Diana Khong

Known for

Directing

Diana Khong is queer Viet theatermaker and filmmaker. They are also a mutual aid and popular education organizer with roots in Worcester, Massachusetts, currently based on Brooklyn, NY. They consider their art and their community work to be spiritually intertwined. As a playwright, their work wrestles with the material and the divine. Their play MARY MAGDALENE, DAUGHTER, BOATPERSON will be produced as a staged reading as part of Chuang Stage and Fresh Ink Theatre’s 25/26 Season in May 2026. A community reading tour of the work was produced at community centers throughout Boston including the Boston Liberation Center, Panethnic Pourovers, etc. MARY MAG has been developed in residency with Fresk Ink Theater & Chuang Stage and Holy Cross x The Worcester Cultural Coalition, on-site at the Prior Performing Arts Center in 2025. As an educator, they facilitate WYSH, a devised theatre project with the Hanover Theatre Conservatory working with Worcester young people to transcribe their lived experiences and apply it to dialectical, liberatory imagingings of what the world can be. Their most proud moment was directing their students’ anti-patriarchal work “From the Moment a Girl is Born.” They’ve also directed multiple plays with the Asian American Theater Project and premiering the official debut of the queer rewrite for HEATHERS: THE MUSICAL, crafted in collaboration with composer Lawrence O’Keefe and playwright Kevin Murphy, for Ram’s Head Theatrical Society. They are also one-half of the queer directorial team behind Last Weekend Productions—with their dear friend and collaborator Linda Denson. Their co-directed short A POEM CALLED LOVE JONES has screened at festivals across four continents. Their next film, BAND PRACTICE (recipient of the Panavision New Filmmakers Grant), is a queer coming-of-age romantic comedy following a Black majorette and Viet band geek set to be premiere in 2026. Film, theater and organizing are all acts of communion. Diana often considers what a community is: how it breathes, how it betrays itself, how it shifts into something better, stranger, worse. A 2025 Lambda Literary Emerging LGBTQ Voices fellow, 2024 Director’s Lab North labbie, and 2022 fellow at the Institute for Diversity in the Arts, Diana’s work often depicts queer women’s desire and troublemaking amidst an increasingly strange and inhospitable world.