IAMA Theatre Company presents staged readings of six new plays written by members of the company’s 2024-25 Emerging Playwrights Lab. Readings will take place over the course of two weekends, July 18 through July 27, at the Atwater Village Theatre. Admission is free and open to the public; reservations are recommended.

FRIDAY, JULY 25 AT 8 P.M.: 

I Think I Was Born Missing You by Nico Pang. Directed by H. Adam Harris.

A trans equestrian fights for his place in the elite world of English riding that has never embraced him or his Chinese Malaysian father. When Western circuit’s golden boy crosses his path, their rivalry ignites a reckoning with desire, family, and tradition. A queer, poetic reimagining of the Butterfly Lovers legend, I Think I Was Born Missing You asks how we carve out a life amid the legacies we inherit and the dreams we long for.

Join us for a staged reading of Isabel Written by reid tang, directed by writer and storyteller Nico Pang presented by The Theater Offensive and Chuang stage.

It’s the staircase in the woods again. You know the one. Mysterious, abandoned, the one everyone says you shouldn’t climb. Well—maybe if you did, everything would be different. Maybe you would become something else entirely. Something you’ve always feared you secretly already were.

Selected winner of Silver Lake Shorts Script Fest (comedy) for my short film script, Hole in One!

Staged reading of selected winner scripts at El Cid.

Doors at 7pm and show at 8pm.

Performing spoken word poetry at Sycamore Sessions, a variety show for artist and friends.

Doors at 7pm & show at 8pm.

Celebrate Asian American Heritage Month with Jett Kwong and special guests Nico Pang and Sugi Daaks! Come experience live-scored spoken word and storytelling, a full band performance, and a bar stocked with beverages from local AAPI-run businesses Vervet and Hey Hey. 

Celebration Theatre is proud to present Hear THEM Loud, a showcase of original works created and performed by artists of TGNC experience celebrating trans JOY and POWER. From music to spoken word, artists take the audience on a journey through creating art and celebrating community.

Join us for a 4 day theater festival and enjoy brand new works from queer and trans playwrights of color from the Hantext Class of '22.

February 26, 2023 at 2pm: Moonbow | 月虹 by Nico Pang

Upon his death, a Cantonese family’s patriarch leaves behind a mysterious journal to his grandchild, Benji Lau. Benji hasn’t been back home in years, not since he came out as trans and stepped out of his twin sister’s shadow. As Benji moves in with his newly widowed grandmother, he must figure out his new place in the family and excavate his grandfather’s unknown past. Flitting from the present to 1950s Hong Kong to Benji’s childhood, Moonbow weaves in magical realism and poetry for an intimate journey of navigating grief, building intergenerational possibilities, and finding home.

Celebration Theatre is proud to present Hear THEM Loud, a showcase of original works created and performed by artists of TGNC experience celebrating trans JOY and POWER. From dance to poetry, music to storytelling, ten artists take the audience on a journey through creating art and celebrating community.

Directed by Shaan Dasani (he/they)

Produced by Amanda Kruger (they/them)

Featuring B Alexander (they/them), Jude Batterman (he/they), Alex Hogy (he/him), Alexia Jasmene (she/her) & Blaize Hall (they/she) in a one-act play by Allison Fradkin (she/they), Theo Motzenbacker (he/they), Bex Nitti (he/they) and Jayven Colón from dance troupe Queerchata, Nico Pang (they/them), and Daniel Markus Sanchez (he/him).

Graphic design by Daniel Foerste (he/him)

This program has ASL Interpretation.

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The conclusion to entertwine’s second annual AAPI 24-hour playwriting contest.

Come listen to a live reading of new heart-warming, innovative, ALL MADE WITHIN 24-HOUR, pieces. Sure to brighten your evening. 

Come and celebrate these amazing writers and actors with us

• FORTUNE COOKIES by Christine C. Hsu

• Mingbi by MJ Jin

• Sibling Rivalry by Jamie Lin

• Insurance by Matt Zhang

• Egg & Cheese on a Roll by Claire Tran

• Yearn by Nico Pang

• To grandmother at the end of the world by Brian Dang

• The Cruise by Jennifer Kim

• The Cat-Astrophic Escape by Julianne Pagayon

• Sapatos by Marisa M. Marquez

This forum will feature and celebrate people with a variety of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) identities and their diverse intersections and experiences. Learn more about the diversity of the AAPI community and how to be more inclusive in our collective racial justice efforts. 

Sponsored by LexPride. Cosponsored by Chinese American Association of Lexington (CAAL), Chinese Americans of Lexington (CALex), Indian Americans of Lexington (IAL), Japanese Support Group of Lexington (JPLex), Korean-American Organization of Lexington (KOLex), Rainbows Across Communities, Together We Rise, and other organizations. Supported by a grant from Community Endowment of Lexington, an endowed fund of the Foundation for MetroWest.

Introducing Pothos Arts & Theater House, a new theater company that resides on Tongva land in the South Bay area of Los Angeles. We are hosting a getting-to-know-you fundraiser event in Torrance! Food, soft beverages, performances! Proof of vaccination or recent negative test required. 

Performances by Nico Pang & Socks Whitmore!

Pothos Arts & Theater House is committed to elevating the platform of trans/gender-nonconforming people by producing musicals and new works that center trans artists and their experiences, and advocating for the improvement of the conditions that marginalize such artists.

Elevate your 2022 vision board! Join us on Thursday, January 20 at 7pm ET for an evening of art and reflection to help you set an intention for yourself and your community as we begin a new year.

Featuring new monologues by Season 23 PlayLab Circuit Surge Lab playwrights M Sloth Levine, Tara Moses, and Ashley Rose, plus poetry by Max McLune and Nico Pang, songs by Jude Torres, Thom Dunn, and Kadahj Bennett alongside teen musicians from ZUMIX, and a self-care intermission with Marlene Boyette.

A spoken word event featuring masculine of center wordsmiths, poets, and authors sharing their stories. Free to conference attendees, $10 to non conference attendees. Hosted by Damnyo Lee, featuring Roya Marsh, Tiff Hubbard, Paradigm, and Nico Pang.

Guided by Micah Rosegrant and myself
Presented in collaboration with American Repertory Theatre & Luya Poetry
*named after art by féi hernandez and SA Smythe

How do we render space and beauty for ourselves out of the English language’s colonial landscape? How can prayer be a place to “shape God [and] shape change” (adrienne maree brown with Octavia Butler)? In this workshop, Micah Rosegrant will invite participants into their practice of trans-affirmative spirituality, and then together everyone will explore poetry and spoken word as sites for imagining queer and trans futures.

Celebrate the launch of Art SPARKs with featured poet Nico Pang and a collection of poems for Boston, from Bostonians!

This Earth Day, dive into the intersection of art and civics with Art SPARKs, a new initiative for SPARK Boston that empowers young adults in the creative community to engage in conversations about Boston's future. Attend the collective's first ever event: a poetry open mic, featuring the work of local poet Nico Pang.