Ralph B. Peña is a playwright, actor, director, and the artistic director of Ma-Yi Theater Company, an award-winning New York-based theater group that develops and produces new Asian-American plays. He is the author of several plays, including Flipzoids, Dead Man's Socks, Project: Balangiga (co-written with Sung Rno), and I__NY. He received an Obie Award for his work on The Romance of Magno Rubio. He served as a Center theater panelist in 2009.