Resume/CV
Chi-wang Yang, Theater Director

Training

California Institute of the Arts 
MFA Theater Directing & Integrated Media
w/ Travis Preston, Erik Ehn, Lewis Klahr, Janie Geiser, Tom Leeser, Chris Barreca, Sara Roberts 

Brown University
BA Theater Arts
w/ Alice Tuan, John Emigh, Spencer Golub, Lowry Marshall, Michelle Bach-Coulibaly

SITI Company
Suzuki & Viewpoints Training, 2000-2005
w/ Anne Bogart & Company members Saratoga Summer Intensive & NYC training workshops

The Kitchen Summer Institute
New York, 2005
w/ Christina Yang, Ong Keng Sen, Katie Salen, Yasuko Yokoshi, Dean Moss

Freehold Theatre Lab
Seattle, Intensive Biomechanics workshop, 1998
w/ Genadi Bogdanov

National Theater Institute
Conservatory acting training program, 1997
w/ Richard Digby-Day, Jackie Villamil, Gillian Lane-Plescia, Donna DiNovelli
Performance History

New Original Works (NOW) Festival, REDCAT, 2008
Presentation of Cloud Eye Control works

San Francisco International Film Festival, Featured Artist, 2008
Special presentation of Cloud Eye Control live performance

Vineland Staela, Director, REDCAT, 2007
World premier of a new concert-theater performance at REDCAT, w. Sandeep Bhagwati (Composer) and Mike Svboda (Trombone). 

Someone In Florida Loves Me, Director, CalArts, 2007
Workshop reading of new play by Jane Pickett

What to Wear?, Company Director, REDCAT, 2006
World premier of new opera w. Richard Foreman (Director & Libretto) & Michael Gordon (Composer). 

TBA: Time Based Arts Festival, Featured Artist, 2007
Evening-length presentation of Cloud Eye Control works

Platform International Animation Festival, Featured Artist, 2007
Presentation of Cloud Eye Control work

The Closest Farthest Away, Director, upcoming in 2009
A new play created by a collaboration of Cuban and American artists.  Principal video shoot completed in Havana in November 2007.  To be staged as a hybrid of cinema and theater. 

The Ocean Flight, Director, 2006
Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland. 

365 Plays/365 Days, by Suzan-Lori Parks, Director, New York Public Theater, 2007
Member of 3-d Theater Collective directing works for Week 38 plays in NYC 

Circle Course, Co-director, REDCAT NOW Festival, Two Rivers Theater, NJ, 2006
Original dance/theater piece featuring work of choreographer Mira Kingsley

Beyond the Horizon, by Eugene O'Neill, Director, CalArts, 2007
w/ composer Eric Lindley

Woyzeck, Director, CalArts, 2006
An original adaptation of Büchner’s classic combining the forms/experiences of theater and installation art

The Flight of the Lindberghs, by Bertolt Brecht, Director, Video Designer, CalArts, 2005

SWISH-PAN: tech baby kills history!, Co-director, Designer, Writer, Performer, 2000
New York International Fringe Festival

Dead on a Door (a family comedy), Co-director, Designer, Performer, M-Space NYC, 2000
Adaptation of Bela Lugosi’s performance in Dracula and Witkiewicz’s Comedies of Family Life
Teaching

California Institute of the Arts, Theater and Integrated Media faculty, 2008-09

Guest Artist at Concordia University (Montreal), CalArts, UCLA, Pitzer College, Pacific NW College of Art

Awards & Honors

Leslie Durst/Portland Institute for Contemporary Art Commission, 2008

NPN Creation Fund, 2008

Princess Grace Special Project Grant, 2008

TCG/Nathan Cummings Foundation Young Leaders Fellowship, 2008
Princess Grace George C. Wolfe Theater Award for Directing, 2006
Projects
~Woyzeck
~Beyond the Horizon
~Vineland Staele
~The Closest Farthest Away
 (La Entrañable Lejanía)

w/ Cloud Eye Control
~Ocean Flight
~Subterranean Heart
~Final Space
~Under Polaris

Other
~Desktop Theater