Rey Tang is creative beyond her labels
Rey Tang really loves Chicago—so much so that the New Jersey native eschewed the traditional route of moving to New York City in favor of attending Northwestern and decided to stick around.
“Northwestern had the perfect program that let me pursue a bunch of interests,” Tang related via Zoom. Good thing, because the 25-year-old creative wears a whole lot of hats: writer, photographer, stand-up comedian, actress, and filmmaker. Her short film Emergence, about a transgender college freshman struggling to embrace and define her identity, has already screened at the Music Box Theatre. (Full disclosure: this was for my own film fest, the 2024 Film Girl Film Festival.)
