Ang Bey

(they/them/theirs)

Performer | Playwright | Producer | Director | Teaching Artist

I am...

from Southwest Philadelphia

and

committed to the transformative power of storytelling.

Provocation with purpose

makes for

dynamic, socially conscious, and challenging

work.

I create

to

inspire

decolonization

and

radical healing

within

myself

& within 

the world.

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selected credits:

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[admin]: 2019/20 Season Apprentice at Theatre Horizon

[stage]: The Niceties (InterAct Theatre Company); Candles (Philadelphia Young Playwrights); Our Ouija Board... (On The Rocks); Twelfth Night (Shakespeare in Clark Park); The Baldest Eagle (Philly Improv Theatre)

[film]: Sundance Directors Lab Actors Ensemble 2017; LP (dir. Alexander Etseyatse); Georgie (dir. Lars Keer); Bracelet (dir. John Deswert)

[playwriting]​: The Medusa Play ( Shoe Box Theatre Collective); Peter Pan and Other Men (Apartment20: Ghost Stories 24 Hour Theatre Festival); The White Feather Project (Upstream Performance Collaborative);Com[promising] Future (National Constitution Center); Pedestals (Philadelphia Young Playwrights); Jouska Play Works Inaugural Member (Simpatico Theatre Company).

[member of Shoe Box Theatre Collective]

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Playwriting 

COMPLETED

• The Medusa Play (Full-Length; Themes of Racial Injustice; WORLD PREMIERE @ Shoe Box Theatre Collective- Barrymore Recommended Production)

  • Who is the black artist? Who is Medusa? ​

• The White Feather Project @ Ursinus College  (Director and Playwright)

  • The White Feather Project is a theatre piece devised from interviews of the Ursinus community concerning cowardice under racial stress. Accompanying the final performances and script, a website including a reading list, video diaries (of the process), and original blog posts will be available for public and academic use long after the project’s completion. ​

• Com[promising] Freedom (One- Act; Historical Fiction; Produced @ The National Constitution Center

  • "What will we do with all this freedom?"- Elizabeth Powell​ and her peers ask themselves this question in studying for their final history exam about The Declaration of Independence.

    • Click here to read an article

• Pedestals (Monologue; Themes of Racial Injustice; Produced @ Interact Theater Company)

  • After assaulting a peer due to a racially charged incident, an African-American star student is confronted by her principal and her future

    • Click here to watch a recording of Pedestals

    • Philadelphia Young Playwright's podcast series "Mouthful" interviewed me about Pedestals. Listen to the podcast here!​

• The Playground (Full-length; Themes of Mental Health; How I Learned to Write Festival & produced @ Ursinus College)

  • High school senior Grey Bowman tries to reorient himself after a severe trauma involving himself and a childhood best friend.

• Editorial for Grid Magazine about my experience as a young artist of color.

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IN-DEVELOPMENT ​

• Twenty-Six (One-Act)

• Rice & Em Fight a Lion

  • On-going, world-building exercise exploring the intersections of (non-binary) gender and race in the digital age.

For more information (commissions, writing samples, inquiries), please email

Directing & PRODUCING

COMPLETED

• The Medusa Play by Ang Bey @ Shoe Box Theatre Collective (New Work) [Co-Director with Ryan Rebel & Playwright]

•  The White Feather Project  @ Ursinus College & Shoe Box Short Theatre Festival (New Work; Devised)  [Director, Playwright, & Producer] ​

• Twenty-Six by Ang Bey @ Ursinus College (New Work) [Director & Playwright]

• Little Dancer by Ang Bey @ Ursinus College (New Work) [Director & Playwright]

• The Medusa Play by Ang Bey @ Ursinus College & AAI (Workshop Readings) [Director, Producer, & Playwright]

• Daffodil by Arthur Robinson @ Ursinus College (New Work) [Director]

• The Playground  by Ang Bey @ Ursinus College (New Work; Workshop Reading) [Director & Playwright]

• 8 the Play by Dustin Lance Black  @ Friends Select School (Staged Reading) [Director]

• High School Daze! by Ang Bey @ Friends Select School (New Work) [Co-Director with Jenny Hayden & Producer]

• Dracula by Paul Olsen @ Friends Select School [Director & Producer]

• The Guardian by Ang Bey @ Episcopal Academy Play Slam [Director]

For more information, please email

Resume

Click here to download a copy of my artistic resume. Click here to download a copy of my arts administration resume.

Contact

For acting work, commissions, collaboration inquiries, and general questions, please email Ang directly at

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Writing samples, reels, and letters of recommendation available upon request.