Diana Khong is queer Viet playwright, filmmaker, and poet. They are also an archivist, popular education organizer, and harm reductionist in Worcester, Massachusetts where their work attempts to heighten the contradictions surrounding class- and gender-based oppression among their community. They consider their art and their community work to be spiritually intertwined.

Currently, they are one-half of the queer directorial team behind Last Weekend Productions—with their dear friend and collaborator Linda Denson. Their co-directed short A POEM CALLED LOVE JONES has screened at the Queer Women of Color Film Festival, Melbourne Queer Film Festival, Afrikana Film Festival, MIX Brasil, and more across four continents. Their next film, BAND PRACTICE, is a queer coming-of-age romantic comedy following a Black majorette and Viet band geek set to be released in late 2025.

As a theatre director, their work includes multiple plays with the Asian American Theater Project and premiering the official debut of the queer rewrite for HEATHERS: THE MUSICAL, crafted in collaboration with composer Lawrence O’Keefe and playwright Kevin Murphy, for Ram’s Head Theatrical Society. Their first full-length play MARY MAGDALENE, DAUGHTER, BOATPERSON was produced by Stanford University’s Asian American Theater Project as their 2022 Spring Mainstage. They are currently rewriting this work for Fresk Ink Theater and Chuang Stage’s Ink-ubation Residency.

Film, theater and organizing are all acts of communion. Diana often considers what a community is: how it breathes, how it betrays itself, how it shifts into something better, stranger, worse. A former fellow at Director’s Lab North and the Institute for Diversity in the Arts, Diana’s work often depicts queer desire and troublemaking amidst an increasingly strange and inhospitable world.