about me

Nico Pang is a Cantonese writer, director, and performer telling stories of diasporic belonging, ancestral memory, and queerness & transness as possibility.

Nico’s plays include I Think I Was Born Missing You (IAMA Theatre Emerging Playwrights Series), Moonbow (Hantext New Works Festival at East West Players), and My Body Is a Season (commissioned & produced by SpeakEasy Stage). 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 helmed the world premieres of Trans Lineage: Rites of Passage and Tales of the Transcestors: The Divine (Celebration Theatre). Other credits include Twink Death of the Universe (Joy Who Lived Festival) and Isabel (The Theater Offensive & CHUANG Stage). They assistant directed The Chinese Lady (Chance Theater) and A New Brain (Celebration Theatre & LA LGBT Center).

Nico is 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.

As a performer and actor, they’ve appeared in the Hollywood Fringe Festival, LA Get Down Festival, and Creating Equal for American Repertory Theater. Nico has coached youth and adult poetry slam teams, designed programs for queer/trans youth and families, and led trainings in the reproductive justice movement. They believe in storytelling as refuge and blueprints for liberated futures.

CURRENTLY / UPCOMING:

🕯️ Writing a new play as the recipient of Artists at Play’s 2025 Emerging Playwright Commission

🥀 Associate directing …but you could’ve held my hand at IAMA Theatre Company (June 2026)

🪩 Directing TWINK DEATH OF THE UNIVERSE at the Joy Who Lived Festival (April 2026)

❤️‍🔥 Directing and performing in Passion of the Cut Sleeve: Galloping Into the New Year, presented by City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs for Lunar New Year (February 2026)