about me

Nico Pang is a writer, director, and performer exploring diasporic belonging, ancestral memory, family, and queer/transness as possibility. Based in Los Angeles, Nico’s work has been featured at East West Players, American Repertory Theater, Celebration Theatre, Hollywood Fringe Fest, and the LA Get Down Festival, among others.

Nico’s plays, often weaving magical realism and poetry, 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 at Starlight Square). Nico is an alum of the Hantext Writing Residency (Pothos Arts & Theater House/REACH LA), and Company One Theatre's PlayLab.

Recent directing credits include Isabel (The Theater Offensive & CHUANG Stage), Tales of the Transcestors: The Divine (Celebration Theatre & Greenway Arts Alliance), as well as Assistant Director to Shinshin Yuder Tsai for The Chinese Lady (Chance Theater) and Khanisha Foster for A New Brain (Celebration Theatre & LA LGBT Center). Nico also directed, wrote, and co-conceived Passion of the Cut Sleeve, a multidisciplinary show exploring queer and trans themes in Chinese folklore (Joy Who Lived Festival 2025).

Nico’s former lives include youth worker, slam poetry coach, reproductive justice organizer, and equestrian.

Currently:

Assistant directing The Chinese Lady at Chance Theater in Anaheim, running May 16 to June 8, 2025.

Developing a new full-length play in IAMA Theatre Company's Emerging Playwrights Lab. Staged reading coming July 2025!