Pan Asian Repertory Theatre

The Pan Asian Repertory Theatre is a New York City-based theatre group that explores the Asian-American experience and provides professional opportunities for Asian-American artists to collaborate.

Pan-Asian was founded by Tisa Chang and Ernest Abuba in 1977, and Chang remains artistic director.

[1] Chang established the Pan Asian Repertory Theatre as a resident company at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in 1977, with the intention of popularizing Asian-American theater and leading to other similar theatre companies in cities with an Asian disaporic population.

[2][3] Specializing in intercultural productions of new Asian-American plays,[3] Asian classics in translation, and innovative adaptations of Western classics,[2] some of the works Pan Asian has presented included: Pan Asian has staged early works of writers including Momoko Iko, Wakako Yamauchi, Philip Kan Gotanda, R. A. Shiomi, and David Henry Hwang.

When they established a residency program in 1987, Pan Asian became the United States' first resident Asian American theater company continuing with Chang's goal to showcase Asian American theater as having a role in the city's theater scene.