Mei Ann Teo
Mei Ann Teo (she/they) is a theatre/film maker who works at the intersection of artistic/civic/contemplative practice to shift culture towards justice and compassion. As a director/devisor/dramaturg, she collaborates across genres, including multi-form performance, music theatre, and intermedial participatory work. She was featured at MIT’s symposium: Next Wave: The Future of Asian American Theatre. She is a National Directing Fellow and was profiled in the American Theatre feature "Role Call: Theatre Workers to Watch." Teo’s work has toured the U.S. and at international festivals including Belgium's Festival de Liege (Lyrics From Lockdown, “Truly polished, meaningful and entertaining” -New York Times); Edinburgh (MiddleFlight, “Stunning” -Scotsman), M1 Singapore (The Shape of a Bird, "Superb staging" - Straits Times), and Beijing (Labyrinth - "Top 8" in Beijing News). She has developed new work across the country, including the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Phil Killian Fellow), Goodman Theatre, and Berkeley Rep. Recent and current work includes: the world premiere and 25 city tour in China of Dim Sum Warriors by Colin Goh and Yen Yen Woo (composed by Pulitzer Prize winner Du Yun); Diana Oh’s Clairvoyance at ART Oberon; Jillian Walker's ’17 Songs of Speculation at JACK and SKiNFoLK: An American Show at SPARK festival and MTF; Nia Witherspoon’s Dark Girl Chronicles at BAX, JACK, and Playwrights Realm, to premiere at The Shed; Double Yolk Moon with Bex Kwan and Sophia Mak at BricLab and the Highline; and Madeleine Sayer’s Where We Belong at the Globe in London. Her short film, Let Me Kill My Mother First, was an official selection of the 2018 Singapore International Film Festival. Mei Ann is the Producing Artistic Director of Musical Theatre Factory, a Resident Company of Playwrights Horizons.
News
Theatre Directing alumni Mei Ann Teo ’14 and Shayok Misha Chowdhury ’16 will present their work at Prelude Festival 2020. Teo will present her piece hold, and Chowdhury will present episodes from his series Vichitra.
Theatre alumni Shayok Misha Chowdhury ’16, Celine Song ’14, and Mei Ann Teo ’14 will be guest speakers in The Path Forward Virtual Conference, which aims to teach artists new tools for success in the pandemic era.
SKiNFoLK: An American Show by alumna Jillian Walker ’17 was selected as a New York Times Critic’s Pick. The production had its first presentation at The Bushwick Starr as a part of the Star Reading Series in 2016. We spoke with Walker about the play’s inaugural reading in 2016. This season, SKiNFoLK returned to the Bushwick Starr with a full length production. The 2020 critically acclaimed production is directed by alumna Mei Ann Teo ’14.
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