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American playwright
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Lauren Yee
OccupationPlaywright
EducationYale University (BA)
University of California, San Diego (MFA)
SpouseZachery Zwillinger
Website
laurenyee.com

Lauren Yee (Chinese: 余秀菊) 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.

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.

Career

Yee is a member of the Ma-Yi Writers’ Lab, a Playwrights’ Center Core Writer, And has worked under commission from the Goodman Theatre, Lincoln Center, and Mixed Blood.

Personal life

Yee met an attorney named Zachary Zwillinger at Yale. The couple later married at San Francisco in September 2012.

Plays

  • Ching Chong Chinaman (Berkeley Impact Theatre)
  • Crevice (Impact Theatre)
  • The Tiger Among Us (January - February 2013, Mu Performing Arts (Minneapolis)
  • The Hatmakers Wife (developed at PlayPenn New Play Conference in 2011; August 27, 2013 - September 21, 2013, Off-Broadway The Playwrights Realm)
  • Samsara (February 2015 - March 8, Chicago)
  • in a word (April 2015, San Francisco Playhouse)
  • Hookman (May 2015, Encore Theatre Company, San Francisco)
  • King of the Yees (2015, The Goodman Theatre's New Stages Festival)
  • The Great Leap (2018, Off-Broadway)
  • Cambodian Rock Band (2018, South Coast Repertory)
  • The Song of Summer (2019, Trinity Repertory Company)
  • Young Americans (2023, Portland Center Stage/Pittsburgh Public Theater)

Awards and honors

The awards/honors are in reverse chronological order.

2019

  • Doris Duke Performing Artist Award
  • Steinberg Playwright Award, with a cash award of $50,000.
  • Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award for Cambodian Rock Band, which includes a $25,000 prize.
  • Whiting Award in Drama
  • Signature Theatre Company (New York City) Residency 5 program. The program "guarantees playwrights three premieres over five years."

2018

  • Horton Foote Prize for Outstanding New American Play for Cambodian Rock Band.
  • Susan Smith Blackburn Prize finalist for The Great Leap
  • Princeton University MacKall Gwinn Hodder Fellows for the 2018–2019 academic year.

2017

2016

  • Will Glickman Playwright Award winner (for in a word)
  • Ashland New Plays Festival – Women's Invitational winner (for King of the Yees)
  • Francesca Primus Prize from the American Theatre Critics Association

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
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)

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