Min Kahng
Composer
Dramatist
Playwright
Lyricist
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Min Kahng (he/him) is an award-winning musical theatre writer whose works include Happy Pleasant Valley: A Senior Sex Scandal Murder Mystery Musical (NAMT-Recommended, San Francsisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award); The Four Immigrants: An American Musical Manga (SFBATCC Award, NAMT Production Grant, Edgerton New Play Award); Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, the Musical; GOLD: The Midas Musical; The Adventures of Honey & Leon, the Musical; The Song of the Nightingale and Tales of Olympus.
Kahng is a MacDowell Fellow, a Eugene O'Neill Foundation Travis Bogard Fellow, and an alumnus of the Playwrights Foundation Resident Initiative, Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor, Djerassi, Willapa Bay AiR, and the TheatreWorks New Works Festival. He has been invited as a Guest Lecturer/Artist at Harvard University, Stanford University, UC Berkeley, San Jose State University and The San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Kahng is an NEA Grant Recipient, a Jonathan Larson Grant Finalist, a Richard Rodgers Award Finalist, and a Dramatists Guild committee member. www.minkahng.com
Highlights
Publications Committee Member
Compensation Survey Working Group
Instructor, Dramatists Guild Institute, Songaturgy: The Dramaturgy of a Song
Contributor to The Dramatist, "What I've Learned About Commissions"
Contributor to The Dramatist, "What obstacles are you navigating?"
Contributor to The Dramatist, "Making Connections"
Contributor to The Dramatist, "California – North Season in Review 2022-2023"
Contributor to Young Dramatists, "Dramatists Bill of Rights, Royalties"
Guild Highlights Panelist, Radical Hope & The New Resistance, Dramatists Guild Town Hall, San Francisco, CA
Contributor to The Dramatist, "What are the Obligations of Writing Outside Your Own Ethnicity?"
Contributor to The Dramatist, "On Writing for Young Audiences, Part Two"
