http://www.gunghoprojects.com/new-cover-page-1 daily 0.75 2026-04-02 http://www.gunghoprojects.com/about daily 0.75 2026-04-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55df3011e4b03ca7ff4dc191/1494212026128-VERYF7AM1BOZ9BIKUKZW/GungHo-hr.png About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55df3011e4b03ca7ff4dc191/1494732575324-IBOC1Z69JXFDAJFNO89W/image-asset.jpeg About - Michael Leibenluft 李邁 (Founder/Artistic Director) Michael Leibenluft is an Obie Award winning director and educator. Fluent in Mandarin, Michael has directed numerous theater projects in Chinese or bilingually in Mandarin and English, including The Subtle Body by Megan Campisi at 59E59 and the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center, North Bank Suzhou Creek by William Sun at the Shanghai International Arts Festival, Salesman之死 at the LaGuardia Performing Arts Center and 14th Street Y, and Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive, which has been touring China since 2015 with Drum Tower West Theater. Michael is currently based in NYC, where his directing credits include I’ll Never Love Again (a chamber piece) by Clare Barron at the Bushwick Starr (Obie Award for Direction, 2016; NYT and Time Out Critics’ Picks), Cancer Cancer Cancer by Alexander Paris at Ars Nova AntFest, The Whore from Ohio by Hanoch Levin with New Yiddish Rep, How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel with Drum Tower West Theater in Beijing, Lost Tribe by Alex Borinsky as part of Target Margin’s Yiddish Theater Lab, and other projects with New York Theater Workshop, LMCC, The Civilians, EST, and NYU/Tisch. He is an alum of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, as well as a former Fulbright Fellow, SDCF Kurt Weill Fellow, and Drama League Fall Directing Fellow. Michael graduated from Yale as a double major in Theater Studies and East Asian Studies and completed his Masters in Performance Studies at the Shanghai Theatre Academy. http://www.gunghoprojects.com/welcome daily 0.75 2018-11-29 http://www.gunghoprojects.com/contact daily 0.75 2026-04-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55df3011e4b03ca7ff4dc191/1441203717702-MIL6F1JMUIV63SEMYXN5/IMG_1942.JPG Contact / 联系 http://www.gunghoprojects.com/floodinthevalley daily 0.75 2018-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55df3011e4b03ca7ff4dc191/1541103186472-8LA70QVWDFLMSL06U99V/IMG_4985.JPG Flood in the Valley / 当爱 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55df3011e4b03ca7ff4dc191/1539918725088-2JN0QCKRII55OV05IDIB/IMG_5012+%281%29.JPG Flood in the Valley / 当爱 Left to right: Afu Shuoguo and Hairi Wuzhi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55df3011e4b03ca7ff4dc191/1539918756132-C32ZTO2K6S6FBSLLY6BN/ORG_DSC03115.JPG Flood in the Valley / 当爱 Left to right: Reggie D. White, Hairi Wuzhi, Karma Mayet Johnson, Stephen Stocking, Erin Pettigrew, Dimu Weiwei, and Afu Shuoguo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55df3011e4b03ca7ff4dc191/1539918762160-WV9JNX1PE3V82J770QPE/PS0B4048.jpg Flood in the Valley / 当爱 Left to right: Erin Pettigrew, Zhu Tiantian, and Karma Mayet Johnson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55df3011e4b03ca7ff4dc191/1494179034366-PJXWY4WVQHP0TPBYH8W5/Leibenluft+small+headshot.jpg Flood in the Valley / 当爱 - Michael Leibenluft (Director) Michael is an Obie Award winning director originally from Chevy Chase, Maryland. Michael's directing credits include I’ll Never Love Again (a chamber piece) by Clare Barron at the Bushwick Starr (Obie Award for Direction, 2016; NYT and Time Out Critics’ Picks), Cancer Cancer Cancer by Alexander Paris at Ars Nova AntFest, The Whore from Ohio by Hanoch Levin with New Yiddish Rep, How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel with Drum Tower West Theater in Beijing, Lost Tribe by Alex Borinsky as part of Target Margin’s Yiddish Theater Lab, The Subtle Body by Megan Campisi at 59E59 Theaters and the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center, and other projects with New York Theater Workshop, LMCC, The Civilians, EST, and NYU/Tisch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55df3011e4b03ca7ff4dc191/1494179276240-S5QV97RS6R8XRO3H4CM3/IMG_7452.JPG Flood in the Valley / 当爱 - Li Ting (Playwright) Li Ting is a first level national playwright, and director of the Chinese Dramatist’s Association. She is a recipient of a specially awarded state allowance for accomplished artists and academics. Her international collaborations include We Once Let It Go with the West Yorkshire Playhouse in England and The Bridge Over the Three Gorges at the U.K.’s Briton Theater Festival. In 2014 she collaborated with a British choreographer to bring the original piece I Breathe to Avignon Theater Festival. Her major works in China include Future Unity, which earned the country’s highest prize for dramatic writing, The 29th Tree (winner of a national cultural prize), the opera Red Yi (winner of the Chinese National Opera Festival), Don’t Forget Abuluoha, Journey in the Autumn Leaves, The Farmer, Soul of Streams, and the musicals Burning Snow and Grass House. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55df3011e4b03ca7ff4dc191/1494181343347-IHPHE6HJPOLYUGWSOGH1/image-asset.jpeg Flood in the Valley / 当爱 - Liu Dangqing (Composer) Dangqing is a composer and music producer. He is the Executive Director of Yousheng Music Production company. He has produced albums for notable musicians including Jiang Yang Zhuo Ma, Sun Lu, Tan Weiwei, Liao Chang Yong, among many others. He composed music for Yi Red, a large-scale Chinese folk musical in 2015. He served as Music Director for The 2016 13th Annual Sports Competition Opening Ceremony, Chengdu. In 2017 Liu received China Art Fund to produce music for the musical Silk Road Love Song. Liu sang in China Have Courage, Sichuan Get Stronger!, which commemorates the courage of those lost in the Wenchuan Earthquake. The song has been listened to by 10 million people. He is the CEO of Taoge China, a platform that promotes musicians through song production, copyright trading, artist brokerage, and event planning. Liu also serves as Vice President and Secretary of Sichuan Province Folk Music Association. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55df3011e4b03ca7ff4dc191/1539920183832-EGF5YP010JFLMPIZEQ4C/image-asset.jpeg Flood in the Valley / 当爱 - Yilong Liu (Playwright) Yilong is a New York-based playwright, born and raised in Chongqing, China. His work has been produced or developed at SPACE on Ryder Farm, CAATA/Victory Gardens Theatre, New Ohio Theatre, The Flea Theatre, Urban Stages, East West Players, Queens Theatre, WildWind Performance Lab, FringeNYC, Kumu Kahua Theatre, Union Theatre (London), and others. Awards include an EST/Sloan Project New Play Commission (Curb), Kennedy Center’s Paul Stephen Lim Playwriting Award (The Book of Mountains and Seas), Paula Vogel Playwriting Award (June is The First Fall), National Partners of the American Theatre Award for Playwriting (Joker), Po’okela Award for Best New Play (Joker), and an Asian Pacific American Friends of the Theatre Playwrights Scholarship. Currently, he’s a resident playwright in the inaugural SERIALS Writers Room at The Flea Theatre. Yilong received a BA in Chinese Language and Literature from Beijing Normal University and an MFA in Playwriting from University of Hawai’i. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55df3011e4b03ca7ff4dc191/1532408024947-Q6XD38LR72RPXCB7W0LF/DSC_9989+copy+%281%29.jpg Flood in the Valley / 当爱 - Korde Arrington Tuttle (Playwright) Korde is a playwright from Charlotte, NC. His work has been developed and seen at the Ojai Playwrights Conference, Roundabout Underground, 59E59, New York Stage and Film, the Obie Award-winning The Fire This Time Festival, The 24-Hour Plays: Nationals, the Obie Award-winning Harlem 9’s 48 Hours… in Harlem at The National Black Theatre, HomeBase Theatre Collective, and The Movement Theater Company. Korde is a recipient of the Steinberg Playwriting Fellowship, NYSAF’s 2018 Founders’ Award, 2018 Falco/Steinman Commission Award at Playwrights Horizons, 2018 Playwrights Initiative Fellowship at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and was selected as a finalist for both the 2017 Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Contest and City Theatre National Award for Short Playwriting Contest. Korde is a current playwright-in-residence at Lincoln Center Theater, a Resident Artist at Ars Nova, and is a Middle Voice Theatre Company member at Rattlestick Playwright’s Theater. His debut collection of haiku and photography, falling is the one thing i, was published by Candor Arts, in May 2018. Korde received his MFA in Playwriting at The New School. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55df3011e4b03ca7ff4dc191/1532408391454-YM2B460RIE13C411PY3E/Aaron+Whitby+%26+Martha+Redbone_songwriting+dynamic+duo_2016_300dpi+%281%29.jpeg Flood in the Valley / 当爱 - Martha Redbone and Aaron Whitby (Composers) Martha and Aaron perform with a “band of NYC’s finest blues and jazz musicians” (Larry Blumenthal-Wall Street Journal). From humble beginnings in downtown NYC, to concerts across Native American communities for their Billboard Magazine acclaimed CD “Home of the Brave” the team has built a passionate and loyal fan base. Their album “Skintalk” is included in the Library Collection at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in Washington D.C. Commissioned by Joe’s Pub and the Public Theater in NY, the team’s newest work is Daughter of the Hills, a musical theater piece inspired by the lives of Redbone’s family in the coalmining hills of Appalachia. In 2017 the team have also completed commissions “Bone Hill: The Concert” for NY Voices/Joe’s Pub/Public Theater, "Plurality of Privacy" project for the New York Theater Workshop, and are contributing composers for "Primer for a Failed Superpower" directed by Rachel Chavkin. Redbone/Whitby are award recipients of the prestigious New England Foundation for the Arts Grant, National Performers Network Fund, Lincoln Center for the Arts and MAP Fund. Redbone is a 2015/16 Fellow of the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55df3011e4b03ca7ff4dc191/1539920330722-CFOUX3B4A7FRJYKYC0GS/1450758_10151815918327695_1128884107_n+%282%29+%281%29.jpg Flood in the Valley / 当爱 - Jane Jung (Project Manager) Jane Jung is a Manager and Producer for individual artists, artist-led companies, and theater projects, currently working with Director Kaneza Schaal, Ping Chong + Company, Writer / Performer Diana Oh, and Gung Ho Projects. From 2014 - 2017, she was Managing Director of The Civilians where she oversaw all administrative, fundraising, general management, and producing areas of the company. Previously, she was General Manager at Ping Chong + Company from 2010 - 2014. She has worked as a producer with Little Lord and the Women's Project, and produced new work that was presented at the New Ohio Theater’s Ice Factory Festival, The Public Theater's Under the Radar Festival, City Center Stage II, and the Bushwick Starr. She is a board member of Network of Ensemble Theaters and is on the Editorial Board of the Yale Theater Management Knowledge Base. http://www.gunghoprojects.com/salesman daily 0.75 2024-08-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55df3011e4b03ca7ff4dc191/1692887383581-QWXECK7075RGUFEAUG4N/Salesman-Square.gif Salesman之死 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55df3011e4b03ca7ff4dc191/21e29f8b-85f1-4e0d-b1fa-077424689b78/YZRep_Salesman%E4%B9%8B%E6%AD%BB_lowres.jpg Salesman之死 - Make it stand out Photo by Maria Baranova-Suzuki https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55df3011e4b03ca7ff4dc191/e29f4a6e-a3b9-41ef-b5a1-e6659fdb3d65/jeremy-tiang.jpg Salesman之死 - Jeremy Tiang 程异 Jeremy Tiang 程异 (he/they) is a playwright, novelist, and translator from Chinese. His work for the stage includes A Dream of Red Pavilions, The Last Days of Limehouse and Salesman之死, as well as translations of plays by Chen Si'an, Wei Yu-Chia and Quah Sy Ren. He has also translated over thirty books, including novels by Lo Yi-Chin, Yeng Pway Ngon, Yan Ge, Zhang Yueran and Shuang Xuetao, as well as Zou Jingzhi’s Ninth Building, which was longlisted for the International Booker Prize. His novel State of Emergency won the Singapore Literature Prize in 2018. Originally from Singapore, he now lives in Flushing, Queens. www.JeremyTiang.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55df3011e4b03ca7ff4dc191/a30b308e-c773-4a50-91e7-5250b68d0023/Michael-Leibenluft.jpg Salesman之死 - Michael Leibenluft 李迈 Michael (he/him) is a bilingual, Obie Award-winning theater and film director and educator. For Gung Ho Projects: Flood in the Valley, a bilingual folk musical set in Liangshan, Sichuan and Appalachia and a festival of Taiwanese queer plays in translation. For Yangtze Rep: June is the First Fall by Yilong Liu. Other projects include: I’ll Never Love Again (a chamber piece) by Clare Barron at the Bushwick Starr, The Whore from Ohio by Hanoch Levin with New Yiddish Rep, The Subtle Body by Megan Campisi at 59E59 and the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center, North Bank Suzhou Creek by William Sun at the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum, How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel with Drum Tower West Theater in Beijing, and the docuseries “How to Have Sex in a Pandemic.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55df3011e4b03ca7ff4dc191/059b774a-b893-4429-9c6d-3fd8dcc7830a/sandia-ang-square.jpg Salesman之死 - Sandia Ang 翁春晓 Sandia, a native of China, received her Master’s Degree in Voice Performance from the Manhattan School of Music. She has appeared as Lady Thiang in The King and I at different theaters including the Paper Mill Playhouse, and the Taj Mahal, in Atlantic City. Ms. Ang has performed as Eva in The Floating Box at The New York Asia Society; and as The Doctor in Angels’ Voices at the Kennedy Center. She takes special pride in presenting Chinese Music to western audiences. Musicfromchina.org has featured Sandia as a soloist in their concerts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55df3011e4b03ca7ff4dc191/8bf3b0e4-6640-40f6-bec9-8d2c75d1777b/kim-brown-square.jpg Salesman之死 - Sonnie Brown Sonnie is excited to be working with Yangtze Repertory Theatre in Salesman之死. She was last seen in the Civilians project The Unbelieving, in the Ma-Yi production of Once Upon A (korean) Time, and Ensemble Studio Theatre's production of what you are now, for which she was nominated for a Drama Desk award. She can be seen in the popular Netflix show, “Partner Track,” among many other TV shows, like “Law and Order,” where she plays a judge from time to time and films. Hopefully the strike will be over soon and more TV and film projects will be in the works. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55df3011e4b03ca7ff4dc191/1811edf7-e509-42da-9819-361b30ab4f1a/claire-hsu-square.jpg Salesman之死 - Claire Hsu 許佳倩 Claire (She/Her) is thrilled to be working with some of her favorite people on Salesman之死. Made in Taiwan, Claire is a two-time award-winning trilingual actress, who has performed in French, English and Mandarin. Favorite theater credits: The Hard Problem (regional: Quantum Theater), world premiere of Persuasion (Bedlam), The Doormen (NYC Fringe), and world premiere of LeDécalage (Taiwan). Favorite screen credits include Amazon Original movie “You Were Never Really Here” with Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix, and Universal Pictures’ “Boogie.” She lives happily ever after in Queens with her daughter, husband, and two felines. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55df3011e4b03ca7ff4dc191/7e15c1bd-fad0-42ca-8129-2fe1e02abd58/julia-gu-square.jpg Salesman之死 - Julia Gu 谷曦 Theater: 7 Minutes (Waterwell), Day 364: The Scaled Boy (Yangtze Rep. Theatre), I Know You (Abbey Theatre of Ireland), BAb(oo)shka (St.Ann’s Warehouse), Chinese Opera and Modern Drama (Lenfest Center), Medusa Volution (Happylucky No.1), Salome (Irondale Theater), Salesman之死 (Laguardia Performing Arts Center), Speaking As Then (Columbia Schapiro Theater). Film: Undercurrent (short), Illness (short). Juliaguxi.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55df3011e4b03ca7ff4dc191/f632aec3-73e9-40bc-860d-c507024e98fb/lydia-li-square.jpg Salesman之死 - Lydia Jialu Li 黎珈璐 Lydia (they/them) is an actor and performing artist, exported from Beijing Sanlitun. A Chinese, English, Japanese and Emoji user. A chaos of radio calisthenics, yoga, Suzuki, Viewpoints, Mime, Grotowski, Butoh and Kendo. Trained in Beijing, Shanghai, Fukuoka, Moscow, Berlin, NYC, LA, and Ashfield. Previously played at Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Double Edge Theatre, JACK, Los Angeles Performance Practice, REDCAT, Center For New Performance, Park Avenue Armory, Outfest LA, AAIFF, MNFF, SDAFF, Urbanworld, Cairo International Film Festival, etc. Was a resident artist at Mabou Mines, and a fellow artist at todo dar productions. BA in Sociology, Fordham University LC; MFA in Acting, CalArts. www.lilydia.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55df3011e4b03ca7ff4dc191/ba5172eb-9817-44fb-b241-46d02b191d5d/jo-mei-square.jpg Salesman之死 - Jo Mei 梅园 Jo Mei’s New York theater credits include, Lunch Bunch (PlayCo. & Clubbed Thumb), Anatomy of a Suicide (Atlantic), Babette’s Feast (Theatre at St. Clement’s), World of Extreme Happiness (Manhattan Theatre Club), You For Me For You (Ma-Yi). Regionally she has worked at Berkeley Rep, Pittsburgh City Theatre, Portland Stage, A.R.T., The Goodman, Woolly Mammoth and others. TV credits include “Crashing” (HBO), “Nicki” (Freeform), “Bones” (Fox), and “The Good Wife” (CBS). Jo stars in and co-wrote the award-winning film “A Picture of You”; other film credits include “A Bread Factory, Part One”, “Who We Are Now”, “Adult World”, “The Grief of Others”. Member: The Actors Center. 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