Musical Theater

Kit Yan

Kit Yan (Playwright/Poet/Lyricist/Performer) is a Yellow American New York based artist, born in Enping, China, and raised in the Kingdom of Hawaii.

Their work has been produced by the American Repertory Theater, the Smithsonian, Musical Theater Factory, the New York Musical Festival, and Dixon Place. They have been a resident at the Civilians, Mitten Lab, 5th Avenue Theater, the Village Theater, a WP/Public theater translab fellow, and are a 2018-19 Dramatists Guild Fellow. Their musical INTERSTATE, written with collaborator Melissa Li, won best lyrics at the 2018 New York Musical Festival and their show QUEER HEARTACHE has won 5 awards at the Chicago and SF Fringes.

“My work is a dreamspace where queer and transgender folx can time travel in order to witness, remember, and heal our herstories. I hold writing as a spaceship into the borderless ancestral past, the puzzle pieces of an imagined queertureverse, and a lifeline back onto this earth. Here, we can ground, explore, and discover stories on our own terms—messy, ugly, and wholly beautiful. My dreams lead me to write about the fractures in my life and in this world, times I fucked up, times I was held accountable by my family and communities, and times of collective struggle on a path towards collective liberation. Above all else, I write about queer love smashing racism, patriarchy, and systemic oppressions.”

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