{"id":9160,"date":"2025-06-17T20:25:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T00:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=9160"},"modified":"2025-06-18T09:40:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T13:40:31","slug":"aditi-kapil-about-the-artist-13-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=9160","title":{"rendered":"Mei Ann Teo: About the Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Click here to listen to Mei Ann’s interview.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mei Ann Teo<\/strong> (Director)<\/em> makes theatre and film at the intersection of artistic\/civic\/contemplative practice. As a director\/devisor\/dramaturg, Teo creates across genres, including music theatre, intermedial participatory work, reimagining classics, and documentary theatre. Teo\u2019s work has been in international festivals including Belgium\u2019s Festival de Liege (Lyrics from Lockdown <\/em>by Bryonn Bain), Edinburgh International Fringe, Beijing International Festival (Labyrinth<\/em> \u2013 Top 8 of Fest inBeijing News<\/em>), Singapore Theatre Festival (Becoming A Character<\/em>). Teo helmed Dim Sum Warriors the Musical by Colin Goh and Yen Yen Woo, composed by Pulitzer Prize winner Du Yun for national China twenty-five city tour. Mei Ann has directed and\/or developed new work at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, TheatreWorks Hartford, the Playwrights Realm, Goodman Theatre, Public Theater, the Ground Floor at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Crowded Fire Theater, History Theatre, Page 73, Musical Theatre Factory, and the National Black Theatre. Work includes Jillian Walker\u2019s world premiere SKiNFoLK: An<\/em> American Show<\/em>, Madeline Sayet\u2019s Where We Belong at Folger Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, and the national tour, the North American premiere of Amy Berryman\u2019s Walden <\/em>at TheatreWorks Hartford (Best Production and Directo r- Connecticut Critics Award), and the English US premiere of Stefano Massini\u2019s 7 Minutes<\/em> at Waterwell. Mei Ann received the League of Professional Theatre Women\u2019s Josephine Abady Award, is the inaugural recipient of the Lily Fan Director Lilly Award, and has formerly served in artistic leadership as the Artistic Director of Musical Theatre Factory and the Associate Artistic Director and Director of New Work at Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Mei Ann is currently an artistic leader at Ping Chong and Company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Click here to listen to Mei Ann’s interview. Mei Ann Teo (Director) makes theatre and film at the intersection of artistic\/civic\/contemplative practice. As a director\/devisor\/dramaturg, Teo creates across genres, including music theatre, intermedial participatory work, reimagining classics, and documentary theatre. Teo\u2019s work has been in international festivals including Belgium\u2019s Festival de Liege (Lyrics from Lockdown<\/p>\n [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9160","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-line-bottom","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2Frfq-2nK","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9160"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9173,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9160\/revisions\/9173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}