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My Story Ideas

Posted on 05/28/202006/05/2020 by Conrad

Below are ideas I’ve had stored on my phone for stories for such a long time! One of the challenging parts of writing a story is to even come up with one, so here they are. And no, I’m not worried about someone else stealing an idea, because that’s all these are: an idea. I write stories… and those will be mine. I hope you find yours.


The story of Two Americas. Inspired by the discussion by Rev. Barber with the Breakfast Club. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Nlmp8xy3YY (added June 5, 2020)

A family is ready to leave America because of all of its problems. One part of the family wants to stay and fight for the United States. (added 2020/05/30)

A group of POCs ready themselves to blast into outerspace to start a new life. (added 2020/05/30)

The power of the “Like”. How social media emojis have shaped a person. (added 2020/05/29)

Pastlife Regression. Story idea from something I heard on NPR. Research this!

About a person who finds out that she was a twin who passed away at birth.

Start a play with, “Did you think about what we talked about last night?”

A pair of polar opposites discuss theatre etiquette right before curtain.

A pair of food truck workers soar over a parking space and the difference between good and trendy foods

What it’s like to be treated because someone eats with a fork and spoon

A journalist returns to her hometown to investigate a crime turned mystery

A play where two people are on a date at two different bars in two different bars in the world. They talk to each other over texts.

What is the perfect apology?

About a female stranger just met on a wine cruise from a different city and becomes someone you need to “take care of”.

A play about people so impassioned about a cause that they do everything except anything physical to help that cause. Based on my thought that if people really wanted to get rid of the President, then they have a March on Washington and STAY there like what the people in Hong Kong are doing.

A couple discovers that their relatives were stolen art thieves!

Appreciation vs appropriation

Code switching

Cancel culture

Sleepwalking sleeptalking

Research Aeta indigenous tribe of the Philippines

What is talent?

You never told me you had a brother…

Person discovers something extraordinary about herself after using a DNA test about her heritage.

How to Level Up Family First!

a journalist who returns to her hometown to discover a family secret

a person discovers that a filipinx american story was actually a myth

America (the world) was built by a world without CONSENT. Coloization. #metoo

understanding the cancel culture

A person returns home to save the family business, a Filipino owned mortuary, after the mom passes away.
– explore differences between American and Filipino funerals
– explore the history of the family business

Story about meeting Harriet Wheeler from The Sundays
– What she doing now and a reflection on the songs that changed a person’s life

Story about how square dancing can be used as a colonial ization teaching method

In a Roshoman-y way, it fascinates me how different people can interpret the same facts ast their own truth! Context: the Impeachment Hearings. Feel a like noone is willing to concede despite THE FACTS.

Using the Asian name (Chinese and Korean) versus the American name. What are the original and why people would CHOOSE one over the other? Interesting to me.

The choice of choosing to learn the mother tongue.

Play title: TO A FAULT

Take out boxes –
– food challenge where 2 people bet each other who can eat the contents of the food container.

Karma Duendes – tiny moral creatures that exact revenge when you do wrong. For example, letting the air out of tires if an abled person parks in a handicapped parking space.

Game night. Explore colonization using a game show as a vehicle as a way for others to see how the Fil-Am mind fits in America.

Chasing the Love. Constantly trying to gain the love of a parent despite being abused.

When does compassion die. Remembering the scene when a security guard beat down a person trying to steal something at Walgreens in Powell. I didn’t do anything to stop the beat down.

How hypnosis is on the edge of some dark shit

a story where a father and a daughter are picking a star to be there he in the next life. He tells her that when a person leaves this world that star is where they go. At the end the play, she talks to her mom which is a star in the sky.

When bees go extinct, so will humans.

Is it possible for two spirits to meet in the next life? Like if I died, would it be possible to be reunited with friends and family? How would that look and feel like? Or not? Is the promise of an afterlife real? Could tat he proven?

Journey with mom/dad where youmg

A play where a person asks the Virgin Mary for forgiveness. Or a conversation between a person and a Saint who is a person to act as an intercessor for a soul.

A play about a FB users group. The group needs to be unique so it’s hella funny. Should start with Like, like, angry, sad, wow, like… Inspired by Water by the Spoonful.

Title: Thunder & Faith.
There’s a singer named Thunderstorm Artis who just got engaged to a person named Faith. I read on the engagement photo comments, Thunder & Faith… I like the sound of that for a title.

Had a vision of a person who’s sitting in a lawn chair in front of a grave and talking to that person and another person who comes by to talk to another person recently passed away at a nearby plot.

A new policy has started with the initiative to end racism by importing POCs into cities around the country with a white population of over 80%. This supports my theory that the country’s divide is really between the large cities (diverse and progressive) vs. small towns (non-diverse). By having a program where POCs would move to smaller towns and face a disaster which is gov’t made (unbeknownst to the participants) would bring them all together.

Filipino workers on a cruise line during Coronavirus

Being Loyal to Yourself vs. Being Loyal to Friends or “Friends”

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Conrad A. Panganiban (he/him/his) is an award-winning Filipino American playwright representing the San Francisco Bay Area. His plays include Daryo’s All-American Diner, Welga, and River’s Message. Conrad’s work has been produced by Bindlestiff Studio, The Chikahan Company, CIRCA Pintig (IL), the MaArte Theatre Collective, and CATS (Contemporary Asian Theatre Scene) . Awards include: Best Play of 2023, Daryo’s All-American Diner (BroadwayWorldAwards Chicago), Best New Play, Daryo’s All-American Diner (Chicago Reader, Best of 2023), Susan Fairbrook Playwright Fund Awardee (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley), 2023 New Voices in Comedy Writing Fellowship (Killing My Lobster), James Milton Highsmith Award Winner (SFSU), National Ten-Minute Play Festival Finalist (Actors Theatre of Louisville), and Bay Area Playwrights Festival Semi-Finalist (Playwrights Foundation). Resident Artist: Bindlestiff Studio. Member: Dramatist Guild of America, and Theatre Bay Area. MFA, San Francisco State University. @consplayspace

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