reid tang writes plays and things shaped like plays. Their work includes Isabel (NAATCO), DEBT (co-written w/ Adrian Einspanier, developed with Pride Plays, New York Stage and Film & Breaking the Binary Theatre), WORK HARD HAVE FUN MAKE HISTORY (Clubbed Thumb Summerworks), FUTURE WIFE (Relentless Award Honorable Mention, Goethe-Institut Beijing, Theatertreffen Stückemarkt), and Party in a Google Sheet (New Georges). They’ve been under commission with Breaking the Binary Theatre and New York Theatre Workshop, and a recipient of the Sundance Institute Interdisciplinary Program Grant. Currently, they’re a resident playwright at New Dramatists, and have been part of Ars Nova's Play Group, the New Georges Jam, Clubbed Thumb’s Early Career Writers' Group, and NYTW’s 2050 Fellowship. They grew up in Singapore and presently live in Brooklyn, NY.
At MacDowell, tang conducted initial research for a future play that lightly adapts Ursula Le Guin's The Dispossessed. Their play Isabel was featured in Theater (Winter 2026), a journal published by Yale University and Duke University Press. They are a Target Margin Institute Fellow 2025/26, and a resident playwright at New Dramatists.
