Ran Xia is a Shanghai-born, Brooklyn-based playwright, director, and sound artist. Resident Director at the Tank (Inaugural Artist of the Year award, 2019). Recent directing credits include the cinematic theatrical hybrid production of Prometheus Bound (Howard Rubenstein), In Blue (written and directed), world premiere of Independent Study by Ben Gassman, US premiere of The Tallest Man in the World by Ailis Ni Riain, etc. Beyond the Tank, her works have been seen in physical and virtual spaces around NYC and beyond, including Dixon Place, IRT, HERE arts center, The Brick, The Wild Project, and more. She was also a directorial collaborator on Risa Puno’s The Privilege of Escape with Creative Time. A frequent collaborator of Exquisite Corpse Co. (audio/visual installation Echo at the Memory House, on Governors Island; co-wrote The Enchanted Realm of Rene Magritte; sound designer for the NYC Critic's Pick production of Zoetrope). Alumna of Pipeline Theater's Playlab 2019/2020 (Chava the Giant and the Oldest Bird) and IRT Theater's 3B Residency. Artistic Resident at Access Theater. Assistant Directing credits include: The Invention of Tragedy (Mac Wellman, Dir. Meghan Finn at the Flea); The Great Leap (Lauren Yee, Dir. Taibi Magar at the Atlantic), and Refrigerated Dreams (Carrie Mae Weems, Nona Hendryx, Francesca Harper, and Niegel Smith at Joe's Pub). She's a commissioned writer at Vanderbilt University (To Stab a Butterfly In the Heart, Fall 2021), and will be guest directing Orlando (by Sarah Ruhl, after Virginia Woolf) at Barnard College (Fall 2021). Recipient of the 2021/22 Beatrice Terry Directing Residency at the Drama League. ranxia.info