about me

Nico Pang is a writer, director, and performer exploring diasporic belonging, ancestral memory, family dynamics, and queer/transness as possibility. 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.

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 with Pothos Arts & Theater House/REACH LA, and Company One Theatre's PlayLab.

Nico was Director & Writing Consultant for Tales of the Transcestors: The Divine (Celebration Theatre & Greenway Arts Alliance) and Assistant Director for A New Brain (Celebration Theatre & LA LGBT Center).

As an actor, Nico was last seen in the world premiere of A Third Space: The Trans Conversation Project (Hollywood Fringe Festival 2024) and Hear THEM Loud (Celebration Theatre).

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:

Directing Passion of the Cut Sleeve, a queer Chinese folklore show, as part of The Joy Who Lived Festival in April 2025.

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