Ang(ela) Bey is a multidisciplinary-artist from Southwest Philadelphia. Across discipline, their art imagines liberated futures for Black folx. Ang is founder of Upstream Performance Collaborative and Co-Artistic Director of Shoe Box Theatre Collective.

Affiliations: Ring of Keys, Rising Writers (Azuka Theatre), and PlayPenn Playwrights Cohort; former: Echoes (Primary Stages), Strides Collective Emerging Playwrights, and Jouska PlayWorks. Residencies/awards: HATCH, Rockland Woods, semi-finalist for Shattered Globe’s Global Playwright Series and Live in Color’s June Bingham Playwright Commission. Selected-credits: [design] sandblasted (Theatre Horizon) and A Hit Dog Will Holler (Azuka) [acting] Fabulation (Lantern Theater) and The Light (Theatre Exile); [playwriting] The Medusa Play (SBTC) and MASC. (Philly Women’s Theatre Festival) – commissions: Christ Church Neighborhood House and Museum of the American Revolution; [directing] The Taming! (Shakespeare in Clark Park) and Water By the Spoonful (Eagle Theatre).