June 22, 2025

EXPERIMENTS READING: spit like an oil slick – October 13

Written by J Xiang

ABOUT

spit like an oil slick is a fractured meditation on everything that enters and leaves your body — over the hours of 3-10 a.m. in some well-sullied club bathroom. There’s our lovely HOST, so nauseated she’s punching a hole straight through our dear, dear COWBOY. He’s an irregular regular that BABY is being a baby, but they’re having a good time, aren’t they? Are they? Where did lonely, lonely TOILET come from? It’s been a long night-to-morning, but it’s not time to go home.

CREDITS

Written by: J Xiang

Directed by Iris McCloughan

BIOS

J Xiang is a playwright who used to only write about the desert; now he lives in Brooklyn. This was supposed to be his final cowboy play. He’s been a Lambda Literary Fellow, an O’Neill NPC & BAPF semi-finalist (x2), a member of Primary Stages’s Echoes Writers Group & Kearny Street Workshop’s Interdisciplinary Writers Lab, and has won the Seymour Brick Memorial Prize & Joseph Milton Fee Jr. Awards. Poetry published by Black Warrior Review, DREGINALD, & Lunch Ticket, among others. In another world, he is living a blissful life as an algebraic number theorist. MFA: Hunter College, ‘26, hopefully.

Experiments Play Reading Series 2025–2026 is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature with additional support from the Howard Gilman Foundation, The John Golden Fund, and The Shubert Foundation.