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Chi-wang Yang is a theater director, interdisciplinary artist, and educator. Whether in the form of plays, operas, concerts or installation; his work is physical, experimental, and collaborative. He is committed to expanding notions of identity and theatrical form and to exploring strange encounters of body, emotion and technology.
He is a founding member and co-artistic director of video performance collective Cloud Eye Control. His work has been presented internationally at theaters, museums, and festivals including REDCAT, SFMoMA, Fusebox Festival, PICA TBA, San Francisco International Film Festival, EXIT Festival (France), Santiago a Mil (Chile), Manipulate (Scotland), Havana Film Festival, and the Edinburgh Fringe. Recent projects include directing the world premiere of Scene with Cranes written by Octavio Solis.
Prior to UW, Yang taught at the California Institute of the Arts, School of Theater where he also served as Associate Artistic Director of the CalArts Center for New Performance. He received his MFA in Theater Directing and Integrated Media at the California Institute of the Arts, and his BA from Brown University. Other training includes the SITI Company (NYC and Skidmore).
He is the recipient of the Princess Grace George C. Wolfe Theater Award for Directing, as well as a recipient of the MAP Fund, New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA), National Theater Project Grant, and National Performance Network (NPN), Creation Fund Grant. For more information, please visit https://mysteriously.org
