We are so excited to announce the
2025/2026 TMT Institute Fellows:
Lanxing Fu
Ryan Gamblin
Emma Ladji
Christina Roussos
reid tang
The TMT Institute is a gathering of a small cohort of artists who seek to radically disrupt and re-examine their practice. It is a place where artists can challenge and question themselves, try new directions in any way at all, without any expectation of result or success.
The Institute intentionally rejects product-oriented work; Fellows pursue no project, no developmental stage, no result of any kind. Our goal is to create a place where artists set aside their assumptions and disrupt their established practice. Artists try new ways of working, new disciplines to explore, and new aesthetic goals and principles. We value directionless exploration; we consider misfires, dead ends, and bad ideas to be a fruitful and joyous part of our work.
Stay tuned for Open Studios coming June 2026.
25/26 INSTITUTE FELLOWS
Lanxing Fu
Lanxing Fu (she/her) is a Chinese-American multidisciplinary theater artist. She is a writer, performer, producer, and educator, as well as Co-Director of HERE Arts Center. Previously she was Co-Director of Superhero Clubhouse, an interdisciplinary collective creating theater for climate justice. Her artistic work has been seen in various venues throughout New York City and internationally. She been an educator at Skidmore College and Pace University, and a speaker and workshop facilitator with various organizations throughout the country, including Theatre Communications Group, The New School, Virginia Tech, Columbia University, Berklee College, and more.
Ryan Gamblin
Ryan Gamblin (they/them) is a sound designer, composer, and performance-maker based in Brooklyn, NY. Their practice centers found media, original composition, and the use of systems as instruments. Recent designs include: Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire (Vineyard / The Civilians), BOWL EP (Vineyard / National Black Theatre), Weathering (Faye Driscoll / New York Live Arts), The March (Big Dance Theater / PACNY), The Following Evening (600 Highwaymen / PACNY), Criminal Queerness Festival 2024 (National Queer Theater / PACNY), Cold Water (Little Engine Theater), Metamorphosis 2 (Stacy Grossfield / The Chocolate Factory).
Emma Ladji
Emma Ladji (she/her) is an actress and theater artist who makes experimental music and writes and performs live works of art. She has performed leading roles for Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Goodman Theater and Writers Theater and has devised new work with Wender Collective, Theater Y and Red Tape Theater in Chicago. Emma composed the sound for the French-American theater company Blue in the Right Way’s production of Women Beware Women. Through artist residencies at Villa Lena and Ragdale Foundation Emma is developing an audio immersive performance about gardens.
Christina Roussos
Christina Roussos (she/her) is a director, producer, and educator focused on new work across live performance, film, audio, and interactive storytelling. She teaches at SVA’s MFA Visual Narrative program and has directed at universities including UCLA, University of Rochester, and Brooklyn College. Her personal work explores identity through mythological adaptation. christinaroussos.com
reid tang
reid tang (they/he) writes plays and things shaped like plays. Their work includes Isabel (NAATCO), DEBT (co-written w/ Adrian Einspanier), WORK HARD HAVE FUN MAKE HISTORY (Clubbed Thumb Summerworks), FUTURE WIFE (Relentless Award Honorable Mention, Goethe-Institut Beijing, Theatertreffen Stückemarkt), and Party in a Google Sheet (New Georges). Currently, they’re a resident playwright at New Dramatists, and have been part of Ars Nova’s Play Group, the New Georges Jam, Clubbed Thumb’s Early Career Writers’ Group, and NYTW’s 2050 Fellowship. They grew up in Singapore and presently live in Brooklyn, NY. reidtang.com
Past Institute Fellows: Avi Amon, Tom Bane, Sarah Bellin, Eliza Bent, Kaaron Briscoe, Ana Cantorán, Stephen Cedars, Tanisha Christie, Sarah Dahnke, Mashuq Mushtaq Deen, Nelson T. Eusebio III, Ben Gassman, CB Goodman, Morgan Gould, Noelle Ghoussaini, Alyssa Haddad-Chin, Ayun Halliday, Carl Holder, Adam M. Kassim, Irina Kruzhilina, Brian Lawlor, Cate McCrea, Gulshan Mia, Aaron Minerbrook, Claire Moodey, Kyoung Park, Marie Lloyd Paspe, Yoni Oppenheim, Sierra Ortega, Maleek Rae, Gabrielle Revlock, Barbara Samuels, Cara Scarmack, Jennifer Seastone, Marisol Rosa-Shapiro, Normandy Sherwood, Sylvain Souklaye, Sarah Cameron Sunde, Ari Tabei, Sugar Vendil, Peter Mills Weiss, Sarah K. Williams, Anthony Wills Jr., Brandon Woolf, and Dennis Yueh-Yeh Li, Faith Zamblé