Staff

Carla Ching (Artistic Director)
Gladys Chen (President)
Lloyd Suh (Executive Producer)
Lisa Chan (Company Manager)
Grace Lee (Development Manager)
Dora Kwong (Marketing Manager)
Margaret Chen (Finance Director)
Grace C. Lee (Resident Producer)
Welly Yang (Founder/Honorary Artist)
Peter Chin (Production Manager)
Jeff Chew (Webmaster)
Michael Golamco (Webmaster)

Board of Directors

Welly Yang (Chairman)
Chad Tanaka (Treasurer)
Gladys Chen
Aaron Frankel

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.

Carla Ching (Artistic Director) Originally a poet from the City of Angels, Carla Ching moved to NYC to be an English teacher. She stumbled upon pan-Asian performance collective Peeling at the Asian American Writers Workshop and wrote and performed with them from 1998-2001, using autobiography as a departure point for performance. Her work with Peeling appeared at Second Stage Theater, The Asian American Writers Workshop, The Puffin Room, NYU, Rutgers, Cornell, Columbia University and St. Mark’s Theater.

Her full-length plays include TBA (2g/Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center), Dirty (finalist for the 2006 Cherry Lane Theatre’s Mentor Project and the 2008 Ignition Festival at Victory Gardens), Found Objects, The Ripple Effect, Big Blind/Little Blind and The Sugar House at the Edge of the Wilderness. Short plays include “Next Big Thing” (Vampire Cowboys), “The Further Adventures of Little Goth Girl” (2g/Public Theater), “Multicultural Education” (commissioned by Ma-Yi Theater Company/Ohio Theater), and “Dissipating Heat” (finalist for the 2005 Heideman Award from Actors Theatre of Louisville) and “Closing Up Shop” (Desipina and Company/Center Stage).

In 2007, she traveled with a group of artists from Ma-Yi Theatre Company, The Hip Hop Theater Festival and The Foundry to the World Social Forum in Nairobi, Kenya to learn about artistic and social action best practices from all over the world. She is a member of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab and The Women’s Project Lab 2008-2010. Carla is the recipient of a 2008 Urban Artists Initiative fellowship, a 2009-2010 Teachers and Writers Collaborative Fellowship and a nominee for the 2009 Wasserstein Prize. She attended Envision, Voice and Vision’s developmental retreat at Bard College in June 2009. BA, Vassar College. MFA, Actors Studio Drama School. As a teaching artist, she has worked with The New Victory Theater, Lincoln Center Institute, TDF, The Public Theater, Young Playwrights, The Women’s Project and American Place Theatre. She also teaches playwriting in the Performing Arts Department at Pace University. She lives and works in New York City.