Lauren Yee
Lauren Yee’s plays include CHING CHONG CHINAMAN (Pan Asian, Mu Performing Arts, SIS Productions, Impact Theatre), CREVICE (Impact), THE HATMAKER’S WIFE (Playwrights Realm, The Hub, Moxie Theatre, AlterTheater, PlayPenn), HOOKMAN (Encore Theatre, Company One), IN A WORD (SF Playhouse, Cleveland Public Theatre, Strawdog, The Hub), KING OF THE YEES (Goodman Theatre – New Stages), SAMSARA (Victory Gardens, Chance Theatre, O’Neill Conference, Bay Area Playwrights Festival), and THE TIGER AMONG US (MAP Fund, Mu).
Her work has also been developed at Lincoln Center/LCT3, The Public Theatre, Second Stage, Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, Center Stage, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Kitchen Dog, the Magic Theatre, and others. Former Dramatists Guild fellow, MacDowell Colony fellow, Public Theater Emerging Writers Group member, Women’s Project Lab playwright, Second Stage Shank playwright-in-residence, and Playwrights Realm Page One resident playwright.
Her play SAMSARA has been a nominee for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and the L. Arnold Weissberger Award. Her play THE HATMAKER’S WIFE was an Outer Critics Circle nominee for the John Gassner Award for best play by a new American playwright.
She is currently a member of the Ma-Yi Writers’ Lab and a Playwrights’ Center Core Writer. Lauren is also under commission from the Denver Center, Lincoln Center/LCT3, Mixed Blood, New World Symphony, Portland Center Stage, South Coast Rep, and Trinity Rep. BA: Yale. MFA: UCSD.
UPCOMING WORKS
in a word
NNPN rolling world premiere
Directed by Jess McLeod
Strawdog Theatre Company (Chicago)
February 5-March 19, 2016
in a word
Directed by Michael Bernard
Elements Theatre Collective (Santa Barbara, CA)
Spring 2016
in a word
Directed by Matt Bassett
The Hub Theatre (Fairfax, VA)
April 1-24, 2016
Stereo | Blind
a commissioned play with music
Curated by Michael Tilson Thomas
Music by Amy Beth Kirsten
Directed by Mary Birnbaum
New World Symphony (Miami Beach, FL)
April 30, 2016
CREDITS
King of the Yees
as part of the New Stages Festival
Directed by Joshua Kahan Brody
Goodman Theatre (Chicago)
November 1-15, 2015
King of the Yees
as part of the Construction Zone Reading Series
Directed by Desdemona Chiang
ACT Theatre (Seattle)
August 25, 2015
Samsara
West Coast premiere
Directed by Benjamin Haber Kamine
The Chance Theatre (Anaheim)
April 30-June 7, 2015 – EXTENDED
Hookman
World premiere
Directed by Becca Wolff
Encore Theatre Company (San Francisco)
May 6-30, 2015
in a word
NNPN rolling world premiere
Directed by Beth Wood
Cleveland Public Theatre (Cleveland)
April 16-May 2, 2015
in a word
National New Play Network rolling world premiere
Directed by Giovanna Sardelli
San Francisco Playhouse (San Francisco)
April 2-25, 2015
Samsara
World premiere
Directed by Seth Bockley
Victory Gardens Theatre (Chicago)
February 6-March 8, 2015
The Tiger Among Us
Directed by Lavina Jadhwani
Timeline Theatre Company (Chicago)
February 17, 2015
King of the Yees
as part of the Play Labs Series
Directed by Gavin Witt
Center Stage (Baltimore)
Nov 21-23, 2014
King of the Yees
closed workshop
as part of Next Edition Festival
Directed by Kent Nicholson
Playwrights Realm (New York City)
Nov 11-15, 2014
in a word
as part of PLAY/ground
Directed by Casey Stangl
The Theatre at Boston Court (Pasadena, CA)
Nov 8, 2014
The Tiger Among Us
as part of the Lark Playwrights’ Week
Directed by Shelley Butler
Lark Play Development Center (New York City)
September 24, 2014
The Hatmaker’s Wife
Directed by Rachel Chavkin
Playwrights Realm (New York City)
August 27-September 21, 2013
Samsara
as part of the National Playwrights Conference
Directed by Seth Bockley
The O’Neill Conference (Waterford, CT)
July 5-6, 2013