Charles Pang
Charles Pang is a Meisner-trained actor who starred in The 25th Filial Exemplar, a short film by Leon Cheo featured at multiple film festivals internationally. Most recently, he performed the roles of Tuck "Ralph" Ling in the presentation of Michael John LaChiusa's new musical American Eclipse, the Immortal Teacher in The Monkey King: A Kung Fu Musical (Queens Theatre, New York), and as one of the storytellers in Passage: A Walk of Chinatown Stories, a walking theatre street performance by the Museum of Chinese in America.
In addition to his musical theatre training at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA), he completed the 2-year Meisner Technique acting program at the Maggie Flanigan Studio under the tutelage of Charlie Sandlan in 2022. He has also studied with the Tony Award-nominated director Marcia Milgrom Dodge and Perdekamp Emotional Method instructors Sarah Victoria and Kristina Heuer.
Charles made his professional debut in Pornography for the People (HERE Arts Center, New York), written by Ming Peiffer and directed by Kat Yen in 2013. He later starred in the musical Romance of the Western Chamber (TADA! Theater, New York), and followed the national tour of A Christmas Story: The Musical for five years, playing the featured role of Waiter. He received praise for his work in Sans Me at The Tank (Click here for the Theaterscene.org review.).
Born and raised in Hong Kong, Charles speaks Cantonese, English, and Mandarin and holds a business degree from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. After thirteen years in the United States, he returned to Hong Kong to pursue a new career path in speech therapy, aiming to leverage his experience in family support and the performing arts to provide quality assessment and intervention services for low-income populations.