brian
dang
playwright
poet
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news/upcoming
🌟 I'm a Jack Straw Writer this year!
You can get an anthology of my cohort's work here.
🌟 Undermain Theatre in Dallas has awarded me the Katherine Owens Undermain Fund for New Work for This time! The play is programmed in their upcoming season, and will play February 29 - March 17, 2024.
MAY 22: Celebrating Cathy Linh Che and the pub of Asian American A-Z! @ Friends of Little Saigon [link]
MAY 22: Seventh Wave Reading @ Elliott Bay Book Company [link]
MAY 28: Jack Straw Writers' Reading Series @ Folklife (Center Theatre) [link]
about
to Brian, writing is...
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envisioning a future communing, of ideas and people in shared creation (art, community, etc.)
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obliteration of (my)self into something more whole
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an opportunity to freeze time as we know it
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an acknowledgement of suffering, a breath, a reaching for joy
Brian Dang (they/them) is a Vietnamese/Chinese playwright, poet, and teaching artist based in Seattle. They are a proud resident playwright at Parley and were a 2020-21 Hugo House Fellow.
Their plays include This time (NPC Finalist 2022, Many Voices Fellowship Semi-Finalist 2022) and a white haunting (Princess Grace Fellowship Finalist, Upcoming production with MAP Theatre).
Their writing has additionally been supported by 4Culture, Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, Centrum Foundation, and workshopped with Seattle Opera, Pork Filled Productions, Mirror Stage, Sound Theatre, Theatre Battery, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. They teach poetry/theatre with Writers in the Schools, Arts Corps, and more. They really like bread.
Their current works in progress include "49 words I wish I could write in my family’s language," a poetry/letter collection supported through 4Culture and the 2022 Seattle CityArtist program.