Staff

Gladys Chen (President)
Lloyd Suh (Artistic Director)
Arlene Yang (Development Director)
Grace C. Lee (Resident Producer)
Welly Yang (Founder/Honorary Artist)
Peter Chin (Production Manager)
Jeff Chew (Webmaster)
Michael Golamco (Webmaster)
Fred Bimbler, Esq., and Bob Seigel, Esq. (Legal counsel)

Board of Directors

Welly Yang (Chairman)
Chad Tanaka (Treasurer)
Aaron Frankel
June Jee
Irwin Liu

STAFF BIOGRAPHIES

Gladys Chen (President) has been working with 2g since its inception in 1997. From 1997 to 2001, she was the Managing Director of Second Generation and produced its first Off-Broadway musical Making Tracks. During this time, she helped to create the In the Works series. While attending graduate school, she produced several full-length musicals in the New York City/Philadelphia area. Gladys holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business and an MPH from Johns Hopkins University. Gladys held numerous positions in advertising and marketing, including at Johnson & Johnson.

Lloyd Suh (Artistic Director) is the author of American Hwangap (NYSCA Individual Artists Grant/Lark BareBones production; Ojai Playwrights Conference; McCarter Theatre Center IN-Festival; NYS&F), The Children of Vonderly (NYFA Playwriting Fellowship, Ma-Yi Theater Co.), The Garden Variety (South Coast Repertory commission) and Masha No Home (first produced at Ensemble Studio Theatre with 2g and Youngblood; West Coast premiere at East West Players), along with several shorter plays, including Not All Korean Girls Can Fly (EST Marathon) and With A Hammer & A Nail (EST/Thicker Than Water). Additional productions include performances at the Bowery Poetry Club and The Battle Ranch (Vampire Cowboys), the New York International Fringe Festival (with Youngblood at the Present Company Theatorium), Expanded Arts, Crobar (Partial Comfort Productions, Battle of the Bards winner for Ma-Yi Theatre Co.), West End Theatre (Prospect Theatre Co.), Access Theatre, TBG Theatre (Personal Space Theatrics), and the Itzak Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall (2g Concert of Excellence).

As an actor, he has appeared onstage at various NY theatres, and in principal roles in the feature films Year of the Fish (dir. David Kaplan, with Randall ‘Duk’ Kim and Ken Leung), and Dark Matter (dir. Chen Shi-Zheng, with Meryl Streep, Liu Ye, Aidan Quinn, Bill Irwin and Blair Brown), both of which premiered as official selections at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. He has directed plays in production and development at Ensemble Studio Theatre, the Culture Project, HERE Arts Center and others, including TEN at the Public Theater, which he conceived, produced and directed, and the world premiere of Michael Golamco’s Cowboy v. Samurai at the Rattlestick Theatre (NAATCO). He has overseen the development of several dozen new plays, most notably as Producer of 2g’s In The Works reading series and as Co-Director of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab, the largest resident company of professional Asian American playwrights ever assembled.

He has represented 2g on the National Steering Committee in creating the first National Asian American Theatre Conference in Los Angeles and the first National Asian American Theatre Festival in New York; he also served as an official artist delegate to the 2007 World Social Forum in Nairobi, Kenya and the US Social Forum in Atlanta. In 2006, he received the Lilah Kan Red Socks Award from the National Asian American Theatre Company in recognition of an artist’s commitment to community service. A graduate of Indiana University and The New School for Social Research, he is a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre and The Actors Studio.