Starr Jiang is a director, writer and multidisciplinary artist from the Bay Area. Her work is a living exploration of unsung diasporas and queer liberations.

Starr served as the Executive Producer of Asian American Theater Project, an Asian American activist theater company founded by David Henry Hwang in 1978. Past productions Starr has directed and designed for include Guards at the Taj, by Rajiv Joseph, The Wolves, by Sarah DeLappe, and Vietgone, by Qui Nguyen.

Starr has also worked closely with JUST ART, an artist/activist collective based in Palo Alto. With the group, she has co-produced Lighten Up, a comedy festival centered around colorism, and CENTRIFUGE, a three-part theater experience brings together stories of displaced individuals from Vietnam, Central America, and Palestine and Syria.

Outside of theater, Starr is interested in the intersections of design, technology, and mental health. She currently is a designer at COMPASS Pathways, where she is creating technology that supports patients with treatment-resistant depression. 

An avid believer in the power of education and mentorship, Starr uses her art practice to engage in the transformative healing and justice of her communities. She is a teaching artist at TheatreWorks, where she engages in the dialogue of theater with students in the South Bay.