M.J. Kang is a Canadian playwright and actress. Early life and education Born in Seoul, South Korea, Kang immigrated to Toronto, Ontario with her family at the age of two. She studied with the Playwrights Unit at Toronto's Tarragon Theatre. Career Kang's plays include Questioning Condoms, Noran Bang: The Yellow Room, Blessings and dreams of blonde & blue. She received a Dora Mavor Moore Award nomination for Outstanding New Play, Independent Theatre Division in 1998 for Noran Bang: The Yellow Room. As an actress, Kang had a regular role in the 1997 television series Riverdale, and made guest appearances in E.N.G., Earth: Final Conflict, The City, Doc, Strong Medicine and Medium. On stage, she has performed in productions of Jean Yoon's The Yoko Ono Project, Laurie Fyffe's The Malaysia Hotel and Oren Safdie's Private Jokes, Public Places. She has performed in productions of Private Jokes, Public Places in Toronto, New York City, London, Los Angeles and Berkeley, California. Personal life She is married to Oren Safdie. Filmography Film Television References External links M. J. Kang Asian Heritage in Canada 20th-century Canadian actresses 20th-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights 20th-century Canadian women writers 21st-century Canadian actresses 21st-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights 21st-century Canadian women writers Canadian women dramatists and playwrights Canadian stage actresses Canadian television actresses South Korean emigrants to Canada Living people Canadian writers of Asian descent Actresses from Seoul Actresses from Toronto Writers from Toronto Canadian actresses of Korean descent Year of birth missing (living people)