Min Kahng

Disciplines: Theatre – musical theatre
Disciplines: Theatre – musical theatre
Based in Los Angeles, CA
Residencies: 2022
More: www.minkahng.com
Original Cast Album for GOLD: The Midas Musical
Original Cast Album for Where the Mountain Meets the Moon: A Musical Adaptation
Original Cast Album for The Four Immigrants: An American Musical Manga

Min Kahng is a musical theatre writer whose works include The Four Immigrants and Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, the Musical.

He is a Travis Bogard Fellow and an alumnus of the Playwrights Foundation, Djerassi, Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor, and the TheatreWorks New Works Festival. He is also a recipient of the Edgerton New Play Award (2017), the NAMT Production and Writers Residency Grants (2017 & 2019), and the San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award (2018 & 2026).

While at MacDowell, Kahng worked on orchestrations and underscoring for The Adventures of Honey & Leon, the Musical, which opened at New York City Children’s Theater in 2022. He also worked on creating the piano score for Happy Pleasant Valley: A Senior Sex Scandal Murder Mystery Musical, which premiered at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley and CenterREP in 2025.

Studios

Sprague-Smith

Min Kahng worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.

In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up…

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