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.

photo of DNA New Works actors (from L to R): Albert Park, Earl Kim, Trieu Tran, Earl Baylon, Feodor Chin and Daisuke Tsuji