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From the windows of a run-down pho restaurant, Mai watches her neighborhood get gentrified storefront by storefront. Just as the restaurant seems doomed to close, a mysterious tech consultant arrives, helping Mai put the noodle shop on a path to glory. But as Mai discovers the truth of this tasty new reality, she is taken on an unexpected adventure full of Vietnamese cuisine, love, and corrupt technology.

World premiere produced by San Francisco Playhouse, Winter 2024
Directed by Mei Ann Teo, Assistant Directed by Ben Chau-Chiu

Developed with Bucharest Inside the Beltway's Radiance Playwriting Residency, Spring 2021

Erin Mei-Ling Stuart and Sharon Omi in San Francisco Playhouse's production of My Home on the Moon. Photo credit: Jessica Palopoli

Winner of 4 San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards including Best Original Script

"Lee’s 'My Home on the Moon' prompts reflections on AI, what is reality, and how can we keep our cultural identity in a changing world controlled by corporations. A must see."
- Patricia L. Morin, Front Row Review

Featured in KQED's
"Best Bay Area Theater We Saw in 2024"

“My Home on the Moon” fuses the unlikely pairing of pho and AI to tell a beautiful story that raises questions about the impacts of technology and AI on the lives of working-class families."
- Lindsay Muangman, The Daily Californian

“The World Premiere of Minna Lee’s At Home on the Moon is much more than a touching perspective on the love of one’s ethnic food which is handled lovingly. Lee taps the more disturbing issue of gentrification and neighborhood decimation to introduce an AI fantasy posing far more important concerns and elevating the play’s social import."
- Steve Murray, Broadway World

Rinabeth Apostol and Jenny Nguyen Nelson in San Francisco Playhouse's production of My Home on the Moon. Photo credit: Jessica Palopoli

"My Home on the Moon is a humorous take on a Matrix-like reality where people are trapped in a simulated digital world. Warning: the constant food themes may spark your hunger for an immediate bowl of Pho."
- Susan Dunn, Aisle Seat Review

MEMORY BEAR by Minna Lee is an interactive installation that renegotiates the movement of time. Using talking stuffed animals to carry a collection of recorded memories, Memory Bear offers a chance for us to hold messages from the past, present, and even the future.

Memory Bear was developed in part through The Assembly Theater's Deceleration Lab (Spring 2023- Fall 2024). The experience included two phases:

PHASE I NEOSTALGIA
Strangers and friends were invited to participate in new ways of remembering by attending a public workshop led by Minna. Participants shared memories and messages into a voice recorder, which was later installed into a stuffed animal.

PHASE II CHRONOSYNTHESIS
An installation of our time-holding stuffed animals was presented at LocalProduct Gallery (Brooklyn) where visitors could listen to recordings in stuffed animals.