Project YZ: 2026 AAPI Artist Residency Program

Project YZ is Yangtze Repertory Theatre’s AAPI Artist Residency program. Launched in 2022, the goal of Project YZ is to support and build an artistic home for AAPI immigrant artists.

Yangtze Repertory Theatre celebrates artists who are global citizens and produce work that evokes conversations across cultures. Since 2017, they have been focusing on supporting artists from the AAPI immigrant community and developing new works that shine a light on stories rarely told. They pride themselves in bringing cultural sensitivity to producing works by, for and about the AAPI community and the Chinese diaspora. Yangtze Repertory Theatre positions themselves at the nexus of ideas from East and West. They strive to foster mutual understanding and bridge the gap between artists and organizations from different backgrounds.

Founded in 1992 by Maryknoll Sister Joanna Chan, Yangtze Repertory Theatre has been a welcoming home for artists whose work is not readily seen in the U.S. and supported them to launch their professional careers in NYC. Yangtze has been responsible for the New York debuts of many artists, most notably Gao Xingjian, the 2000 Nobel Laureate in Literature, who was brought to NY by Yangtze to direct his own play, Between Life and Death, and to present a showing of his ink paintings. To date, these events remain the only full-scale presentations of Gao’s works in the United States. In the fall of 2005, together with Columbia Promotions, Yangtze presented Beijing People’s Art Theater, China’s most historic and prestigious theater company, in its signature masterpiece, The Teahouse, in its New York debut during the company’s first U.S. tour.

For more information on the program, please visit Yangtze Repertory Theatre’s Residencies page. The submissioon period ends on May 31, 11:59pm EST.

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