Chris, the daughter of American Christian missionaries, meets Adiel, a Ugandan teenager, secretly in her parents' church.
[2] Jung wrote Cardboard Piano during a residency at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Playwrights Conference.
[3] She was inspired to write the play after 2013 news stories about Joseph Kony as well as Uganda's anti-homosexuality legislature passed in that year.
[5] It was directed by Leigh Silverman and starred Briana Pozner as Chris, Nike Kadri as Adiel and Ruth, Jamar Williams as Pika, and Michael Luwoye as Paul.
[6] In 2018, Jacole Kitchen directed the West Coast premiere of Cardboard Piano with Diversionary Theatre in San Diego.
[9] Later that year, Benny Sato Ambush directed Cardboard Piano at the New Repertory Theatre in Watertown, Massachusetts.