Ping Chong and Company creates works of theater and art that reveal beauty, invention, precision, and a commitment to social justice.

Founded by Ping Chong, Ping Chong and Company is a welcoming home and site of experimentation for multigenerational artists. The company creates original interdisciplinary, community-specific work; and cultivates artistry through training and education programs.


Year One Transition Report, July 2022-June 2023 

is a comprehensive look at the needs, opportunities, and challenges encountered by the company in the advent of the retirement announcements of Founder and Artistic Director Ping Chong and Executive Director Bruce Allardice. In June of 2022, we announced a three-year leadership transition and strategic plan that articulated an innovative approach rooted in exploration, experimentation, and intentional evolution of the company toward a reimagined future. Early conversations indicated that another singular artistic voice would not satisfy the potential artistic growth and need for an expanded artistic vision necessary through this transitional phase after Ping’s retirement. As a result, the voices of multiple interdisciplinary artists, producers, and administrators came together to form a 5-person transition Artistic Leadership Team (ALT) with the goal of developing and imagining an artistic future aligned with our core values and long-range objectives.

In keeping with the plan’s intentions, Year 1 has been characterized by deep learning: adaptations and adjustments to tactical elements of the original plan, reprioritization of plan pillars, and values-driven reimagination of core guiding structures.

Throughout the year, the ALT has spearheaded a more robust process of working together, and is currently actualizing how a shared vision for PCC might emerge. Our hope is that this report will fill critical gaps in knowledge production and inspire dialogue across organizations seeking to learn from our journey, where holding space for multiple perspectives, collective decision making, and relational intelligence can better inform a leadership transition that does not seek to move from one singular leader to another.

Transforming an Artistic Legacy Into Practice: Year One Transition Report 

After a successful, sold-out premiere run this past July, in partnership with Abrons Arts Center, we are excited to announce that Artistic Leader Nile Harris' 

returns in January 2024, as part of the 19th edition of NYC's world famous, cutting edge, 

. This remount is co-produced by Abrons Arts Center and Ping Chong and Company, and presented in partnership with Under the Radar.  

Saturday, January 6 at 7:30pm
Sunday, January 7 at 7:30pm 
Friday, January 12 at 7:30pm
Saturday, January 13 at 7:30pm
Sunday, January 14 at 5pm 

A frenzied rant of online logic delivered outside an inflatable mausoleum, Nile Harris' 

urrounds a bounce castle purchased by Harris' friend, interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker Trevor Bazile (born Miami, FL, 1996-2021). Over the course of the performance, the castle comes to represent an ephemeral monument, a besieged U.S. capital, and a simulacrum of hollow liberal care.

extends from Harris and Bazile’s collaboratively created, live-Google-document-based

’ manifesto (2020), a metaphorical board meeting that asked: will the revolution have 501c3 status? In and around the sound-responsive plastic shrine,

situates this question within the detritus of the past two years—in bitter inheritance, fugitive avatars, political theater, Tucker Carlson redacted texts, and the cleansing of money through arts philanthropy.

Figures—a gingerbread minstrel, Dimes Square vape addicts, a beloved children’s movie cowboy—appear, haunted by the fraught question: what does it mean to be an American? Enlivened by collaborators Crackhead Barney and Malcolm-x Betts, and featuring sonic composition by slowdanger and GENG PTP, 

 uses clowning and live-mixed sound scoring to enact a memorial in an “incellectual” spew of discourse.

this house is not a home returns in January as part of Under the Radar Festival  

Join us this fall for the world premiere of 

Beyond Punishment: Stories of Justice and Healing

, an original interview-based theater performance co-produced by the 

Justice Beyond Punishment Collaborative (JBPC)

 follows the lives of four remarkable individuals who grapple with the intersections and impacts of interpersonal and state violence. The production is performed by the storytellers themselves, and gives insight into their lives, leadership, and healing journeys. Together, their stories encourage us to imagine justice beyond a punitive system that begets further violence.

written and directed by long-time PCC collaborating artist, 

, who was invited by JBPC to bring together a group of organizers with lived experience of incarceration to share their own stories in an interview-based theater production.  The piece was created through interviews and workshops with the cast members. The theatrical format of the presentation is based on and inspired by the 

series of interview-based theater works examining issues of identity, place, and belonging. Each production is made with local partner organizations and local participants telling their own stories on stage.  

Performances are free, and will be presented on

 (215 E 99th Street, New York, NY). Come watch the show, engage in community reflections, and connect with community organizations and movement partners! Tickets are highly limited, so make sure to reserve early.  

This production is one part of the JBPC’s campaign aiming to address the intersections of state and interpersonal violence, and strengthen ideas and approaches to safety and justice that do not rely on punishment, domination, and supremacy. The JBPC is working to support movements in offering compelling and cohesive stories and messaging to end violence, with the goal of realizing a world with justice beyond punishment. 

Beyond Punishment: Stories of Justice & Healing premieres on November 30

We are excited to announce the premiere of Artistic Leadership Team member Nile Harris' 

, a co-presentation and co-commission with 

. Performances will take place on July 14 - 16 at 8pm at Abrons Art Center Playhouse, located at 466 Grand Street, New York, NY 


A frenzied rant of online logic delivered outside an inflatable mausoleum,

surrounds a bounce castle purchased by Harris' friend, interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker Trevor Bazile (born Miami, FL, 1996-2021). Over the course of the performance, the castle comes to represent an ephemeral monument, a besieged U.S. capital, and a simulacrum of hollow liberal care.



extends from Harris and Bazile’s collaboratively created, live-Google-document-based ‘

 situates this question within the detritus of the past two years—in bitter inheritance, fugitive avatars, political theater, Tucker Carlson redacted texts, and the cleansing of money through arts philanthropy.


Figures—a gingerbread minstrel, Dimes Square vape addicts, a beloved children’s movie cowboy—appear, haunted by the fraught question: what does it mean to be an American? Enlivened by collaborators Crackhead Barney and Malcolm-x Betts, and featuring sonic composition by slowdanger and GENG PTP, 

uses clowning and live-mixed sound scoring to enact a memorial in an “Incellectual” spew of discourse.

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