About the company
Ma-Yi Theater Company
About:Founded in 1989, Ma-Yi Theater Company is an Obie Award-winning, not-for-profit 501(3)(c) organization whose primary mission is to develop new plays and performance works that essay Asian American experiences. We provide a home where artists can take big creative risks and investigate new avenues of collaboration as they hone individual and collective skills. We encourage our artists to engage their communities in vigorous dialogues that push Asian American aesthetics beyond easily identifiable Orientalist markers. We challenge popular prescriptions of what culturally specific theater should be by producing challenging, forward-thinking plays written by today's emerging crop of new playwrights.
Productions (14)
A puppet play about a mixed-race family that relocates from Japan to the Pacific Northwest.
The life story of a woman who became part of the first Chinese physicists to win the Nobel Prize.
Ma-Yi Studios presents a new play that tells the stories of the current Hong Kong protests.
Ma-Yi presents an encore staging of "Suicide Forest," a bilingual nightmare play excavating the Japanese-American consciousness and its looming relationship with sex, suicide, and identity.
