Nico Pang

Nico Pang (they/he) is a writer and director crafting stories for liberated futures. Born into a Cantonese immigrant family, Nico explores diaspora, ancestral memory, queer and trans love, and the ways we make and unmake family. Their work has been featured across the country at East West Players, American Repertory Theater, LA Get Down Festival, and other venues.

From plays to spoken word poetry, Nico tells stories across time and borders— in queer bedrooms, family restaurants, and dreamscapes. Plays include Moonbow (Hantext Festival at East West Players), My Body Is a Season (commissioned and produced by SpeakEasy Stage), and Troublemakers (Asian American Playwright Collective PlayFest at Starlight Square). Nico is a former winner of entertwine’s AAPI 24-Hour Playwriting Contest and an...

Nico Pang (they/he) is a writer and director crafting stories for liberated futures. Born into a Cantonese immigrant family, Nico explores diaspora, ancestral memory, queer and trans love, and the ways we make and unmake family. Their work has been featured across the country at East West Players, American Repertory Theater, LA Get Down Festival, and other venues.

From plays to spoken word poetry, Nico tells stories across time and borders— in queer bedrooms, family restaurants, and dreamscapes. Plays include Moonbow (Hantext Festival at East West Players), My Body Is a Season (commissioned and produced by SpeakEasy Stage), and Troublemakers (Asian American Playwright Collective PlayFest at Starlight Square). Nico is a former winner of entertwine’s AAPI 24-Hour Playwriting Contest and an alum of the Hantext Writing Residency with Pothos Arts & Theatre House/REACH LA, and Company One Theatre’s PlayLab Unit Fellow.

A facilitator and educator, Nico has coached slam teams, developed queer youth programs, and led trainings in the reproductive justice and trans liberation movement.

Scripts

Moonbow

by Nico Pang

Synopsis

Upon his death, a Cantonese family’s patriarch 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. As Benji moves in with his newly widowed grandmother, he must figure out his new place in the family and excavate his grandfather’s unknown past. Flitting from the present to 1950s Hong...

Upon his death, a Cantonese family’s patriarch 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. As Benji moves in with his newly widowed grandmother, he must figure out his new place in the family and excavate his grandfather’s unknown past. Flitting from the present to 1950s Hong Kong to Benji’s childhood, Moonbow weaves in magical realism and poetry for an intimate journey of navigating grief, building intergenerational possibilities, and finding home.

Door

by Nico Pang

Synopsis

A queer couple contemplates grief, mothers, ancestors, and love.

A queer couple contemplates 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.