About Pogi

ERIC “POGI” SUMANGIL has been one of the most often-mispronounced names around the Twin Cities theater community for over 20 years. 

Regional acting credits include: The Realistic Joneses, MacBeth, Baskerville, and Airness (Park Square Theatre), The Romance of Magno Rubio, Falling Flowers, and Romeo & Juliet (Theater Mu). Altar Boyz and West Side Story (Chanhassen Dinner Theatres), The Seven and Salsalandia! (La Jolla Playhouse), Cowboy Versus Samurai (Mo’olelo Performing Arts), Anything Goes (Ordway Center), Pride & Prejudice (Guthrie Theater), The Cradle Will Rock (Frank Theatre), The Monkey King (Children’s Theater), HAiR (Pantages), and Bill of (W)Rights and The Pajama Game (Mixed Blood Theater). 

He is a two-time recipient of the Playwrights' Center's Many Voices Fellowship. His full-length plays include The Duties and Responsibilities of Being a Sidekick and Kicking The Gong Around. His play, The Debutante's Ball, was produced in 2015 by History Theatre and Theater Mu.

In the spring of 2020, he produced UNALIENABLE, a virtual monologue project-in-lockdown to give voice to Asian American experiences in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.

He is a proud member of Actor’s Equity Association, and a co-founder of The Unit Collective, a collective of emerging playwrights of color. He is a recipient of a 2002 Excellence in the Arts award from the Fil-Minnesotan Association, and once got his name on a plaque for eating a 3-pound steak.