Nico Pang

Nico Pang (they/he) is a Cantonese writer, director, and performer. A queer and trans child of immigrants, they tell stories of diasporic belonging, ancestral memory, and queerness as possibility.

Plays include I Think I Was Born Missing You (IAMA Theatre Emerging Playwrights Series), Moonbow (Hantext New Works Festival at East West Players), My Body Is a Season (commissioned & produced by SpeakEasy Stage), as well as Door and Troublemakers (Asian American Playwright Collective PlayFest). Nico is the 2025 recipient of Artists at Play’s Emerging Playwrights Commission and an alum of IAMA Theatre Company’s Emerging Playwrights Lab and Company One Theatre’s PlayLab.

As a director, Nico has worked with Celebration Theatre, Greenway Court Theatre, Chance Theater, The Theater Offensive, and...

Nico Pang (they/he) is a Cantonese writer, director, and performer. A queer and trans child of immigrants, they tell stories of diasporic belonging, ancestral memory, and queerness as possibility.

Plays include I Think I Was Born Missing You (IAMA Theatre Emerging Playwrights Series), Moonbow (Hantext New Works Festival at East West Players), My Body Is a Season (commissioned & produced by SpeakEasy Stage), as well as Door and Troublemakers (Asian American Playwright Collective PlayFest). Nico is the 2025 recipient of Artists at Play’s Emerging Playwrights Commission and an alum of IAMA Theatre Company’s Emerging Playwrights Lab and Company One Theatre’s PlayLab.

As a director, Nico has worked with Celebration Theatre, Greenway Court Theatre, Chance Theater, The Theater Offensive, and CHUANG Stage, with a passion for imaginative works and new play development. They are the director of Trans Lineage, Celebration Theatre’s trans-centered new works program, where they facilitate the annual playwrights lab and guide projects from pitch to world premiere. Nico also co-founded Passion of the Cut Sleeve, a multidisciplinary collective reimagining queer Chinese folklore, for which they write and direct all performance work.

Nico’s former lives include youth worker, slam poet and coach, reproductive justice organizer, and equestrian. They believe in storytelling as refuge and blueprints for liberated futures.

Scripts

I Think I Was Born Missing You

by Nico Pang

Synopsis

A trans equestrian prepares for a career-defining National Championship in the elite world of showjumping that has never embraced him or his Chinese Malaysian father. When Western riding’s golden boy crashes onto his path, their rivalry ignites a reckoning with desire, family, and tradition. A queer, lyrical reimagining of the Chinese Legend of the Butterfly Lovers, I Think I Was Born Missing You asks how we...

A trans equestrian prepares for a career-defining National Championship in the elite world of showjumping that has never embraced him or his Chinese Malaysian father. When Western riding’s golden boy crashes onto his path, their rivalry ignites a reckoning with desire, family, and tradition. A queer, lyrical reimagining of the Chinese Legend of the Butterfly Lovers, I Think I Was Born Missing You asks how we carve out a life amid the legacies we inherit and the dreams we long for.

Moonbow

by Nico Pang

Synopsis

When the patriarch of a Cantonese family dies, he leaves behind a mysterious journal to his grandchild, Benji Lau. Benji hasn’t been back home in years, not since he came out as trans and stepped out of his twin sister’s shadow. To solve the mystery of this final gift, Benji must move in with his widowed grandmother and excavate a past that stretches back to 1950s Hong Kong.

When the patriarch of a Cantonese family dies, he leaves behind a mysterious journal to his grandchild, Benji Lau. Benji hasn’t been back home in years, not since he came out as trans and stepped out of his twin sister’s shadow. To solve the mystery of this final gift, Benji must move in with his widowed grandmother and excavate a past that stretches back to 1950s Hong Kong.

troublemakers

by Nico Pang

Synopsis

Trapped in a toxic workplace, two best friends conspire and dream of life beyond the nonprofit industrial complex.

Trapped in a toxic workplace, two best friends conspire and dream of life beyond the nonprofit industrial complex.

Door

by Nico Pang

Synopsis

A trans couple is pushed and pulled apart by grief, mothers, ancestors, and love.

A trans couple is pushed and pulled apart by grief, mothers, ancestors, and love.

My Body Is a Season

by Nico Pang

Synopsis

Through a series of strange and beautiful dreams, Cameron explores what it means to come home to their body.

Through a series of strange and beautiful dreams, Cameron explores what it means to come home to their body.