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.