Artist-in-Residence Henry Ong is an internationally produced playwright. His plays include Sweet Karma, Fabric, Rachel Ray, Legend of the White Snake, People Like Me, and Madame Mao’s Memories.

Ong has conducted many oral history workshops in various communities (Pinoy Stories, Chinese American Stories, Korean American Stories, Thai American Stories and Sikh American Stories, among others). He is one of three Playwrights’ Arena honorees for this year’s Lee Melville award for outstanding contribution to theater in Los Angeles.