Lauren Yee
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Lauren Yee | |
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Occupation | Playwright |
Education | Yale University (BA) University of California, San Diego (MFA) |
Spouse | Zachery Zwillinger |
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Lauren Yee (Chinese: 余秀菊[1][2]) is an American playwright.
Early life and education
Yee was born and raised in San Francisco, California. She graduated from Lowell High School in 2003.[3]
Yee graduated from Yale University in 2007, majoring in English and Theatre Arts. She then attended University of California, San Diego's MFA playwriting program.[4]
Career
Yee is a member of the Ma-Yi Writers’ Lab[5] , a Playwrights’ Center Core Writer, And has worked under commission from the Goodman Theatre, Lincoln Center, and Mixed Blood.[6]
Personal life
Yee met an attorney named Zachary Zwillinger at Yale. The couple later married at San Francisco in September 2012.[7]
Plays
- Ching Chong Chinaman (Berkeley Impact Theatre)
- Crevice (Impact Theatre)
- The Tiger Among Us (January - February 2013, Mu Performing Arts (Minneapolis) [8]
- The Hatmakers Wife (developed at PlayPenn New Play Conference in 2011; August 27, 2013 - September 21, 2013, Off-Broadway The Playwrights Realm)[9]
- Samsara (February 2015 - March 8, Chicago)[10]
- in a word (April 2015, San Francisco Playhouse)[11]
- Hookman (May 2015, Encore Theatre Company, San Francisco)[12]
- King of the Yees (2015, The Goodman Theatre's New Stages Festival)[13]
- The Great Leap (2018, Off-Broadway)[14]
- Cambodian Rock Band (2018, South Coast Repertory)[15]
- The Song of Summer (2019, Trinity Repertory Company)[16]
- Young Americans (2023, Portland Center Stage/Pittsburgh Public Theater)[17][18]
Awards and honors
The awards/honors are in reverse chronological order.
2019
- Doris Duke Performing Artist Award[19]
- Steinberg Playwright Award, with a cash award of $50,000.[20]
- Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award for Cambodian Rock Band, which includes a $25,000 prize.[21]
- Whiting Award in Drama[22]
- Signature Theatre Company (New York City) Residency 5 program. The program "guarantees playwrights three premieres over five years."[23]
2018
- Horton Foote Prize for Outstanding New American Play for Cambodian Rock Band.[24]
- Susan Smith Blackburn Prize finalist for The Great Leap[25]
- Princeton University MacKall Gwinn Hodder Fellows for the 2018–2019 academic year.[26]
2017
- Joseph Kesselring Prize for The Great Leap.[3]
2016
- Will Glickman Playwright Award winner (for in a word)[27]
- Ashland New Play Festival – Women's Invitational winner (for King of the Yees)[28]
- Francesca Primus Prize from the American Theatre Critics Association[29]
2015
- The Kilroys List Top 50 (for King of the Yees and The Tiger Among Us)
- Susan Smith Blackburn nominee (for in a word)
- The Chance Theatre playwright-in-residence[30]
- Theatre Bay Area Award nominee – Outstanding World Premiere Play (for Hookman)
2014
- Lark Playwrights’ Week playwright (for The Tiger Among Us)
- Constance Saltonstall Foundation residency Berkeley Rep Ground Floor finalist (for King of the Yees)
- Leah Ryan Prize for Emerging Women Playwrights runner-up (for The Tiger Among Us)
2013
- O’Neill Conference playwright (for Samsara)[31]
- Sundance Theatre Lab finalist (for in a word) Playwrights’ Center Core Writer (2013-2016)
- Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation grant (with the Goodman Theatre, for King of the Yees)
- Playwrights Realm Page One resident playwright
- Second Stage Theatre – Shank playwright-in-residence
- UCross Foundation residency
- L. Arnold Weissberger Award nominee (for Samsara)
- Gerbode Foundation Playwright Commissioning Award (with Encore Theatre Company)
2012
- Susan Smith Blackburn Prize nominee (for Samsara)
- Bay Area Playwrights Festival winner (for Samsara)
- Ma-Yi Writers Lab playwright (2012–present) PEN USA Literary Award for Drama finalist (for A Man, his Wife, and his Hat)
- Time Warner fellow at the Women's Project Playwrights Lab
- Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle nominee (for Crevice)
- Kitchen Dog Theatre's New Works Festival winner (for A Man, his Wife, and his Hat)
- East West Players’ Face of the Future Playwriting Competition third place (for Samsara)
- Aurora Theatre Global Age Project finalist (for in a word)
2011
- PlayPenn Conference playwright (for A Man, his Wife, and his Hat)
- KCACTF's Paul Stephen Lim Playwriting Award winner (for in a word)
- KCACTF's Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award winner (for in a word)
- IICAS Student Research Travel Grant recipient (for Mu Performing Arts commission)
2010
- MAP Fund grantee (with Mu Performing Arts)
- Hangar Theater Lab Company playwright-in-residence (for in a word)
- Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Paula Vogel Award in Playwriting (for Ching Chong Chinaman)[32]
- El Gouna Writers’ Residency fellow
2009
- MacDowell Colony fellow
- Public Theater Emerging Writers Group member
- Theatre Bay Area New Works Fund commission (with AlterTheater)
- Wasserstein Prize finalist PONY Fellowship finalist
- Jerome Fellowship finalist (selected)
- American Antiquarian Society – Robert and Charlotte Baron fellow
- Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers fellow
- 2008 Princess Grace Award finalist (for Ching Chong Chinaman)
- Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation grantee Dramatists Guild fellow New York Mills Arts Retreat writer-in-residence
- Edward F. Albee Foundation fellow PlayGround June Anne Baker Prize winner/commission (for Crevice)
2007
- Kumu Kahua Theatre Pacific Rim Prize winner (for Ching Chong Chinaman)[33]
References
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- ^ Ren, Richard (May 4, 2019). ""2019年度全美十大华人杰出青年"榜单公布". All America Chinese Youth Federation (in Simplified Chinese). Archived from the original on April 15, 2022. Retrieved April 15, 2022.
- ^ a b Xie, Jocelyn. "Lowell Alumna, First Chinese-American playwright to win Kesselring Prize". The Lowell. Archived from the original on 2020-09-19. Retrieved 2019-10-30.
- ^ Chen, Teresa. "Lauren Yee: Making the Invisible Visible" Archived 2019-03-27 at the Wayback Machine yaledailynews.com, December 11, 2015
- ^ "Lauren Yee Biography" Archived 2018-01-30 at the Wayback Machine ma-yitheatre.org, retrieved January 30, 2018
- ^ Lauren Yee Archived 2016-05-23 at the Wayback Machine AO International, retrieved May 09, 2016
- ^ "Lauren Yee, Zachary Zwillinger" Archived 2018-01-30 at the Wayback Machine The New York Times, September 23, 2012
- ^ Papatola, Dominic P. "Theater review: ‘The Tiger Among Us’ is a sturdy creature" Archived 2018-01-31 at the Wayback Machine twincities.com, January 27, 2013
- ^ Brantley, Ben (2013-09-06). "A Cabinet of Curiosities". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-05-23.
- ^ Jones, Chris. "Review: 'Samsara' at Victory Gardens Biograph Theatre" Archived 2018-01-30 at the Wayback Machine Chicago Tribune, February 15, 2015
- ^ Hurwitt, Robert. "Lauren Yee finds the drama 'In a Word’" Archived 2018-01-30 at the Wayback Machine sfgate.com, April 7, 2015
- ^ Hurwitt, Robert. "Lauren Yee’s slasher satire is razor-sharp" Archived 2018-01-31 at the Wayback Machine sfgate.com, May 11, 2015
- ^ Malitz, Nancy. "At Goodman’s New Stages Festival, playwrights count on sharpening assist from the audience" Archived 2018-01-31 at the Wayback Machine chicagoontheaisle.com, November 12, 2015
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- ^ Gray, Margaret. "Joy, heartbreak and psychedelic surf rock power a fierce, funny 'Cambodian Rock Band'" Archived 2019-12-05 at the Wayback Machine Los Angeles Times, March 16, 2018
- ^ The Song of Summer Archived 2019-03-28 at the Wayback Machine broadwayworld.com, retrieved March 27, 2019
- ^ "Young Americans". Portland Center Stage. Archived from the original on November 17, 2022. Retrieved November 16, 2022.
- ^ "Young Americans". Pittsburgh Public Theater. Archived from the original on November 17, 2022. Retrieved November 16, 2022.
- ^ "Playwright Lauren Yee has won over $400,000 in literary prizes in 2019". Star Tribune. Archived from the original on 2019-10-29. Retrieved 2019-10-30.
- ^ Clement, Olivia. "Jackie Sibblies Drury and Lauren Yee Are Winners of Steinberg Playwright Awards" Archived 2019-12-12 at the Wayback Machine Playbill, October 9, 2019
- ^ "Lauren Yee Wins Steinberg ATCA Award for Cambodian Rock Band" Archived 2020-01-24 at the Wayback Machine americantheatrecritics.org, April 6, 2019
- ^ Clement, Olivia. "Michael R. Jackson and Lauren Yee Named 2019 Whiting Award Winners" Archived 2020-12-04 at the Wayback Machine playbill, March 26, 2019
- ^ Clement, Olivia. "Signature Theatre Welcomes 5 New Residents" Archived 2020-10-30 at the Wayback Machine playbill, March 28, 2019
- ^ Libbey, Peter (2018-09-04). "Lauren Yee and Jaclyn Backhaus Win Horton Foote Prize for Plays". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 2019-11-01. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
- ^ Clement, Olivia. "Aleshea Harris’ 'Is God Is', Lauren Yee’s 'The Great Leap', and More Named Finalists for Susan Smith Blackburn Prize" Archived 2018-01-30 at the Wayback Machine Playbill, January 29, 2018
- ^ "Fellowships are awarded to Martyna Majok, Mario Moore, Okwui Okpokwasili, Jacob Shores-Argüello, and Lauren Yee" Archived 2018-03-15 at the Wayback Machine princeton.edu, December 14, 2017
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- ^ "Lauren Yee Wins $10000 Francesca Primus Prize for 2016" Archived 2018-01-31 at the Wayback Machine americantheatrecritics.org, March 15, 2017
- ^ "Meet Lauren Yee, our 2015 resident playwright" Archived 2018-01-31 at the Wayback Machine chancetheater.com, February 25, 2015
- ^ "2013 National Playwrights Conference" Archived 2016-05-12 at the Wayback Machine theoneill.org, retrieved January 30, 2018
- ^ "The Paula Vogel Award in Playwriting" Archived 2019-06-10 at the Wayback Machine kennedy-center.org, retrieved January 30, 2018
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