[3] Gold Watch focused on the impact of Executive Order 9066 on the Japanese American Agrarian Community in Wapato, Washington before its forced removal.
[2] The play follows protagonist Masu Murakami as he led resistance against the forced relocation of his community, celebrating human courage and a struggle for dignity.
[1] She submitted Gold Watch to the East West Players Theater Company National Playwriting Contest for Asian-American Writers, where it won.
[2] Gold Watch is thought to be the first play written by an Asian American woman produced in the continental United States.
Unlike Gold Watch, this play focused on the aftermath of relocation and assimilation policies on Japanese American families.
This play focuses on the impending wedding of Mazie's (a child from Flowers and Household Gods) niece to a Nisei man named Glenn, who desperately wants to be seen as an American citizen.