Lauren Yee

Lauren Yee's plays include Ching Chong Chinaman, Highrise, Caution, Over the Asian Airwaves, and Zachary Zwillinger Eats People.

She has been a finalist for the Jerome Fellowship, a MacDowell residency, and the Humana Festival's Heideman Award. Other recent awards include PlayGround's June Anne Baker Prize and Emerging Playwright Award, Mu Performing Arts' Emerging Playwrights of Color Fellowship, Kumu Kahua Theatre's Pacific Rim Prize, a Theatre Bay Area CA$H grant, and a Yale Playwrights Festival award.

Her full-length play Ching Chong Chinaman was showcased at the 2007 New York International Fringe Festival. It will receive a workshop production at Berkeley's Impact Theatre this fall and its professional world premiere at Mu Performing Arts in 2009.

Nationally, her plays have been produced/developed in New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, Boston, Minneapolis, and other cities. In the San Francisco Bay Area, Lauren's work has been seen at Asian American Theater Company, Berkeley Rep School of Theatre, Bindlestiff Studio, City Lights Theatre Company, Impact Theatre, PlayGround, and Three Wise Monkeys. Meriwether Publishing, Brooklyn Publishers, and Smith & Kraus have published her writing.

Theatre Bay Area Magazine named her an "up-and-coming playwright" in 2008 and an artist to "Keep an Eye On" in 2006. Lauren represented the Bay Area as a presenting playwright at the 2nd National Asian American Theater Conference.

She is a recent graduate of Yale University, where she studied dramatic writing with Amy Bloom, Toni Dorfman, Tina Landau, Deb Margolin, and Donald Margulies. She has also served as the founding executive director of the San Francisco Young Playwrights Festival (2005-present) and Youth for Asian Theater (2001-2005). Lauren is a member of the PlayGround writers pool.

This summer and fall, she will be a writer-in-residence at the Byrdcliffe Artist Colony, the Edward F. Albee Foundation, and the New York Mills Arts Center. She is currently working on a commission for PlayGround.

She can also be pretty much bribed with ice cream any time for anything. She is currently based in San Francisco.

To learn more:
nytheatre.com
offoffonline.com
San Francisco Chronicle
Yale Daily News

She is also very sorry there is not an actual website up at this point, but promises there will be something more interesting than this in the future. Or at least something of equal quality.

updated July 15, 2008