Katie Ka Vang is a Hmong American playwright and screenwriter. Her work explores the complexity of culture & community; living in the diaspora; dis-ease and transformation. Her plays include AGAIN the musical, Fertile Grounds, WTF, Hmong Bollywood, 5:1 Meaning of Freedom; 6:2 Use of Sharpening, Fast FWD Motions, In Quarantine, FINAL ROUND, and Spirit Trust. Her work has been developed and presented at The Jungle Theater, East West Players, Mixed Blood Theater, Pangea World Theater, Pillsbury House Theatre, Theater Mu, Leviathan Lab, Bushwick Starr, Brown University, The Royal Court Theatre, The Walker Art Center, Civic Ensemble, Out North Art House, and more. She recently was awarded The Joyce Fellowship with Theater Mu, and is in residence at The Jungle Theater as a member of the Emerging Leader Cohort and will have a premiere of Fast FWD Motions in 2025. She was a semi finalist for the Joan D. Firestone Award and is developing a new play with En Garde Arts. She was also a 23/24 Constellation Fellow from the Center for Cultural Power. She was on the shortlist for the 2025 Creative Capital Award. She received the 22/23 McKnight and 19/20 Many Voices Playwriting fellowships at the Playwrights' Center.  She’s received support from Jerome Foundation, NET, Knight Foundation, NPN, MRAC, MSAB, and Coalition of Asian American Leaders. She was a member of East West Players 21-23 Playwright's Group. She holds an MFA in Playwriting from Brown University.