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Ma-Yi Theater Company is a professional, not-for-profit, Obie Award and Drama Desk Award winning theater company based in New York City that was founded in 1989. Ma-Yi Theater is headed by Executive Director Jorge Ortoll and Artistic Director Ralph Peña. Some of its more notable productions include:
Alice Tuan's Last of the Suns
Ralph Peña's Flipzoids
Sung Rno's wAve
Lonnie Carter's The Romance of Magno Rubio.
Lloyd Suh's "The Children of Vonderly" and "American Hwangap"
Qui Nguyen's "Soul Samurai"
Michi Barall's "Rescue Me: A postmodern classic with snacks"
Michael Lew's "Microcrisis"
In 2006, Ma-Yi Theater Company's production of Warren Leight's No Foreigners Beyond This Point received a Drama Desk nomination for Best Play. In 2010, Ma-Yi Theater received a Special Drama Desk Award for Excellence.
Savage Stage: Plays by Ma-Yi Theater Company is an anthology of selected new works developed and produced by the company since its founding. Edited by Ma-Yi's Literary Manager, Joi Barrios, "Savage Stage" was published in 2007.
Ma-Yi Theater Company is a participant in "Artography: Arts in a Changing America", a pilot program launched by LINC that seeks to map new arts practices in the United States resulting from demographic shifts.
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