Michi Zaya


Welcome to my website! Feel free to explore my homepage to see some of my work and check out my resume.





About me:

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. Her primary interests are in experimentally bold and heartwrenchingly vulnerable presentations of art.

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), PRIMARY COLORS (Pulp Stage), 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. Acting Credits- TheatreLab: THREE SECOND ANGEL, ICE Factory: HOW I DISAPPEARED, Columbia University: THE TEMPEST, AS YOU LIKE IT, THREE SISTERS, Yale Summer Cabaret: 2V1, Matchbox Theatre Company: BAO-ZI, The New School: r/sarahsmithisdead, KENTUCKY. Design Collaborations- The Public Theater, Chuang Stage, Brooklyn College, The New School, NYU Tisch Drama, Hunter College, Urban Bush Women*, Anamolous Co., bb brecht/Under the Radar (The Public), On The Hook, New Yorkers for Culture &  Arts, Bushwick Starr. 
*Associate or **Assisted role

Michi enjoys rewatching the same handful of TV Shows, fact-checking inflammatory articles, holding their cat and kissing him, and any celebration of Queer BIPOC artists.

Website: michizaya.com

Contact: im.michizaya@gmail.com

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