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, projections designer, and director.  Michi has worked with Asian American & immigrant stories on stage in New York and Boston. Thematic elements in their body of work have been language, grief, Queerness, and community. Their black cat is her son and the center of their universe.

Some of Michi’s Favorite Projects include:
Directing - A RARE BIRD (Breaking the Binary Theatre, Playwrights Horizons)**, wAve (Brooklyn College, The Public Theater)*, I SHOULD BE OBLITERATED (Theatre Row, DUAF), CALICO (Under St Marks), ANCIENT HISTORY (The Tank), 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 - JACK: Tongues, NYU Kimmel Center: Happy Endings for People Like Us, La MaMA Galleria: OriGen Story, TheatreLab: THREE SECOND ANGEL, ICE Factory: HOW I DISAPPEARED, Columbia University: THE TEMPEST, AS YOU LIKE IT, THREE SISTERS.
Projections -  X#*! YOU VERY MUCH, MOM (Leviathan Lab, Second Generation Prod.); THE CEREMONY (Chuang Stage); SILENT SKY (Central Square Theatre); DID YOU EAT?/밥 먹었니? (World Premiere, Chuang Stage, Seoulful Productions); wAve (The Public Theater, Brooklyn College); THE BAKKHAI, RIDE THE CYCLONE, KISS (Queens College); THE MOUNTAINTOP (Mile Square Theatre)
*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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