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 (developed with IAMA Theatre Company; O’Neill 2026 NPC semifinalist), Moonbow (Hantext New Works Festival at East West Players), and My Body Is a Season (SpeakEasy Stage). Nico is the 2025 recipient of the Artists at Play Emerging Playwright Commission and a finalist for East West Players' Open Call Commission and Baltimore Center Stage's Trans History Project. They are an alum of IAMA Theatre’s Emerging Playwrights Lab and Company One Theatre's PlayLab.

As a director, Nico helmed the world premieres of Trans Lineage: Rites of Passage and Tales of the Transcestors: The Divine (Celebration Theatre). Other directing credits include Center Theatre Group, The Theater Offensive, CHUANG Stage, and Joy Who Lived Festival. They’ve associate/assistant directed at IAMA Theatre Company, Chance Theater, Artists at Play, and the LA LGBT Center.

Nico is the director of Trans Lineage, a new work development program at Celebration Theatre, where they facilitate the annual playwrights lab and guide projects from pitch to world premiere. Nico co-founded Passion of the Cut Sleeve, a multidisciplinary collective reimagining queer Chinese folklore, for which they write and direct all performance work.

Based in Los Angeles by way of New Jersey, Boston, and the Chinese diaspora, Nico’s work is shaped by his background as a spoken word poet, youth worker, and community organizer. They believe in storytelling as refuge and blueprints for liberated futures.