sullivan, de los Reyes, Ki, Trinidad, Ko, Yu, and Yim.
NEW YORK CITY: Ma-Yi Theater Company has introduced the latest members of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab, the most important collective of Asian American and Pacific Islander playwrights within the nation. The new members embrace Nina Ki, Kalina Ko, Claro de los Reyes, ayla xuân chi sullivan, Gaven D. Trinidad, Seayoung Yim, and Max Yu.
The Ma-Yi Writers Lab, distinctive for its peer-to-peer format, relies in everlasting residence at Ma-Yi. Ma-Yi is dedicated to offering the Writers Lab with rehearsal amenities and developmental help for workshops and readings, with the playwright on the heart of the method. Ko and Trinidad will function co-coordinators of this cohort.
Ki is a Queer and Korean (or Queerean) American playwright primarily based in Brooklyn. Their performs have been introduced with MCC Theater, Queens Theatre, Yale Summer Cabaret, and the Parsnip Ship. Their play Moon Bear was given particular consideration for the Relentless Award, and their play Taemong (Birth Dream) was a finalist for the Van Lier Fellowship. Ki was an inaugural member of the Parsnip Ship’s Radio Roots Writer’s Group and is presently a member of Clubbed Thumb’s Early Career Writer’s Group. They maintain an BFA from New York University Tisch School of the Arts.
Ko is a Cantonese American director, dramaturg, and literary administrator. She has directed works at drafted, NOMADS at Columbia University, and the JACK, and has served as a script assistant on The Wolf Play at Soho Rep and Hatchetation on the National Music Theater Conference. Ko is presently the literary assistant at Roundabout Theatre Company and a curator at Hedgepig Ensemble Theatre’s Expand the Canon venture. She can also be an affiliate producer at Playground-NY.
De los Reyes is an actor and theatre and movie storyteller of the Filipino diaspora. As a playwright, his latest works have been featured within the Cultural Center of the Philippines’s Virgin Labfest and within the Leviathan Lab’s Filipino American History Month Reading Series. His performing credit embrace Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, the National Asian American Theatre Company, International WOW, and the Ice Factory Festival at New Ohio Theatre, amongst others. de los Reyes is a graduate of the Fordham College at Lincoln Center program.
Sullivan is a Black and Vietnamese nonbinary efficiency artist from Colorado. They are an actor, playwright, director, poet, and educator, and co-founded Shift 23 Media. Their work has been seen at MCC, TOSOS, the LGBT Center, and in Dakar, Senegal. The inaugural New Visions Fellow of the National Queer Theater and the Dramatists Guild, sullivan has been printed in Playbill, the Dramatist, and 303 Magazine, in addition to on this journal.
Trinidad is a primary technology Filipinx American theatremaker and educator from New York who’s presently the group engagement affiliate at New York Theatre Workshop. They have labored in creative and administrative roles on the Julliard School, Musical Theatre Factory, Jacob’s Pillow, Roundabout, Second Stage Theater, and the National Queer Theater. Trinidad’s dramaturgy credit embrace the Yangtze Repertory Theatre of America and Ping Chong and Company, amongst others, and their directing credit embrace Rattlestick Theater and the Global Forms Theater Festival. In 2021, Theatre Communications Group named Trinidad a Rising Leader of Color. Trinidad holds a BA from Dickinson College and an MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the place they’ve additionally taught.
Yim is a playwright from Seattle whose play Jar of Fat gained the 2022 Yale Drama Series Prize and gained second place for the Paul Stephen Lim Playwriting Award. She has been a finalist for the Playwrights Realm’s Scratchpad Series and is the recipient of the playwriting fellowship on the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Theatre Puget Sound’s Gregory Award, and Seattle’s Gypsy Rose Lee Award for Excellence in Local Playwriting. Yim just lately accomplished her MFA at Brown University, the place she was the recipient of the Stephen Sondheim Graduate Fellowship.
Yu is a primary technology Chinese American playwright from the San Francisco Bay Area. His play Nightwatch acquired the 2019 Relentless Award, was a finalist for the Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship, and was chosen for the 2022 National Playwrights Conference. Yu is presently below fee from the Atlantic Theater Company and Shaking the Tree Theatre and was a member of Page 73’s 2021-22 Interstate 73 Writers Group. His performs have been workshopped and developed with the Goodman Theatre, Second Generation Productions, the American Playwriting Foundation, and Horizon Theatre Company, amongst others. Yu has taught playwriting on the National Theater Institute and his poetry and prose has been printed in China. He is a graduate of UCLA.
Ma-Yi Theater Company is an award-winning skilled group whose major mission is to develop and produce new and revolutionary performs by Asian American writers. As of 2021, the theatre had a funds of roughly $698,000.
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