about me

Nico Pang is a writer, director, and performer exploring diaspora, ancestral memory, queer and trans love, and the ways we make and unmake family. Currently based in Los Angeles, Nico’s work has been featured at East West Players, American Repertory Theater, Celebration Theatre, and the LA Get Down Festival, among others.

Plays 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). A winner of entertwine’s AAPI 24-Hour Playwriting Contest for their play Yearn, Nico is an alum of the Hantext Writing Residency with Pothos Arts & Theater House/REACH LA, and Company One Theatre's PlayLab.

Nico was Assistant Director to Khanisha Foster for a reimagined, gender-expansive production of A New Brain (Celebration Theatre & LA LGBT Center). As an actor, Nico was last seen as Ki in the world premiere of A Third Space: The Trans Conversation Project at the Hollywood Fringe Festival.

Storytelling and organizing for liberated futures, Nico has coached poetry slam teams, designed programs for queer and trans youth, and facilitated trainings in the reproductive justice movement.

Upcoming: Directing Tales of the Transcestors: The Divine (Celebration Theatre & Greenway Arts Alliance) coming December 2024.