brian
dang
playwright
poet
✨💫🌙
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, mentor, and teaching artist based in Duwamish Territory (Seattle). Brian is a proud resident playwright at Parley.
Their writing includes "a white haunting" (Table Work Press Recommends, Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship Finalist 2021) and "h*llo k*tty syndrome" (Seattle King Street Station Resident Artist). Their writing additionally has been workshopped with Seattle Opera, Pork Filled Productions, Karen’s Secret Army, and Theatre Battery.
Brian was a 2020-21 Hugo House Fellow and a 2021 Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. They’re grateful for having somehow convinced the world they can read and write.
Their current works in progress include "If only I could give you the sun," an opera with Seattle Opera’s Creation Lab that reimagines Icarus & Daedalus as a nonbinary utopic myth with composer Drew Swatosh; "This time," a sapphic love story about dreams, the death drive of labor, and murder; and "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. They are currently a 2021 Fall Editorial Resident at Seventh Wave Magazine.