was named the inaugural Pao Fellow by Company One PlayLab.

Greg is the co-founder of the Asian-American Playwright Collective. His full-length play REPOSSESSED received its world premiere at Theatre Conspiracy in Fort Myers, FL in 2018 after readings in Boston, Seattle, and Connecticut. It won the Lotus Lee Foundation New Work Initiative and the Theatre Conspiracy New Play Contest. His full-length play LAST SHIP TO PROXIMA CENATAURI received readings from Company One and Fresh Ink Theatre in 2019.

Greg was a member of the 2016 Company One PlayLab for the development of Boston area playwrights. His works have been produced by Company One, Fresh Ink Theatre, Pork Filled Productions, The Depot, The Boston Theatre Marathon, Open Theatre Project, Other World Theatre Paragon Festival, theatre@first, Navigators Theater, Fantastic.Z, The Pulp Stage, Ixion Theatre Ensemble, Eagle and Beaver Ensemble, Wishing Wind Creations, 4th Street Theatre, Midwest Dramatists Conference, The Best of All Possible Podcast, Aching Dogs Theatre Company, Shadow Boxing Theatre, and many others.