current/upcoming:

Esmé is currently the Company Management Fellow at Wicked on Broadway and a freelance playwright/producer/dramaturg, a Playwrights Realm 2025 Fellow, and a member of the 2026 PlayPenn Playwright Entrepreneur Cohort.

Up Next/Recently:

  • Esmé’s play white rabbit; white rabbit’ will receive an industry reading in 2026 as part of the Playwrights Realm INK’D Festival.

Esmé is available for freelance dramaturgy, writing, and producing opportunities. For more information feel free to reach out here.

in the news:

PlayPenn: Tuition-Free Playwrights Cohort Renamed The Playwright Entrepreneur Program, PlayPenn Announces 2026 Cohort

Backstage Pass with Lia Chang: Esmé Maria Ng, Kelly Marie Tran and Sagan Chen on "I know why iris chang died"; Performances-9/4-7

Playbill: Star Wars' Kelly Marie Tran and Sagan Chen to Lead Reading of New Play I Know Why Iris Chang Died

Playbill: Cast Set for 3rd Annual Breaking the Binary Festival

Backstage Pass with Lia Chang: Chatting with FISH MEAT Playwright Esmé Maria Ng: World Premiere Set for Connelly Theater, Aug. 2-3

Broadway World: Live & In Color Announces Esmé Maria Ng As The Recipient Of The 2024 June Bingham New Playwright Commission

American Theatre: A Safe Room for Bold Plays

Broadway World: Esmé Maria Ng and Xiaoyue Zhang To Join The Tank Producers Cohort

Playbill: Songs From New Musical Fouad of Nazareth Will Be Presented at Joe's Pub

American Theatre: Attention Must Be Paid to the Translator in ‘Salesman之死’

Playbill: Indya Moore, Sara Ramírez, Lío Mehiel, More Join Breaking the Binary Theatre Festival Lineup

Broadway World: Premiere Stages At Kean University Announces Semi-Finalists For 2023 Play Festival

Playbill: Theatre Producers of Color Chooses 2023 Cohort

The Wesleyan Connection: Performance Helps New Students Navigate Human Differences, Social Positionality

The Wesleyan Argus: WesCeleb: Esmé Ng ’22 on the Intersection of Activist Theater and American Studies

The Words of Wesleyan: A Shapiro Center Podcast: “I Write in Order to Say”

Howl Round: Breaking New Post-dramatic Ground: Wesleyan University’s The Method Gun (Essay by Jean Tarbox)