May Liang (she/her)
Director
May Liang is a Stage Director/Theater Artist of Color based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has worked with American Conservatory Theater, Bay Area Children’s Theatre, Bay Area Playwrights Foundation, Berkeley Repertory Theater’s Ground Floor Lab, Bindlestiff Studios, California Shakespeare Theater, Contra Costa Civic Theater, Crowded Fire Theater Company (Resident Artist), Cutting Ball Theater, Ferocious Lotus Theater Company (Literary Manager, Producer, Artistic Director), Just Theater, Nevada Conservatory Theatre at the University of Nevada – Las Vegas, Oakland Theater Project, PlayGround Center for New Plays (Directing Fellow 2017), San Francisco Playhouse, Shotgun Players, TheaterFirst, and TheaterWorks . May was a member of the 2017 Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab in New York City and a member of the Director’s cohort for the 2019 Directors Lab Chicago. She was nominated for Outstanding Direction of a Play at the 2018 Theater Bay Area Awards for INSIDE OUT AND BACK AGAIN at Bay Area Children’s Theatre. Her most recent work include the West Coast Premier of “Endlings” by Celine Song at Oakland Theater Project and “She Kills Monsters” at the Nevada Conservatory Theatre.
She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a double major in Theater and Performance Studies and Integrative Biology and currently works at the San Francisco Entertainment Commission. She previously worked at the San Francisco Film Commission – Film SF and was involved in productions such as BALLERS on HBO and SENSE8 and ALWAYS BE MY MAYBE on Netflix. In another life, she was a Campaign Organizer/Activist for immigrant rights with ASPIRE – the first Pan-Asian undocumented immigrant youth organization housed under Asian Law Caucus in San Francisco.
