Hi, I’m Min.
I write musicals and plays, but mostly musicals. They’ve ranged from original work to adaptations, from regional to family and youth-facing theatre, from linear narrative to experimental theatrical rituals.
My work is often concerned with how story can create meaning, even when we recognize its artifice. This could be in writing characters who must discover or come to terms with the stories they believe. Or it could be in the very event of theatre, when we choose to immerse ourselves in something fantastical or otherworldly. Regardless of how it emerges, the act of finding meaning in stories is human, and I consider it a privilege to participate in this legacy.
With each story I tell, I try to build something sturdy enough to hold humor, surprise, emotional depth, and maybe even a little healing.
I’m currently based in Los Angeles, where I live with my husband and our dog Oso.
Bio
Min Kahng (he/him) is an award-winning musical theatre writer whose works include The Four Immigrants (San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award, NAMT Production Grant, Edgerton New Play Award); Happy Pleasant Valley (NAMT-Recommended, SFBATCC 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 Travis Bogard Fellow, and an alumnus of the Playwrights Foundation Resident Initiative, Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor, Djerassi, 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.