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Min Kahng (he/him) is an award-winning playwright, composer, lyricist and creative coach whose works include "The Four Immigrants: An American Musical Manga" (Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award, Theatre Bay Area Award, Edgerton New Play Award, NAMT Production Grant), "GOLD: The Midas Musical" (Theatre Bay Area Award), "Iris Lee’s Audio Odyssey" (published by Playscripts), "The Adventures of Honey & Leon," "Inside Out & Back Again," "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon: A Musical Adaptation," "Bad Kitty On Stage!," "The Song of the Nightingale," and "Tales of Olympus." Kahng is a MacDowell Fellow, a Travis Bogard Fellow, and an alumnus of the Playwrights Foundation Resident Initiative, Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor, Djerassi, Willapa Bay AiR, and TheatreWorks Silicon Valley's New Works Festival. He has been invited as a Guest Lecturer/Artist at Harvard University, Stanford University, UC Berkeley, San Jose State University and The San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Kahng is an NEA Grant Recipient, a Jonathan Larson Grant Finalist, a Richard Rodgers Award Finalist, and a Dramatists Guild committee member. www.minkahng.com

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Two World Premieres & More Set for Center REP 24-25 Season


Center Repertory Company has unveiled its 57th season—an extraordinary lineup of six works to be presented September 2024 through June 2025. See full programming and learn how to purchase tickets.

Center REP Announces ARSENIC AND OLD LACE And More for 2024-25 Season Including World Premieres & More


Discover the upcoming 2024-25 season at CENTER REPERTORY COMPANY, featuring two World Premieres, a queer interpretation of a classic, and an EGOT winner's fireside chat. Also, learn about their new audience initiatives.

TheatreWorks Reveals Lineup For 2024-25 Season of World and Regional Premieres, Commissions, and More


TheatreWorks Silicon Valley has announced its 54th season—a lineup of works to be presented October 2024 through July 2025. Learn more about the full lineup here!

Stage Partners Launches Two New Play Commissions


Two new play commissions were announced by the independent publishing company Stage Partners, with the goal of engaging professional playwrights to create inspiring new works especially for school theatre programs.

Casting Announced For TheatreWorks' 20th Anniversary NEW WORKS FESTIVAL


TheatreWorks Silicon Valley has set the casting for its 20th Anniversary New Works Festival, a unique program that offers an extraordinary opportunity for audiences to experience new plays and musicals in their early stages of development.

Interview: Min Kahng of the 20TH ANNIVERSARY NEW WORKS FESTIVAL at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley Uses Absurdity to Explore Humanity


BroadwayWorld talks to celebrated Bay Area playwright/composer Min Kahng about his rollicking new show 'Happy Pleasant Valley: A Senior Sex Scandal Murder Mystery Musical,' which is part of TheatreWorks Silicon Valley's 20th Anniversary New Works Festival at the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto August 11th to 20th.

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley to Host TV Star and Trans Activist Shakina for Benefit Performance Next Month


TheatreWorks Silicon Valley will present actor/activist Shakina (NBC's “Connecting,” NBC's “Quantum Leap,” Hulu's “Difficult People”) in Songs and Stories with Shakina: A Musical TheatreWorks Fundraiser and Party, a fun-filled night of transcendent tunes, a dazzling dance party, and a sneak peek at the future of musical theatre.

TheatreWorks to Host BEFORE THE INK DRIES Fundraiser with David Henry Hwang and Rajiv Joseph


TheatreWorks Silicon Valley will kick off its 20th Anniversary New Works Festival with Before the Ink Dries: A Special TheatreWorks Fundraiser with David Henry Hwang and Rajiv Joseph. 

Readings and Special Events Announced for TheatreWorks' 20th Anniversary NEW WORKS FESTIVAL


Hundreds of lovers of new theatre will gather this August for an advance look at tomorrow's hits at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley's 20th Anniversary New Works Festival. This unique festival returns to Palo Alto's Lucie Stern Theatre with its extraordinary opportunity for audiences to experience new plays and musicals in their early stages of development and see their evolution over multiple performances.

San Francisco Shakespeare Festival Presents CYMBELINE


San Francisco Shakespeare Festival has announced that its 41st season of Free Shakespeare in the Park will present Cymbeline. Believed to be one of Shakespeare's final plays, Cymbeline is widely considered one of his greatest achievements, depicting powerful emotions in a fairy tale setting that concludes with inventive scenes of revelation and joyful reconciliation.

Theatre Diaspora to Present a Staged Reading of Min Kahng's INSIDE OUT AND BACK AGAIN


Theatre Diaspora, Oregon's only professional Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) theatre company, will present a free staged reading of Inside Out and Back Again by Min Kahng at Portland Center Stage, May 15 at 6:30 p.m., followed by a panel discussion produced by MediaRites. 

Tri-Valley Repertory Theater to Present THE SONG OF THE NIGHTINGALE by Min Kahng This Month


Tri-Valley Repertory Theater is collaborating with The City of Pleasanton to celebrate ASIAN AMERICAN PACIFIC ISLANDER HERITAGE MONTH with the presentation of THE SONG OF THE NIGHTINGALE by Min Kahng.

Oregon Children's Theatre Presents WHERE THE MOUNTAIN MEETS THE MOON


Oregon Children’s Theatre (OCT) will present Where the Mountain Meets the Moon at the Newmark Theatre, located at Portland’5 Center for the Arts, April 30 through May 28.

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley Commissions Two Musicals and One Play as Part of Commissioning Program


TheatreWorks Silicon Valley has commissioned two musicals and one play as part of the launch of its official Commissioning Program.

SF Shakespeare Festival Relaunches Touring Program


After the Spring 2020 tour of Macbeth was abbreviated due to the pandemic, our touring troupe of actors is back on the road with Shakespeare's antic comedy, A Midsummer Night's Dream. They bring sets, props, costumes, and music to stage a fun-filled hour-long performance. At the end of the show the cast will stay for a Q&A session with the audience.

Inaugural Mid-Career Director Grant Awarded to Mina Morita


TheFrontOffice Foundation is awarding a $25,000 mid-career grant to Mina Morita, the Director of Artistic & Artist Development at Crowded Fire Theater Company, that will serve as one of the largest financial awards to an individual director. 

Special Offer: THE ADVENTURES OF HONEY AND LEON at New York Children's Theater


Special Offer: A new family musical opens this October!

New York City Children's Theater To Premiere The Adventures Of HONEY AND LEON: THE MUSICAL!


On October 8th, 2022, New York City Children's Theater will kick off its 26th season with the world premiere of the new musical The Adventures of Honey and Leon!

New York City Children's Theater Announces 26th Season Featuring MY FIRST NUTCRACKER & More


New York City Children's Theater's 26th season will include premiere performances of The Adventures of Honey and Leon: The Musical, My First Nutcracker, and Fish in A Tree!

Finalists and Semifinalists Announced for Bay Area Playwrights Festival


Playwrights Foundation, the West Coast’s premier launchpad for exceptional new plays and playwrights, has announced the semifinalists and finalists for the 45th Bay Area Playwrights Festival (BAPF), which will be presented as a hybrid (in-person and streamed) festival July 29-August 07, 2022. For more information and a complete list of winners, the public may visit  playwrightsfoundation.org or call 415-626-2176.

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