See Who's Starring in Yoko's Husband's Killer's Japanese Wife, Gloria Concert

The new musical from Brandy Hoang Collier, Clare Fuyuko Bierman, and Erika Ji will play two performances at Joe's Pub.

March 20, 2026 By Meg Masseron

Casting has been revealed for the concert presentation of Yoko's Husband's Killer's Japanese Wife, Gloria, running for two performances at Joe's Pub April 13-14. The musical features a book by Brandy Hoang Collier, lyrics by Clare Fuyuko Bierman, and music by Erika Ji.

Jess McLeod will direct the production, which explores the questions that arise from Ruby Okamoto's insomniatic fever dream: Did Yoko Ono really break up The Beatles? Was Gloria Abe Chapman somehow responsible for John Lennon’s murder? Why do all these egotistical white guys marry Asian women? These questions keep Ruby up at night, and now, she's getting answers—even if she has to summon all of Asian America into her insomniatic fever dream.

The production will star Emy Coligado (Miss Saigon), Aury Krebs (Darling Grenadine), Emily Kuroda (Gilmore Girls), Dorcas Leung (The Notebook, Miss Saigon), Lianah Sta. Ana (Miss Saigon), and Lili Thomas (Gypsy, Chicago), with additional vocals by Anne Fraser Thomas (Queen of Versailles) and Jen Sese (Hamilton, Hair).

Erika Ji and Steven Tran are the orchestrators. Nina Schatell is the stage manager.

Yoko's Husband's Killer's Japanese Wife, Gloria is a Vivace Award-winning musical commissioned by the 5th Avenue Theatre, developed at the O’Neill National Music Theatre Conference, and presented at the National Festival of New Musicals by the National Alliance for Musical Theatre. It has been developed with support from the Civilians, the Johnny Mercer Writers Grove, the MAP Fund, the NAMT Frank Young Fund, the Orchard Project, the Rhinebeck Writers Retreat, and Theatre Latté Da. The work was most recently named one of three finalists for the American Playwriting Foundation's Relentless Award, the largest annual cash prize in American theatre, in honor of Philip Seymour Hoffman and Adam Schlesinger.

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