Lisa Sanaye Dring
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    • Welcome to the Blumhouse Live
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    • Kaidan Project: Alone
    • Alabaster
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    • LOUISVILLE // KENTUCKY // USA
    • Hookman
    • FEMPIRE
    • The Wicked One
    • cleo, theo & wu
    • Big Ones
    • kaidan project: walls grow thin
    • Rogue Lab
    • tsa presents: car plays
    • death play
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Entrenched in a training facility for sumo wrestlers, six men practice, eat, love, play and ultimately fight. Mixing ancient, divine ritual with the guttural ferocity of competition, they struggle to carve themselves – and one another – into the men they dream of being. SUMO is a story about the pursuit of the impossible.



Workshopped at La Jolla Playhouse as part of their 2021 DNA New Works Series. Finalist for the O'Neill Playwrights Conference and semi-finalist for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival. Initially written in East West Players' Playwrights Group, also received support from the MacDowell.


Read the most current draft of SUMO here.
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photo of DNA New Works actors (from L to R): Albert Park, Earl Kim, Trieu Tran, Earl Baylon, Feodor Chin and Daisuke Tsuji
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  • about
  • news
  • photos
    • writing and directing
    • acting
  • reel
    • writing and directing
    • acting
  • resume
    • writing and directing
    • acting
  • projects
    • Welcome to the Blumhouse Live
    • SUMO
    • Kaidan Project: Alone
    • Alabaster
    • punkplay
    • LOUISVILLE // KENTUCKY // USA
    • Hookman
    • FEMPIRE
    • The Wicked One
    • cleo, theo & wu
    • Big Ones
    • kaidan project: walls grow thin
    • Rogue Lab
    • tsa presents: car plays
    • death play
  • contact