Leilani Chan is Founding Artistic Director of TeAda Productions (teada.org): a nomadic theater of color based in Los Angeles. Chan served as Co-Chair of the National Asian American Theater Conference and Festival held in Hawai’i in 2024 and was one of the founding Board Members of the Consortium of Asian American Theaters and Artists (caata.net). Her latest work, Nothing Micro About Micronesia, (NMAM) premiered at the Honolulu Theatre for Youth and has toured inter-island to Hilo and Maui, and the ninternationally to Guam and Saipan. NMAM is set to follow in the path of Masters of the Currents, (MOC) which also toured to the continent including San Francisco’s Mission District (Brava Center for the Arts), Minneapolis (Pangea World Theater), Salt Lake City (Utah Presents), Los Angeles (USC’s Visions and Voices); and internationally to Guam (Breaking Wave Theatre/University of Guam). Both plays received NEFA’s National Theater Project and MAPFUND and is Chan’s 4th NPN Creation Fund. Chan has taught at both University of Hawai’i at Manoa and CSULB Theatre Departments. Born & raised in Hawai’i, Leilani currently resides in Los Angeles. Leilani attended Hampshire College and obtained her M.F.A. from U.C. Irvine. Chan also Directed Red Summer for Carpetbag Theatre in Knoxville, TN.