Desdemona Chiang is a stage director based in San Francisco and Seattle.

Recent directing credits include MilkMilkLemonade, Ching Chong Chinaman, Money & Run Episode 4: Go Straight, No Chaser and Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake) at Impact Theatre; Ching Chong Chinaman (SIS Productions), Hunter Gatherers (Washington Ensemble Theatre); Keith Hitchcock’s Muffin Face (Unicycle Collective & Balagan Theatre); Big Love and Gibraltar (UW School of Drama); The Thugs and Women of Trachis (Cornish College of the Arts). She is Associate Artistic Director of Impact Theatre and Co-Founder/Associate Artist of Azeotrope, a Seattle-based artist consortium.

She has worked on new play development with Playwright’s Foundation, Freehold Theatre, SIS Productions, San Francisco Young Playwright’s Festival, Ross Valley Alternative Works, and the Asian American Theater Company New Works Incubator. Additional credits include Intiman Theatre (Director, Living History), California Shakespeare Theater (Artistic Learning Assistant), Mark Taper Forum (Literary Assistant, New Works Festival), among others. Assistant Directing: ACT Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, and Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

Ms. Chiang is an Associate member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC) and a alumna of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab and Directors Lab West.

BA, Integrative Biology and Theatre, Dance & Performance Studies: University of California at Berkeley.
MFA Directing: University of Washington School of Drama.

Directing Resume (PDF)