For EST/Youngblood, Ralph directed Michael Lew’s Microcrisis prior to its Off-Broadway premiere at Ma-Yi Theater Company. Other directing credits include Savage Acts by Kia Corthron, Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas, Han Ong, and Sung Rno, Lloyd Suh’s Children of Vonderly (Ma-Yi); Nicky Paraiso’s House/Boy (LaMama ETC, Singapore and Dublin Theater Festivals), Will Sing! For Philadelphia Shakespeare, and Lloyd Suh’s Happy End of the World (Children’s Theater Company and Ma-Yi at Arena Stage).
He is the author of several plays, including Flipzoids, Dead Man’s Socks, Project:Balangiga (co-written with Sung Rno), additional text for The Romance of Magno Rubio (Obie Award), and I__NY.
Ralph is the recipient of two residencies to the Bellagio Study Center in Italy, and was a lead organizer of the first U.S. Artists delegation to the World Social Forum in Nairobi, Kenya.
He is a founding member, and the current artistic director of Ma-Yi Theater Company.