“The Resignation”

Katie Ka Vang

Hmong | Woodbury, MN | she/her/hers | Non-Profit

The Resignation is an experimental short movie I created during the pandemic for Red Eye Theater’s THERE IS SOMETHING WE REALLY WANT TO TELL YOU showcase. This piece explores the multidimensions of being in the pandemic and letting go of something that wasn’t meant to be yours and the final release of getting to fully be yourself. Peter Morrow helped to edit this second iteration. 

Katie Ka Vang is a Hmong American playwright and theatre artist. Her work explores the complexities of culture, identity, dis-ease, survivorship, and the familial. Her plays and works include WTF, Hmong Bollywood, 5:1 Meaning of Freedom; 6:2 Use of Sharpening, Fast FWD Motions, In Quarantine, FINAL ROUND and Spirit Trust. Her work has been developed and presented at Pangea World Theater, Pillsbury House Theatre, Theater Mu, Leviathan Lab, Bushwick Starr (Brooklyn), Brown University, The Royal Court Theatre (London), The Walker Art Center, Out North Art House (Anchorage) and more. She’s received support from The Jerome Foundation, Knight Foundation, NPN, MRAC, MSAB, and Coalition of Asian American Leaders. She holds an MFA in Playwriting from Brown University and is a 2020/21 Many Vocies Fellow at the Playwrights Center in Minneapolis.