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Elephant Memories (1991), Photo by Caroll Rosegg

Artistic Director Emeritus Ping Chong is an internationally acclaimed interdisciplinary artist, and founder of Ping Chong and Company.

Since 1972, he created over 100 original works for the stage in New York City, and around the world. In 1992, Chong created the first Undesirable Elements production in an ongoing series of community-based oral history performances exploring culture and identity.

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Published works include The East West Quartet and a volume on Undesirable Elements. The first comprehensive volume on his body of work, The Interdisciplinary Theatre of Ping Chong: Exploring Curiosity and Otherness on Stage by Yuko Kurahashi, was released in 2019.

Ping Chong is the recipient of two BESSIE awards, two OBIE awards, a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, a Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellowship, and the 2014 National Medal of Arts.

Ping Chong was born in Toronto in 1946 and raised in the Chinatown section