Patrick Wang

Patrick Wang, an American filmmaker and actor, grew up in Sugar Land, Texas, and studied economics, music and theater arts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His debut feature, In the Family (2011), which he wrote, produced and directed and in which he starred, earned a Best First Feature nomination at the Independent Spirit Awards and Best Narrative Feature prizes at several festivals, and Filmmaker Magazine listed him among its 25 New Faces of Independent Film. He followed it with The Grief of Others (2015), adapted from Leah Hager Cohen's novel, and the two-part A Bread Factory (2018), set around a community arts center in a fictional New York town. He has acted in short films and in Headspace (2005), and as a stage director he has staged classical verse drama, the world premiere of a translation of Medea, and musicals including Surviving the Nian, and taught at the Neighborhood Playhouse and the Stella Adler Studio.