The Bottoming Process

by Nicholas Pilapil

Renberg Theatre, L.A. LGBT Center (2023)

Credit: Co-Props Design

• Director: Rodney To • Scenic: Christopher Scott Murillo • Props: Rye Mandel and Michael O’Hara • Lighting: Joseph Epstein • Projection: Nicholas Santiago • Costume: Elena Flores • Sound: Jeff Gardner •

Two writers meet at WeWork and fall in love—or something like it. One is a famed novelist, and the other is a nobody who's mostly funny on Twitter. One is nearing middle age, and the other is flailing through their twenties. One is White, and the other is Filipino. As they mate, date, and cohabitate, they'll grapple with issues of race, sex, power, and the model minority myth, all to find out who's really on top.