NuWorks Festival
June 13-21, 2026

Happy To Be Here

Miguel Sutedjo is a musical theater writer, music director, performer, and educator. As an Indonesian American of Chinese descent, Miguel aspires to tell stories that make people feel seen. 

His full-length show "Fly Me Away: An Asian American Jazz Musical" (as showcased by Carnegie Hall, Songbyrd Demo Funding, and the Museum of Chinese in America) released a concept short film on YouTube. Other writing credits include “Mulan: A Children’s Musical” at the “Flowers in Changhua” Festival in Taiwan and "Theseus and Ariadne" at the Narni International Vocal Festival in Italy. MD of The Opening (Players Theater). BMI MT Workshop. 

Until the First Snow

Tanya Ko-Hong (고현혜) is an award-winning Korean American playwright, poet, translator, and cultural curator whose work explores memory, war, displacement, and bilingual identity. She is the author of five books, including The War Still Within (2019). Her multilingual play Comfort Woman (위안부: 푸른꽃), adapted from her poetry, has been developed through staged readings and performances in New York and Los Angeles. Ko-Hong’s honors include the Yun Dong-ju Korean American Literature Award, the Dritëro Agolli Award, and the Medada Award at the Ditët e Naimit International Poetry Festival. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles.

www.tanyakohong.com

Tea on Robert

Amy Pan is an NYC-based actor and playwright who is thrilled to return to Pan Asian Rep! She last worked with them as the writer of "Highlighter Girl" in NuWorks 2022. Most recently, her co-written play Perpetual Felicity was produced in Arthouse 2B's 2025 New Works Festival and reached Finalist status for the 2024 Clive Awards. And a shortened version of "The Tea on Robert" premiered at Actors Theatre of Louisville's Storytelling Revolution Festival in April 2026.    

A Water Play

Katie May Porter (Artist/Performer/Writer) is an actor, filmmaker, engineer, and native New Yorker. She has a degree in Chemical Engineering with a minor in Theater Arts from MIT – and has long since been balancing both her left-brain engineering and right-brain creative worlds. Katie has collaborated with The Peoplehood since 2019 and bonded over issues of safe water. Past performances include work with: Ma-Yi Theater Company/2G, National Arts Club, Asian American International Screenplay Competition, Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival, Cape May Stage, The Vagrancy, and the Open Fist Theatre Company. IG: @ActressEngineer

ALLIES

JEFF LIU co-wrote and acted in the indie film THE LAST TOUR, directed by Ryun Yu. He also developed and directed L’OPERA by Kurt Kanazawa and YOUR MOVIE GUIDE TO LIFE by Bee Vang for NuWorks.

ZAKIYA YOUNG appeared on Broadway in STICK FLY and The LITTLE MERMAID.  She also wrote and performed her solo show SUBURBAN BLACK GIRL and starred in PRETTY LITTLE LIARS: ORIGINAL SIN on HBOMAX.

FRANKY D. GONZALEZ is a Latino Dallas-based playwright-performer.  His work as a performer include his solo shows PALETAS DE COCO (Ars Nova ANTFest and Latino Theater Co.) and HEART STOP (Workshop Theater).

She Said Fuck That's a Pretty Giant Deep Ocean

JINGYI LUNA PENG (She/Her) is an actor and writer born and raised in Beijing, China, and is currently based in New York City. Recent acting credits: The Pill Play (Actors Temple Theater), Anti-Gone (Edinburgh Fringe, A.R.T./New York Theater), Of Ashes and Souls (The Flea), Femme 9 19 (AMT Theater). New York University 26', BFA Theater & Media, Culture, and Communication. For more: https://umaygonowhere.com/about/