Meiyin Wang is a curator and producer of live performance, recognized field wide for her bold
curatorial sensibilities and strategic leadership. She is the Director of Contemporary Programs
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Most recently she served as the Director of
Programming and Producing at the Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC), located on the
World Trade Center campus in New York. There she played a pivotal role in the center’s launch:
commissioning, development, and presentation of multidisciplinary art, shaping the Center’s
inaugural season with over 30 new works and hundreds of performances, while building civic
and global partnerships and philanthropic support.

Prior to her role at the PAC, she served as Director of the La Jolla Playhouse’s Without Walls
Festival and as the Andrew W. Mellon Creative Fellow at the Meany Center at the University of
Washington. As an independent producer, her artistic collaborations have appeared across four
continents at venues including Holland Festival, N.Y.U Abu Dhabi, and Singapore International
Festival of the Arts.

Meiyin started her career at The Public Theater, eventually serving as Co-Director of the Under
the Radar Festival (UTR) and the Director of the Devised Theater Initiative. During her time at
UTR, she presented hundreds of artists and companies from over 35 countries and the festival
helped launch careers of artists on an international scale. As a curator and consultant, she has
worked with Park Avenue Armory, Sundance Institute, Arts Emerson, Stanford Live, and others.
Raised in Singapore, Meiyin has spent her career bridging cultures through performance. She
holds an M.F.A in Theater Directing from Columbia University and is currently on the advisory
board for the Trust for Mutual Understanding.

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