White Tiger
“Remember. That’s how most revolutions start. With love.”
Written by Nina Ki
Directed by Galia Backal
Staged Reading Presentation:
Wednesday, June 10, 2026 – 7:00 PM
Tickets
General Admission - $10
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Location
IATI Theater - Mainstage
64 E 4th Street
NYC, NY 10003
ADA/Wheelchair Accessible
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About
White Tiger follows Khloe, a Korean American high school student and aspiring artist, and her immigrant mother, Young-Mi. While Khloe dreams of attending art school, her mother insists she remain close to home and work in the family laundromat. As Khloe begins to experience vivid dreams of Gil, a genderqueer Korean immigrant living through the Mexican Revolution, past and present begin to intertwine. Across time, both mother-child relationships fracture under pressure, revealing tensions around identity, belonging, and autonomy. These parallel conflicts set off a chain of events that reverberate across generations.
Language: English
Genre: Magical Realism
Playwright
Nina Ki | United States
Nina Ki (xe/she/they) is a Queerean (Queer + Korean) American playwright based in Brooklyn. Xe earned a BFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and xer plays have been developed and presented nationwide with organizations including Clubbed Thumb, Ma-Yi Theater Company, MCC Theater, and The Public Theater. Xer play Moon Bear received special consideration for the Relentless Award, and Ravage was a finalist for The Playwrights Realm Fellowship. Xe has participated in multiple prestigious writing groups and residencies, including The Public Theater’s Emerging Writers Group and The Orchard Project.
Artistic Team
Galia Backal, Director
(she/her/ella) First-generation Mexican-American director, choreographer, and collaborator currently serving as Associate Director of SIX the Musical North America. Selected credits include Leviticus at Ensemble Studio Theatre; Ride the Cyclone at Queens College; El Cóndor Mágico workshop at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company; El Huracán at Brooklyn College; and Into the Woods at Prima Theatre. Additional work includes MODS, English Made Simple, Ms. Placed, Blue Moon, The Creature, The Precious Effect, Does the Title Matter?, and Macbeth at Circle in the Square Theatre School; The Sound of Music and West Side Story at Bay View Music Festival; El Corrido de California through the Roundabout Theatre Company Refocus Project; The Archive at Pace University; and EVERYBODY at LIU Post.
Zoë Kim
as Khloe
Maria Peyramaure
as Rosa
Jully Lee
as Young-Mi
Raine Higa
as Gil / Gil-Nam / Bokee
Chris Yejin
as Dal-Rae