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Gein Wong
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Black and white photo of Gein Wong. They have long black hair, are of Asian descent, and appear to be in motion.
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Gein Wong (they/them) is an interdisciplinary Director, Writer and Theatre Professor at the City University of New York, whose works focus on cultivating magic and collective agency. They opened Ai Wei Wei’s According to What exhibition with a 500 person performance piece that honored the 2008 Sichuan earthquake victims. At World Pride, Gein commemorated the 45th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots with an immersive live art recreation of Stonewall. In We Dig, they collectively dug a crater size hole in Central London to see what was in Britain’s dirt. As a playwright, Gein play, Hiding Words (for you), delves into a secret language Chinese women created when they were not taught to read or write. Gein is a Curator and Organizer with the Asian American Literature Festival in NYC and works on the ESEA Lit Fest team in London.

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