Company

Pink Fang creates art at the intersection of performance, community building and social change, rooted in the ethos and artistic legacy of Ping Chong.

We are artists and builders, creating bold new works of performance. We are a home for daring experimentation, expanding the boundaries of theater and nurturing creative communities of care. We are generative, collaborative, and our co-creation process digs deeply into community-specific histories and narratives.

Through innovative generative performance experiences, deeply crafted learning and making processes, with students, elders, and community members, and through archival activations, we are committed to searching for those shared moments that reverberate and the questions that build bonds. When did you feel invited in, or less alone? Where is home? How does love manifest? Where did you find your power?

PINK FANG harnesses memory to grow connections within a community. Our co-creation process is equal parts personal, sociological, political, and cultural—digging with intention into community-specific histories and narratives. Originally founded as the Fiji Theater Company by groundbreaking artist Ping Chong, later known as Ping Chong and Company, and now Pink Fang, the company has produced over 120 shows since 1975, representing perspectives from storytelling partners from 85 countries and touching the lives of half of a million audience members on five continents.

Under our new Leadership Team, our community of artists continues to grow. Our Undesirable Elements series expands in form and approach while illuminating many more perspectives and unique histories; our education programs for storytellers both young and old spreads creative fire from classroom to stage. PINK FANG is a harbor and home for innovative artists—all proud inheritors and successors of Ping Chong’s legacy. Constantly developing fresh, brave expressions of our shared humanity, we are excited to reveal the next untold story.

WHY PINK FANG?

As of July 2025, Ping Chong and Company became PINK FANG. After 50 years of leadership, Founder Ping Chong asked, upon his retirement in 2022, that the company be renamed as a sightline into the future—signifying our ongoing dedication to nurturing and amplifying the voices of new artists. After a three-year transition period helmed by an Interim Artistic Leadership Team that included Nile Harris, Talvin Wilks, Mei Ann Teo, Jane Jung and Sara Zatz, it is with a spirit of sharing and mutual generosity that we have evolved from an eponymous model to that of co-leadership. This new approach—built through reflection, artistic visioning, and structural redesign—will be stewarded by Jane Jung, Sara Zatz, and Mei Ann Teo.

Naming is foundational to the company’s practice. Our Undesirable Elements productions explore identity through collaborative storytelling with artists sharing their lived experiences. The shows always begin with our collaborators proudly claiming and owning their names and then speaking through to their self-realized truths. The company has chosen to call ourselves PINK FANG—inspired by a joke that originated with a piece of mail that arrived many years ago with an unintentional mangling of Ping’s name. The name represents our commitment to reclaiming a distortion.