Producers Emeritus
Narea Kang currently resides in New York as an actor. Select Seattle acting credits include: Matilda James in PFP’s production of The Clockwork Professor, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet at Book-It Repertory Theatre; Buckshot and Lollyville with Macha Monkeys Productions; The Joy Luck Club at Tacoma Little Theatre, and touring in the one-woman show Within the Silence with Living Voices. Narea has also performed with the sketch comedy group, Pork Filled Players, and is an independent film producer.
Maggie Lee is a Seattle playwright whose work reflects her love of comedy, science fiction, and horror. Her produced plays include The Tumbleweed Zephyr and The Clockwork Professor (Pork Filled Productions), The Echo Maiden (Seattle Public Theater Youth Program), The Journey of the Bell (The 14/48 Projects), The Sunshower Bride and Paper and Ink (Live Girls! Theater), Last Light (Playing in Progress), the Revealed! walking tours (SIS Productions), collaborating on Greetings from Styx and King Arthur and the Knights of the Playground (Balagan Theatre), Kindred Spirits (ReAct Theatre), H.P. Lovecraft adaptations (Open Circle Theater), the Double Shot Theatre Festival, and 14/48. Maggie is also the lead sketch writer and a performer with the Pork Filled Players, Seattle’s Asian American sketch comedy group, as well as designing lights, props, and puppets for many local fringe theaters. She was a panelist for Asian American Women in Comedy at the 2011 National Asian American Theater Conference in Los Angeles, and was twice featured at ACT’s Local Writers Showcase at the REPRESENT! Multicultural Playwrights’ Festival. She is a member of the SIS Writers Group, Rain City Projects, the Sandbox Artists Collective, and was recently an Artist in Residence at Theatre Off Jackson.
May Nguyen is a producer with Pork Filled Productions whose upcoming play, “The Tumbleweed Zephyr” opens this August at 12th Ave Arts. May is also an actor who can be found on stage with the likes of sketch comedy group, Pork Filled Players, Live Girls! Theater, 14/48, SIS Productions, and ReAct Theatre. She has even written plays for the SIS Writers’ Group, SIS Productions, Infinity Box Theatre, and Live Girls! Theater. When not on stage, May is a board member with Infinity Box Theatre and can be found behind the scenes as a stage manager and assistant stage manager at Youth Theatre Northwest. Theater is team sport where everyone’s time is precious and everyone’s skills are valuable. Thank you for playing with us.
Maile Wong is a producer, actress, and teaching artist from Seattle. She graduated from Wellesley College with degrees in Theatre Studies and Developmental Psychology. She has taught with Seattle Children’s Theatre’s Young Actor’s Institute, Village Theatre Institute, Seattle Public Theatre, and the Seattle Repertory Theatre. As an actress, she has performed with ArtsWest, Seattle Public Theater, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Sound Theatre Company, SIS Productions, and Pork Filled Productions, among others. She believes passionately in the ability of theatre to cultivate compassion, creativity, and community, and is thrilled to collaborate with and play with Pork Filled Productions as an producer!
Anthea Carns is an actor/stage manager/dramaturg/playwright, who stage managed Unleashed, our staged reading festival of pulp-inspired plays by playwrights of color. Born in Alaska and educated at Carnegie Mellon, Anthea brings a sharp organized mind to PFP. Around town, she was part of the 2015 class of Emerging Arists at Intiman and is a founding member of the HERON Ensemble.
Mara Elissa Palma is an actor, playwright,director, and producer. She comes to Seattle via Boston, Massachusetts, and was born in the Philippines and has lived in California, New Hampshire, and Western Massachusetts. Part of the 2017 class of Emerging Artists at Intiman, she has been working all over the Seattle theatre scene, from Annex Theatre and elsewhere. She has written for SIS Productions’ Represents!, a multi cultural playwrights festival and appeared in SIS’s American Hwangap.