Ma-Yi Theater Company

Ma-Yi Theater Company Ma-Yi Theater Company is the country's leading incubator of new Asian American plays.
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Ma-Yi Theater Company is an award-winning, professional Off-Broadway Theater based in New York City whose mission is to commission, develop, and produce new works by Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) artists.

Please join us May 30th at 3PM for a public reading of DRAWING LESSONS by Michi Barall, directed by Jack Tamburri, prese...
05/18/2026

Please join us May 30th at 3PM for a public reading of DRAWING LESSONS by Michi Barall, directed by Jack Tamburri, presented by Ma-Yi Theater Company + Children’s Theater Company at ART/NY.

RSVP required: in our Instagram bio or at the link below.

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Check out this American Theatre magazine interview with award-winning playwright Lisa Sanaye Dring!Says Dring of being a...
05/16/2026

Check out this American Theatre magazine interview with award-winning playwright Lisa Sanaye Dring!

Says Dring of being a playwright, “What a cool thing to spend our lives doing. Plays are so cool because you build this mind palace with yourself. And how many mind palaces can you fill with growth and self-sovereignty and also generosity and care?”

The playwright and director from Hawaii and Nevada discusses ‘Death Play,’ ‘Sumo,’ yearning, loneliness, and the wisdom of accepting loss.

We have a few more slots available for this FREE THEATER WORKSHOP for Filipino American and AANHPI Teens aged 12 to 17. ...
05/14/2026

We have a few more slots available for this FREE THEATER WORKSHOP for Filipino American and AANHPI Teens aged 12 to 17. Don't miss this opportunity to work with nurturing theater professionals and one of New York's most respected theater companies.

Scan the QR code to register. Don't wait!

TWO ADDITIONAL FREE PLAYWRITING WORKSHOPS THIS FALL!Due to the overwhelming response to our summer Free Playwriting Work...
05/11/2026

TWO ADDITIONAL FREE PLAYWRITING WORKSHOPS THIS FALL!

Due to the overwhelming response to our summer Free Playwriting Workshop, Ma-Yi Theater Company is thrilled to announce two additional FREE playwriting workshops in Fall 2026, taught by award-winning playwright Lisa Sanaye Dring, author of SUMO and HAPPY FALL.

Created for Filipino American and AANHPI aspiring writers, these workshops are open to writers who are ready to begin, grow, experiment, or finally say: Yes. I’m writing the play.

Both classes are completely FREE and will offer participants a supportive, rigorous, and energizing space to explore the fundamentals of playwriting, including character, dialogue, action, structure, theme, and theatrical style. Through writing prompts, discussion, readings, and feedback, participants will generate new pages and develop their voices in community with fellow writers.

The first six sessions will meet online, making the workshop accessible for working adults and busy schedules. The workshop will then culminate in an in-person showcase presentation, where participants’ work will be brought to life by professional actors and directors.

This is more than a class. It is a chance to write, dream, build, revise, and hear your words leap off the page.

MONDAY CLASS 1
7:00 PM–10:00 PM (Eastern Time(
September 21–November 9, 2026

TUESDAY CLASS 2
7:00 PM–10:00 PM (Eastern Time)
September 22–November 10, 2026

Free. Supportive. Challenging. Joyful. Limited slots available.

Register early and come write with us.

TWO ADDITIONAL FREE PLAYWRITING WORKSHOPS THIS FALL! Due to the overwhelming response to our summer Free Playwriting Workshop, Ma-Yi Theater Company is thrilled to announce two additional FREE playwriting workshops in Fall 2026, taught by award-winning playwright Lisa Sanaye Dring, author of SUMO an...

Due to overwhelming demand, we are adding two more FREE PLAYWRITING WORKSHOPS in the fall. An announcement will be made ...
05/06/2026

Due to overwhelming demand, we are adding two more FREE PLAYWRITING WORKSHOPS in the fall. An announcement will be made in July. Please stay tuned.

FREE PLAYWRITING WORKSHOP taught by award-winning author Lisa Sanaye Dring (Sumo, Happy Fall). June 22 to August 10, 202...
05/04/2026

FREE PLAYWRITING WORKSHOP taught by award-winning author Lisa Sanaye Dring (Sumo, Happy Fall). June 22 to August 10, 2026. Evening classes online, with live showcase event featuring professional actors and directors.

Why not start that play you've always been thinking of writing? This is FREE. Scan the QR code to register.

Join Ma-Yi Theater Company, a renowned professional Off-Broadway theater company, for a free online playwriting workshop with award-winning playwright Lisa Sanaye Dring (SUMO). Created with Filipino American writers in mind — all are welcome — this workshop is open to anyone 18+, from total begi...

Free Teen Theater Workshop. Scan the QR code to register. Limited class size. Filipino American and AANHPI Teens aged 12...
05/01/2026

Free Teen Theater Workshop. Scan the QR code to register. Limited class size. Filipino American and AANHPI Teens aged 12-17. It's free and taught by theater professionals covering performance, improvisation, movement, and puppetry.

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04/19/2026

NOW ON SALE! Shayok Misha Chowdhury (2024 Pulitzer Prize finalist and Obie Award winner) joins forces with his physicist mother, Bulbul Chakraborty (2025 Obie Award winner) in RHEOLOGY.

Bulbul is obsessed with the mystery of sand: how it flows like a liquid, but then jams into a solid. Misha is obsessed with his mother. But they’re running out of time. In this boundary-pushing collaboration, an artist son and his scientist mother challenge each other to a high-stakes experiment.

STARTS APRIL 14TH, 2026.

Photo by Maria Baranova.

Don’t miss RHEOLOGY at Playwrights Horizons!
04/19/2026

Don’t miss RHEOLOGY at Playwrights Horizons!

RHEOLOGY is featured in New York Mag’s list of anticipated shows this year. Catch the boundary-pushing collaboration between an artist son and his scientist mother when performances start April 14.

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The Bushwick Starr, HERE Arts Center, and Ma-Yi Theater Company Production of RHEOLOGY

In association with The Bushwick Starr
Written and Directed by Shayok Misha Chowdhury
In Collaboration with Bulbul Chakraborty

Photo by Maria Baranova

04/14/2026

Happy opening to 2022 Relentless Award Winner Shayok Misha Chowdhury, whose critically acclaimed, genre-defying play Rheology begins its run at Playwrights Horizons tonight! The play, which premiered last year at The Bushwick Starr in a co-production between HERE Arts Center and Ma-Yi Theater Company, features Misha and his real-life mother, theoretical physicist Bulbul Chakraborty, as they challenge each other to a high-stakes experiment. The deeply personal, form-bending play is another singular contribution from this remarkable multi-hyphenate artist— we're still eagerly awaiting the world premiere of the Relentless Award-winning musical, How the White Girl Got Her Spots and Other 90s Trivia, co-written with Laura Grill Jaye.

Ma-Yi Theater Company's production of JESA by JEENA YI directed by MEI ANN TEO, is now playing at The Public Theater. TH...
03/26/2026

Ma-Yi Theater Company's production of JESA by JEENA YI directed by MEI ANN TEO, is now playing at The Public Theater. THROUGH APRIL 12 ONLY.

TICKETS HERE: https://publictheater.org/productions/season/2526/jesa/ -jumpto

With: TINA CHILIP, CHRISTINE HEESUN HWANG, LAURA SOHN, SHANNON TYO

Scenic Designer: YOU-SHIN CHEN
Costume Designer: MEL NG
Lighting Designer: JEANETTE OI-SUK YEW
Sound Designer: HAO BAI
Prop Designer: THOMAS JENKELEIT
Fight Director: CHELSEA PACE
Dramaturg: AMRITA RAMANAN
Voice and Text Coach: JULIE CONGRESS
Casting: TBD CASTING CO. / STEPHANIE YANKWITT, CSA
Production Stage Manager: KEVIN JINGHONG ZHU
Production Manager for Ma-Yi: KYLE DANIELS

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