Our Team

Yibin Wang is a New York-based theater and performance director hailing from Hangzhou, China. Yibin’s interdisciplinary work delves into cross-cultural experiences, new technology, and vibrant audience relationships. He was the Co-curator of Designing Care, an interdisciplinary community art project in Hangzhou, China. His recent projects include “A Hunger Artist: (Lenfest Center for Arts), “Three-Second Angels” (TheaterLab), “A Tree Has Not Yet Woken Up In A Dream” (Beijing International Youth Theater Festival), “A Theater Letter To You” (Columbia University), “The Vanya Project” (Columbia University).

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Director/Co-conceiver

YIBIN WANG 王亦斌

Dramaturg/Co-conceiver

SUN YEJIA 孙也佳

孙也佳 Sun Yejia is a dramaturg/artist/scholar from Beijing, China, and based in United States. Working with Tongues, she is excited to work with multilingual communities to create documentary works. In New York, her dramaturgical/writing of multidisciplinary works are performed at National Sawdust, Exponential Festival(JACK), Cellunova New Play Festival(Theaterlab), Chain Theater, International Human Rights Art Festival (The Tank), Accent Sisters etc. In China, her dramaturgical works were presented at Goethe Institute Shanghai, Rockbound Museum, Young Theater, Shenzhen Shekou Theater festival. She received funding support from the Davis Project for Peace Fellowship, Lisa Lu Scholarship, The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Public Humanities Initiative and more. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Performance Studies at Northwestern University. (www.yejiasun.com)

Creative Producer

RUBY WANG 汪翔宇

Ruby Wang is a New York-based, Hangzhou-born theatre producer and arts administrator. Selected theatrical credits include production manager of La Cocina (The New School), creative producer of Tongues (Exponential Festival), line producer of Phaedra’s Love (Lenfest Center for the Arts), and producer of Antlers (Schapiro Theater). Past work experience in The Pekoe Group, Broadway & Beyond Theatricals, Nederlander Organization, Signature Theatre, and more. With a background in Marketing, she holds a passion for audience development and community engagement. MFA in Theatre Management and Producing at Columbia.

Teaching Artists

ZINC TONG

"Zinc" Tong (they/them) is a multidisciplinary theater maker and teaching artist. They're happy and capable of taking on almost all hats in theater, as well as spreading the joy of performance-making to their students. Website: xinzinctong.com

MICHI ZAYA

Michi Zaya (any pronoun) is a Mongolian storyteller of all trades, based in Brooklyn. Michi’s work can be seen on stage as a performer/actor, projections designer, and director. Recent works include: Directing Credits- A RARE BIRD (Breaking the Binary Theatre, Playwrights Horizons), wAve (Brooklyn College, The Public Theater), The CALICO (Under St Marks), DIG IN (Connelly Theater), ANCIENT HISTORY (The Tank), and THE BOY WHO BURNT HIS VILLAGE DOWN, MA AME Capstone Award Winning media project based on interviews with the tenants and workers of Manhattan Chinatown. michizaya.com

MIA ZHU

Zhixuan (Mia) Zhu is a theatre and performance researcher, freelance translator, proud dog and plant parent, amateur photographer, part-time illustrator, passionate cook, and fervent biker. She sees her goal of life on earth as to see beauty in the most impossible places, to hear thunder where there is no sound. If anytime you cannot find her, she’s on the roof.

RITA LIU

Rita Liu (she/her) is a Taiwanese movement artist, story listener, and feeling supporter. She enjoys making warm and soft theatrical experiences that play with the juxtaposition between movements, interviews, and text-based soundscapes. Rita believes that theatre can teach us how to listen deeply to ourselves, others, and the daily world. Therefore, she is now on a journey facilitating creative workshops with non-theatre people, and inviting them to create arts from their lives. As a teaching artist, Rita has partnered with Waterwell Drama Program, Queens Theater, and Creative Caregivers. She has also been an actress and director in various productions, including The Good Soul of Szechuan, All in the Timing, If We Were Birds and other independent works. Rita holds a MA in Educational Theatre from NYU. https://rita-liu.com

OM RAJ RAUT ओम राज राउत

Om Raj Raut, a native of a mountain village in Nepal, discovered his passion for theater during his teenage years amidst the challenges of the civil war. Moving to the U.S. on an International Dean's Scholarship for Drama, he earned a BA in Theatre from CCNY. His solo show, 1953: Race for the Summit, earned acclaim with nominations for Best Actor at the New York Theater Festival and Best Dramatic Playwright at the Frigid New York Theatre Festival, along with a sold-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Other notable credits include Pirate Christmas Carol, Our Lady of 121st Street, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
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ANDY LAW 羅子俊

Andy is a NYC-based actor and singer. He received his training from HB Studio. He made his off-off Broadway debut in February 2024 with Look How Far You’ve Come at Chain Theatre. Notable theatrical performances include The Northbound Train (Schapiro Hall), Three Second Angel (Theatre Lab), Thank You For Listening (Sara Roosevelt Park). Also, Never Have I Ever a short film. And the upcoming web series THE SWEAT SHOP directed/written by Erik Potempa.

Instagram: @andytclaw

CATALINA BELTRÁN (she/her) is a theatre director from Bogotá, Colombia. With strong roots in devised theatre, her work has gravitated towards original work, either devised or new plays by young writers. She has recently worked as a teaching artist and a director for the projects The Space We Share (People’s Theatre Project & Working Theater), and Adiós Papá (ID Studio Theater). Drama League Directing Assistantship 2025. New Perspectives Women’s Work LAB 2025. Training: M.F.A. Theatre Directing at Columbia University 24’. Website