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Ralph B. Peña is a founding member and the current artistic director of Ma-Yi Theater Company, an Obie Award and Drama Desk winning Asian American theatre group based in New York City. As a playwright, his works include Flipzoids, Project: Balangiga, This End Up, and Loose Leaf Bindings. He received an Obie Award for his work on The Romance of Magno Rubio. Recent directing credits include Lloyd Suh's "The Wong Kids in the Secret of the Space Chupacabra Go! (Children's Theater Company, MN, and New York), Michael Lew's Microcrisis, Lloyd Suh's Children of Vonderly, Nicky Paraiso's House/Boy for LaMama ETC, and the Singapore and Dublin Theater Festivals, Nicolas Pichay's "Macho Dancer: A Musical," A. Rey Pamatmat's "House Rules, and Hansol Jung's "Among The Dead."

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  • Ralph B. Peña is a founding member and the current artistic director of Ma-Yi Theater Company, an Obie Award and Drama Desk winning Asian American theatre group based in New York City. As a playwright, his works include Flipzoids, Project: Balangiga, This End Up, and Loose Leaf Bindings. He received an Obie Award for his work on The Romance of Magno Rubio. Recent directing credits include Lloyd Suh's "The Wong Kids in the Secret of the Space Chupacabra Go! (Children's Theater Company, MN, and New York), Michael Lew's Microcrisis, Lloyd Suh's Children of Vonderly, Nicky Paraiso's House/Boy for LaMama ETC, and the Singapore and Dublin Theater Festivals, Nicolas Pichay's "Macho Dancer: A Musical," A. Rey Pamatmat's "House Rules, and Hansol Jung's "Among The Dead." (en)
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  • Ralph B. Peña is a founding member and the current artistic director of Ma-Yi Theater Company, an Obie Award and Drama Desk winning Asian American theatre group based in New York City. As a playwright, his works include Flipzoids, Project: Balangiga, This End Up, and Loose Leaf Bindings. He received an Obie Award for his work on The Romance of Magno Rubio. Recent directing credits include Lloyd Suh's "The Wong Kids in the Secret of the Space Chupacabra Go! (Children's Theater Company, MN, and New York), Michael Lew's Microcrisis, Lloyd Suh's Children of Vonderly, Nicky Paraiso's House/Boy for LaMama ETC, and the Singapore and Dublin Theater Festivals, Nicolas Pichay's "Macho Dancer: A Musical," A. Rey Pamatmat's "House Rules, and Hansol Jung's "Among The Dead." Ralph was born in Manila, the Philippines, to Alfonso S. Peña, and Josephine D. Bayron. He spent his younger years in Manila, and California, before moving permanently to the U.S. in 1984. During his time in the Philippines, Ralph helped found a street performance company called Bodabil, later renamed UP Peryante. The group, led by , used vaudeville as a form of protest theater against the Marcos dictatorship. His experiences in performing and organizing would serve him well after founding Ma-Yi Theater Company in New York City, in the summer of 1989, along with colleagues from the Philippines. He became Ma-Yi Theater’s Artistic Director in 1996. Since then, and in partnership with Jorge Z. Ortoll, Ma-Yi’s Executive Director, Ralph has worked to make Ma-Yi Theater Company one of the country’s leading venue for new Asian American Theater. As part of his work with Ma-Yi Theatre, Peña directed the world premiere of Hansol Jung's Among the Dead in 2016. He resides in New York City. (en)
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