Theater Mu, (Formerly Mu Performing Arts), located in Saint Paul, Minnesota, is an Asian American arts organization in the Midwest, the second largest in the country.
"[2] Theater Mu was founded in 1992 by playwright, director,[clarification needed] and taiko artist Rick Shiomi, along with Dong-il Lee, Diane Espaldon, and Martha Johnson.
Randy Reyes took over as Artistic Director, and was subsequently fired by the Mu Board in 2018.
[4][5] Since its inception in 1993, Theater Mu's New Eyes Festival has been an annual tradition featuring staged readings of new works, and continues to the theater's longest running program.
Mu's productions have included world premieres of new works by Leah Nanako Winkler and local playwright May Lee-Yang, re-imagined productions of Shakespeare and Sondheim musicals, and collaborations with other theaters such as Mixed Blood Theatre Company, Jungle Theater, Penumbra Theatre Company, Park Square Theatre and Guthrie Theater to bring plays by award-winning playwrights such as David Henry Hwang, Carla Ching, and Lauren Yee.