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The Board of DirectorsBoD Episode 3: Mei Ann TeoMei Ann Teo (they/them) is a queer immigrant from Singapore, an artistic leader, theatre maker, and educator whose work bridges the intersections of the artistic, the civic, and the contemplative. As a director, deviser, and dramaturg, Teo creates across genres, from music theatre and reimagined classics to intermedial participatory projects and documentary theatre, always with a deep curiosity for how performance can reimagine our shared world.Teo has directed and developed an extraordinary range of productions across the U.S. and internationally. Their directing credits include Jillian Walker’s SKiNFoLK: An American Show at Th...
2025-11-031h 14
The State of ShakespeareMei Ann TeoTwelfth Night Folger TheaterJune 18, 2025
“Most wonderful!” Olivia’s (ahem) climactic outburst isn’t just a line, it’s the line that catches the spirit of director Mei Ann Teo’s current production of Twelfth Night at the Folger Theatre. Teo, who also serves as Artistic Leader at Ping Chong and Company, teases how to treat Shakespeare’s classic as if it’s a new love (er… play.)
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2025-06-1835 min
Onstage DMVOnstage DMV with PORGY AND BESS and TWELFTH NIGHTTwo interview segments this month! Washington National Opera Artistic Director Francesca Zambello talks about her upcoming production of PORGY AND BESS at the Kennedy Center. Then we're joined by Mei Ann Teo, director, and Lilli Hokama and Alyssa Keegan, stars of Folger Theatre's new production of TWELFTH NIGHT, to discuss one of the Bard's most popular comedies and its relevance today, five hundred years after it opened..
2025-05-0344 min
Empowered Artist Collective Podcast - for actors, singers, dancers, writers, creators and performers114. Playwright Mini-Series: Letting Intuition Lead with Amy BerrymanWhat happens when we let go of expectations and write from a place of trusting your intuition? In this first episode of our Playwright Mini-Series, Jennifer chats with playwright, writer, and screenwriter Amy Berryman about navigating her writer's journey with intention, agency, and a little “woo.” Amy shares how different forms of writing activate different parts of her brain, how intuitive playwriting lets her characters lead the way, and how outlining for screen projects often starts before the fun begins. She dives into her process, shares her philosophy on residencies or self-made retreats, and offers actionable tools for giving your...
2025-04-291h 03
The StageLync PodcastEpisode 164 – Multidisciplined theatre art with Patricia MarjoriePatricia Marjorie is a Brazilian multidisciplinary theatre artist based in New York with works on costume design, props, set design, directing and performing. Her past works include: Wolf Play directed by Dustin Wills at MCC, Public Obscenities at SOHO REP written and directed by Shayok Misha Chowdhury; costume and props for Modern Swimwear directed by Meghan Finn. Patricia’s recent works include: costume designer for Simon and His Shoes by Meghan Finn; set design for Re MEMORI by Nambi E. Kelley (WP Theater); props for You Will Get Sick directed by Sam Pinkelton (Roundabout Theatre); Montag directed by Dustin Wi...
2023-03-1253 min
Brooklyn, USA62 | The Worker Doesn't Go AwayArt has long been a lever for working class solidarity and social justice. It’s also a collaborative form of labor that props up some workers and devalues others. This week, we're taking a long, hard look at two works of art: Rodrigo Valenzuela: New Works for a Post Worker’s World, an exhibition on view at BRIC House through December 23rd, and 7 MINUTES, a play produced by Waterwell that premiered at HERE Arts Center last spring. • Brooklyn, USA is produced by Emily Boghossian, Shirin Barghi, Charlie Hoxie, Khyriel Palmer, and Mayumi Sato. If you have something to say and wa...
2022-11-1635 min
American Theatre OffscriptOffscript: Mei Ann Teo Finds Strength in the CollectiveOn this episode the editors talk to the director of the drama '7 Minutes' about labor, management, and new-play development .
2022-03-2500 min
Token Theatre Friends7 Minutes to Change the WorldIn this episode, Jose speaks to the director and cast of 7 Minutes. The Waterwell production is a translation of Stefano Massini's play, making its American debut at HERE Arts from March 17 - April 10, 2022. Director Mei Ann Teo speaks about what drew them to the play, while actors Nicole Ansari, Jojo Brown, and Ebony Marshall-Oliver comment on what it's like to work in an ensemble constituted exclusively by BIPOC women. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2022-03-2446 min
Thesis on JoanAn Awakened State with Mei Ann TeoMei Ann Teo, theatre, film maker, and Associate Artistic Director of New Work at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, stops by the podcast to give Harrow and Meghan a master class in civically minded art, church skits as artistic awakenings, queer plays written by “straight” identifying teens, liberation as a way to subvert the grand narrative and the life changing moment that set them on the path to being a devised theater creator. She shares more about the unique way that Oregon Shakespeare Festival @OSFashland is approaching the artistic director role and how we need to all come to terms with our...
2021-11-031h 10
Dear Multi-hyphenate#27 - Mei Ann Teo: Passion & PurposeMei Ann Teo is the current Artistic Director of Musical Theatre Factory in New York City. They are a queer immigrant from Singapore making theatre & film at the intersection of artistic/civic/contemplative practice. As an artistic director, they allow budding multi-hyphenates thrive and create new work. Teo is an extremely grounded, soulful, and charming person who allows for some spiritual conversation on art - especially on one of my favorite topics: passion vs. purpose. This episode marks the start of the NEW Dear Multi-Hyphenate with interactive qualities that push the listener into a creative direction designed specifically to...
2020-09-1750 min
TA(L)KING DIRECTIONIn Conversation with Mei Ann Teo
Recorded on July 17, 2020
The skillfully compassionate director and visionary arts leader Mei Ann Teo joins the series from her native country of Singapore. Nilan, Associate Artistic Director, moderates the discussion from Teo's thoughts on consciously decreasing harm in the workplace, the work of the auteur, her work as Producing Artistic Director of Musical Theatre Factory, and so much more.
IN CONVERSATION, The Drama League's acclaimed series of discussions with the directors changing the face of theater, television, and film, is now online! The process of creating art is revealed in these intimate, surprising, and wide-ranging conversations with award-winning creat...
2020-07-2958 min
Brooklyn Free Speech RadioBackstage @ BRIC: A conversation with the BRIClab team behind La NegraB.J. Evans, Senior Producer of Performing Arts at BRIC, hosts a bi-monthly show where she gives listeners a behind-the-scenes look at what's coming up at BRIC and talks to BRIC-affiliated artists about their work.The new BRIClab Season has begun at BRIC and the first BRIClab of the season is La Negra: A Theatrical Installation/An event to Honor your Dead. Join B.J. with her special guest co-host Mei Ann Teo (director) as they talk to Raquel Almazan (writer/performer) and Benjamin Rojas (Ofrenda installation artist) about the piece. Hosted & produced b...
2019-09-2040 minBrooklyn Free Speech RadioBackstage @ BRIC with Sophia Mak, Bex Kwan, and Mei Ann TeoB.J. Evans, Senior Producer of Performing Arts at BRIC, hosts a bi-monthly show where she gives listeners a behind-the-scenes look at what’s coming up at BRIC and talks to BRIC-affiliated artists about their work. This episode features BRIClab artists Sophia Mak & Bex Kwan, and their director/dramaturg Mei Ann Teo, who talk about their upcoming project, Double Yolk Moon. Through shadow, sound, and movement, they unearth family mythologies and histories of foreignness as queer Chinese people in the United States. Work-in-progress showings of Double Yolk Moon are Thursday, March 14th at 7pm and Fri...
2019-03-1326 min
Brown 'n Out PodcastEpisode 24: Noa Coffey-MooreEpisode 24 of Brown 'n Out, a discussion with Noa Coffey-Moore
Noa Coffey-Moore is a Black Queer TransNonbinary Femme*. They are a writer, comunity educator, & multimedia artist, working for black femme liberation & well-being. Noa has a Bachelor of Arts in Social Justice Education, Creative Writing & Theater from Hampshire College.
Their college theater advisors were Mei Ann Teo and Djola Branner. They studied poetry with John Murrillo, Aracelis Girmay, & Michael Dumanis.
The third part of their thesis was creating social justice curriculum for youth. They've worked with both Farm & Widlerness Camps & Camp Outright doing this...
2019-01-2147 min