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What a joy it has been getting to open this play! Definitely a bucket list show for me. Working beside so many brilliant comedians and clowns, how could one possibly not love it? Cheers to many more! ✨🧚🏴‍☠️

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THE AUNTIE PHO SIZZLE REEL 🍜🔥⛓️‍💥🍳🥵

The Auntie Pho Comedy Hour
an anti-f@$cist late night talk show

June 4-7, 2026 at Z Below in San Francisco, CA

written & performed by
@phillywongsteak
@tirumario
@aprilpascua
@alvinadrianlee
@aptly_engineerd
@snarq

feat. House Band @skiptheneedle
@vrandle
@kofybrown
@katie_cash_music

special guests
@ian.buddy
@kaikaibee_
@kochinarude
@lunchboxx___

tech
@tenuous_bandersnatch
@anthonyfrederickaranda

mutual aid leads
@drag_on_king
@sam.g.lh

supported by
@theatrebayareasf CA$H Grant
Art & Mayhem Collective
@tempestedbird
@zspacesf
and viewers like you

video/editing
@guyriggs
Phil Wong

song
“We Ain’t Never Goin Back” by Skip the Needle

conceived, produced, & directed by Phil Wong

Proshot coming soon 👀 🎥 🍿

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Z Space’s intrepid production team got trapped in our freight elevator this week during load in for our co-production of Pilgrimage with @goldenthreadplays. While everyone eventually got out alive, our team took the opportunity to hold our calendar meeting, and also highlight the upcoming feasibility study Z Space is conducting for future improvements to our building.

You can have a say in what changes are made to this historic building by filling out our community survey! We would love to hear your feedback on your experience of Z Space, including the Steindler Stage, Z Below, and all of the supporting aspects of these locations. It is our intent to begin to prepare Z Space for the future, keeping it vibrant, flexible, welcoming, and ready for new generations of creative possibilities.

Fill out the survey via the link in our bio!

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Just like that ‘The Curious Incident’ has come to a close. It took me some time to process everything but I think I finally have the words to talk about it.

Doing this show was magical, unbelievably challenging, heartwarming, and exactly why I wanted to start acting. I got to work alongside some of the most talented, skilled, and kindest people I have ever had the honor of sharing a stage with. This was an incredibly challenging show: physically, vocally, and emotionally. I wouldn’t have made it through this run without the support of the beautiful cast and crew, who I love so dearly and already miss spending everyday with.

This show has also been the most personal to me. So much of what I discovered with Christopher came from deep within me. I’ve known pretty much my whole life that I have autism, and even after finally being diagnosed a few years ago I still hadn’t fully processed how much I’ve had to suppress and morph myself to pass as neurotypical. Playing Christopher gave me the freedom to present myself as I am, and to not be ashamed of that.

I am especially grateful to have gotten to speak to so many audience members who were also on the spectrum, or had family and friends with autism, or who were in special education who were affected by this show and getting to see a story about autism *being told by someone with autism*.

This show is so much about capability, and that when given the proper tools, we can navigate any obstacle the world has put in our way. This story has been my life for the last two and a half months, and it has been incredibly hard to say goodbye to it. I cried my entire drive home after closing. I cried because I didn’t want this incredible journey to end, to stop sharing this story with the family we’ve made…
and to say goodbye to Christopher.

But that’s the nature of art, we put our entire being into something, and then we have to set it free. As much as it hurts to let go, I’m so happy to have even done this in the first place, and to have gotten the kind of opportunity I’ve dreamed, trained, and fought to achieve for years. And for that, I am proud.

“Does that mean, I can do…

Anything?”

-Christopher John Francis Boone 🚀

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3 more shows. Tonight, Tomorrow night, and Sunday, then poof gone! Don’t miss us💜🐭💚

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A CHORUS LINE starts performances tonight at @sfplayhouse !

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The Play That Goes Wrong @sanjosestage

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10 years. It's a full decade....
I'll think of something better to say later. I'm in a bit of an odd head space right-now. I do (and forever will) say what I still feel; "I now live in a world without Keite Davis Scott and I will begrudgingly accept that- but in all my long long life I will never grow accustomed to that fact."💔

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Why?? #flowchartist #why #lifequestions #because

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Thanks cousin @julieherreralemler and your family for hosting us this weekend! Good seeing you guys again and good first trip to Rochester.

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