ABOUT

Nancy Ma is an actor, writer, and director from Chinatown New York. 

She is a 2025-2028 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow. Her work has been supported by, The National Arts Club, Asian American Arts Alliance, The New Harmony Project, NYFA Women's Fund, Fresh Ground Pepper NYC, Brooklyn Arts Council, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, The Museum of Chinese in America, Woodward Residency.

Nancy is a storytelling facilitator for The Moth and a writing mentor for Young Storytellers. She loves frisbee and is obsessed with Grace Lee and Jimmy Boggs.

Centers women, immigrants, and working class communities. Highlights color and play in spaces of the every day gray. Earnest, hopeful, honest.

有一天，你不在  One Day You are Not Here

short documentary - 11 min - 2023 USA

A daughter attempts to confront her immigrant dad about the ways he's failed as a father. In the process, she sees his pain and her fears for the first time. 有一天，你不在 is meditation on seeing the familiar with new eyes.