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Name: Jeff Tang
City/Place: Brooklyn, NY
Country: United States

Life & Work

Bio: Jeff Tang is a composer and creative producer whose practice is rooted in a deep delight in the cross-pollination of artistic disciplines, a dedication to the redirection of the cultural narrative, and an ambition to re-center historically underrepresented voices and values in the arts.

As a composer, his music theater work has been seen in New York, London, Minneapolis, and Chicago. Commissions include NYC's Leviathan Lab, the NYU Write/Act Festival, Music Institute of Chicago, Theatre Latte Da in Minneapolis, St. Ann's School in Brooklyn. He’s scored podcasts for Reese Witherspoon’s production company, Hello Sunshine, and Rainn Wilson’s SoulPancake, as well as for People’s Action Network. Jeff has been a Summer Labs Artist in Residence at National Sawdust, a Composition Fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and an alumnus of the New Dramatists Composer-Librettist Studio, Prospect Theater Company's Musical Theater Lab, and the PlayLabs Festival at the Playwrights Center.

As creative producer, credits include as Executive Creative Producer for Iphigenia, a new opera, currently in development, by jazz icons Wayne Shorter and Esperanza Spalding, with set designs by the architect Frank Gehry; and as lead producer for composer Mason Bates’s genre-bending KC Jukebox series at the Kennedy Center. For virtual audiences, he produced Sound Heals, the official launch event for the Sound Health Network; The Heart of the Song for The Dallas Opera, featuring the music and stories of a trio of star tenors from Mexico; and with Lumahai Productions, he produced the pilot episode for Active Hope, a virtual event and podcast series created with The Apollo Theater, The Kennedy Center, and National Sawdust.

As the Associate Producer for the NationalSawdust+: performance and conversation series in Brooklyn, he’s worked with poets, scientists, filmmakers, musicians, mixologists, and jugglers, and his previous role at the Metropolitan Opera saw him on the producing team for the award-winning international Live in HD and radio broadcasts, and as a catalyst for public programming, audience engagement, and social impact.

He serves on the Equity Committee of the newly-formed Creative & Independent Producer Alliance (CIPA), and is a proud member of Peoplmovr, a creative studio specializing in involvement that centers anti-racism and equity in its commitment to collective liberation.

Predictably, he lives in Brooklyn, NY.