about me

Nico Pang is a Cantonese writer, director, and performer telling stories to map journeys of diasporic belonging, ancestral memory, 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 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 (SpeakEasy Stage). They co-conceived, wrote, and directed Passion of the Cut Sleeve (Joy Who Lived Festival), a multidisciplinary show exploring queerness in Chinese folklore. They have developed work with IAMA Theatre Company, Company One Theatre (PlayLab), SpeakEasy Stage, and Pothos Arts & Theater House.

Recent directing credits include Trans Lineage: Rites of Passage (Celebration Theatre), Isabel (The Theater Offensive & CHUANG Stage), Tales of the Transcestors: The Divine (Celebration Theatre & Greenway Arts Alliance), and Assistant Director for The Chinese Lady (Chance Theater) and A New Brain (Celebration Theatre & LA LGBT Center). As a performer and actor, they’ve appeared in Hollywood Fringe Festival, LA Get Down Festival, and Creating Equal for American Repertory Theater.

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.

Currently / upcoming:

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

🧧 Directing Passion of the Cut Sleeve: Galloping Into The New Year in February 2026 to celebrate Year of the Fire Horse (in partnership with the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs)