Lauren Yee
is a playwright, screenwriter and TV writer born and raised in San Francisco. She currently lives in New York City. Her Cambodian Rock Band, with music by Dengue Fever and others, premiered at South Coast Repertory, with subsequent productions at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, Victory Gardens Theater, City Theatre, Merrimack Repertory Theatre and Signature Theatre. Her play The Great Leap has been produced at Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Seattle Rep, Atlantic Theater Company, Guthrie Theater, American Conservatory Theater, Arts Club Theatre Company, InterAct Theatre Company, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Pasadena Playhouse/East West Players and Cygnet Theatre. Yee's play King of the Yees premiered at Goodman Theatre and Center Theatre Group, followed by productions at ACT Theatre, Canada's National Arts Centre and Baltimore Center Stage. Other plays include Ching Chong Chinaman (Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, Theater Mu), The Hatmaker's Wife (The Playwrights Realm, MOXIE Theatre, PlayPenn), Hookman (Encore Theatre, Company One Theatre), In a Word (Young Vic, San Francisco Playhouse, Cleveland Public Theatre, Strawdog Theatre Company), Samsara (Victory Gardens Theater), The Song of Summer (Trinity Repertory Company, Mixed Blood Theatre) and The Tiger Among Us (Theater Mu). She is the winner of the Doris Duke Artist Award, the Steinberg Playwright Award, the Horton Foote Prize, the Kesselring Prize, the ATCA/Steinberg Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters literature award and the Francesca Primus Prize. She has been a finalist for the Edward M. Kennedy Prize and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Her plays were the #1 and #2 plays on the 2017 Kilroys List. Yee is a Residency 5 playwright at Signature Theatre, New Dramatists member (class of 2027), Ma-Yi Writers Lab member, former Princeton University Hodder fellow and Playwrights Realm alumni playwright. Current commissions include Arena Stage, Geffen Playhouse, La Jolla Playhouse, Second Stage and South Coast Repertory. She has been a writer on "Pachinko" (Apple TV), "Soundtrack" (Netflix), "Clipped" (FX), "Billions" (Showtime) and "Interior Chinatown" (Hulu). She has developed work for Apple TV and Netflix. BA: Yale. MFA: UCSD. www.laurenyee.com
