Lauren Yee

Lauren Yee

Playwright, Cambodian Rock Band

Other plays: The Great Leap, King of the Yees, The Song of Summer, Ching Chong Chinaman, The Hatmaker’s Wife, Hookman, in a word, Samsara, The Tiger Among Us.

Other theatres: South Coast Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Victory Gardens, Denver Center, Seattle Repertory, Atlantic Theatre, Guthrie, Arts Club, InterAct Theatre, Trinity Rep, The Goodman Theatre, Center Theatre Group, ACT Theatre, Canada’s National Arts Centre, Baltimore Center Stage, Pan Asian, Mu Performing Arts, Playwrights Realm, SF Playhouse.

Awards: Horton Foote Prize, Kesselring Prize and and Francesca Primus Prize. Hodder fellow at Princeton University. #1 and #2 plays on the 2017 Kilroys List. Finalist for Edward M. Kennedy Prize, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and ATCA/Steinberg Award. She is currently under commission from the Geffen Playhouse, La Jolla Playhouse, Second Stage Theatre, and South Coast Rep. Member of New Dramatists and the Ma-Yi Writers’ Lab.

Film/TV: Mixtape (Netflix).

Education: BA, Yale University. MFA, U.C. San Diego.