Ma-Yi Theater Company

Ma-Yi Theater Company is a professional, not-for-profit, Obie Award and Drama Desk Award-winning theater company based in New York City that was founded in 1989. Ma-Yi Theater is headed by executive director Jorge Ortoll and artistic director Ralph Peña. Some of its recent notable productions include:

• Lonnie Carter's The Romance of Magno Rubio
• Ralph Pena's Flipzoids
• Qui Nguyen's Soul Samurai and Agent G.
• Michi Barall's Rescue Me: A postmodern classic with snacks
• Michael Lew's Microcrisis, Bike America and Teenage Dick.
• Carla Ching's Sugar House
• Jason Kim, Helen Park, and Max Vernon's KPOP, produced with Ars Nova and Woodshed Collective.
• Lloyd Suh's Children of Vonderly, American Hwangap, co-produced with The Play Company, Jesus in India, and The Chinese Lady.
• Hansol Jung's Among the Dead

In 2006, Ma-Yi Theater Company's production of Warren Leight's No Foreigners Beyond This Point received a Drama Desk nomination for Best Play. In 2010, Ma-Yi Theater received a Special Drama Desk Award for Excellence.

Savage Stage: Plays by Ma-Yi Theater Company is an anthology of selected new works developed and produced by the company since its founding. Edited by Ma-Yi's Literary Manager, Joi Barrios, Savage Stage was published in 2007.

Ma-Yi Theater Company is a participant in "Artography: Arts in a Changing America", a pilot program launched by LINC (Leveraging Investments In Creativity) that seeks to map new arts practices in the United States resulting from demographic shifts.