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.