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.

Recent directing credits include Tales of the Transcestors: The Divine (Celebration Theatre & Greenway Arts Alliance) and Assistant Director to 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 focused on queer and trans themes in Chinese folklore (Joy Who Lived Festival 2025).

Nico’s 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 (Pothos Arts & Theater House/REACH LA), and Company One Theatre's PlayLab.

A facilitator and teaching artist, Nico has coached youth and adult poetry slam teams, designed programs for queer and trans youth, and led trainings in the reproductive justice movement.

Currently:

Assistant directing The Chinese Lady at Chance Theater, 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!