Yilong Liu

Yilong Liu is a recent graduate of The Juilliard School’s Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program. His play The Book of Mountains and Seas  received the Lambda Literary Award for Drama, and was produced by Alchemation at the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where it earned Second Place in the BBC Popcorn Writing Award. His play Good Enemy had its premiere off-Broadway at Minetta Lane Theatre as part of Audible Theater’s 22/23 season. Yilong is an artist-in-residence at Sala Beckett in Barcelona with PlayCo, where his play We Borrowed Brokenness was translated and performed in Catalan in the summer of 2024. Yilong grew up in China and received his MFA from University of Hawai‘i. He is a Core Writer at Playwrights’ Center, a Playwrights Realm writing fellow, and has developed work with Ojai Playwrights Conference, EST/Youngblood, Kennedy Center, Space on Ryder Farm, among others. Currently, he’s under commission from Manhattan Theatre Club’s Sloan Initiative. Plays include We Borrowed Brokenness (Alliance Theatre Kendeda Playwriting Award Finalist, O’Neill Finalist), The Book of Mountains and Seas (Lambda Award, Edinburgh Fringe), June is The First Fall (Yangtze Rep, Original Works Publishing), Joker (Po’okela Award, Kumu Kahua Theatre), Flood in The Valley, a Bilingual Folk Musical (Beijing Tianqiao Theatre Center, Gung Ho Project), PrEP Play, or Blue Parachute (NCTC), and Good Enemy (Audible, Ojai Playwrights Festival).