“Let’s keep inundating our culture with our varying narratives and perspectives. We’re playing a cultural long-game here – centuries in the making. We can be influencing tomorrow’s voters in profound ways today. There are short-term horrors to be concerned and grappled with to be sure, but never doubt the power of your craft to shape the country in the long-run.”
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ARTISTIC STATEMENT
My desire is to craft musical theatre journeys that widen audience’s eyes and perspectives, shine a light on untold stories, and showcase the beauty and complexity of human connection.
My Personal Core Values:
EVOLUTION – we can always grow, adapt, get better
CONNECTION – we do not move through life alone
SELF-KINDNESS – I can’t progress if I’m rotten to myself
WHOLENESS – I can’t progress if something is blocked or cut off from my true self
PLAY – where true joy resides
My Professional Core Values:
STORYTELLING – I participate in this core human ritual
PERSPECTIVE – shedding light on a new or overlooked point of view
LIFE-GIVING – helping others realize their true selves
EVOLUTION – we can always grow, adapt, get better
CONNECTION – we do not move through life alone
MIN KAHNG
Min Kahng is an award-winning Bay Area playwright and composer whose world premiere works include The Four Immigrants: An American Musical Manga (recipient of the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards for Original Script and Original Music, the Theatre Bay Area Award for World Premiere Musical, the Edgerton New Play Award, and a NAMT Production Grant), The Song of the Nightingale, Inside Out & Back Again, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, Bad Kitty On Stage!, and Tales of Olympus. Kahng also wrote the NEA-funded project Story Explorers, an original musical for young audiences with autism, which is currently touring to schools around the Bay Area. He received the 2014 Titan Award for Playwrights and was recognized in American Theatre magazine as one of “9 Musical Theatre Writers You Should Know.” Kahng is a Resident Playwright at Playwrights Foundation and a proud member of the Dramatists Guild.
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