East Asian

Lloyd Suh

Representative Plays:

The Chinese Lady (2019)

Bio:

Lloyd Suh is the author of The Chinese Lady, Charles Francis Chan Jr.'s Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery, American Hwangap, The Wong Kids in the Secret of the Space Chupacabra Go!, Jesus in India, and others, produced with Ma-Yi, Magic Theatre, EST, NAATCO, PlayCo, Denver Center, Milwaukee Rep, ArtsEmerson, Children's Theatre Co, and more, including internationally at the Cultural Center of the Philippines and with PCPA in Seoul, Korea. He has received...

Naomi Iizuka

Representative Plays:

17 Reasons (Why) (2003)

36 Views (2000)

Language of Angels (2000)

Polaroid Stories (1997)

Bio:

Naomi Iizuka. Naomi Iizuka's most recent play, 17 Reasons (Why), was produced at Campo Santo + Intersection for the Arts and published by Stage and Screen in the anthology Breaking Ground: Adventurous Plays By Adventurous Theatres, edited by Kent Nicholson. Her other plays include 36 Views; Polaroid Stories; Language of Angels; War of the Worlds (written in collaboration...

Wakako Yamauchi

Representative Plays:

The Chairman’s Wife (1993)
The Music Lessons (1993)
12-1-A (1982)
And the Soul Shall Dance (1977)

Bio:

Wakako Yamauchi (1924–2018) was a distinguished playwright, short-story writer, poet and painter. When she was seventeen years old, she and her family were incarcerated at Poston concentration camp in Arizona. Yamauchi's work...

Velina Hasu Houston

Representative Plays:

Kokoro (True Heart) (2011)
Tea (1988)

Biography:

Velina Hasu Houston is an internationally celebrated writer with over twenty-eight commissions in theatre and opera. In New York, U.S. nationwide, and globally in Asia and Europe, her work has been produced to critical acclaim at prestigious theatres. She was the first-ever Playwright-in-Residence at The Pasadena Playhouse, State Theatre of California; and a Fulbright Scholar (Fulbright project, Aoyama Gakuin Daigaku, Tokyo, Japan). Honored by The...

Rick Shiomi

Representative Plays:

Rosie’s Cafe (1987)
Yellow Fever (1982)

Bio:

Rick Shiomi is a Toronto-born theatre artist now based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and a leader in early Asian Canadian theatre movement in the 1980s. He credits his time spent in Vancouver in the 1970s, working with the Powell Street Festival in its early years, and later with the Redress movement, as what gave him the fuel for his early work as a playwright, including his first play, the award-winning Yellow Fever, premiered in San...

Ping Chong

Representative Plays:

Pojagi (1999)
After Sorrow (1997)
Chinoiserie (1995)
Deshima (1990)

Bio:

Ping Chong is an internationally acclaimed director, playwright, and pioneer in the use of media in the theater. A recipient of a USA Artist Fellowship, two BESSIE awards, and two OBIE awards, his work has been presented at major festivals and theatres around the world. Recent productions include Throne of Blood (Oregon Shakespeare Festival, BAM), and Cathay: Three...

Mike Lew

Representative Plays:

Teenage Dick (2019)
Tiger Style! (2019)
Bhangin’ On It (2018)

Bio:

Mike Lew’s plays include Teenage Dick (Donmar Warehouse, Wooly Mammoth, Ma-Yi at the Public, and Artists Rep productions; Public Studio, O’Neill, OSF workshops), Tiger Style! (Olney, Huntington, La Jolla Playhouse, and Alliance productions; O’Neill and CTG workshops), Bike America (Ma-Yi and Alliance productions), microcrisis (Ma-Yi, InterAct, and Next Act...

Lauren Yee

Representative Plays:

Cambodian Rock Band (2018)
The Great Leap (2018)

Bio:

Lauren Yee is a playwright born and raised in San Francisco. She lives in New York City. She received her bachelor’s degree from Yale University and her MFA in playwriting from UCSD. Lauren’s work includes King of the Yees, The Great Leap, Cambodian Rock Band, Ching Chong Chinaman, The Hatmaker’s Wife, and others. She has been a Dramatists Guild Fellow, a MacDowell Fellow, and a MAP Fund grantee....

Julia Cho

Representative Plays:

Office Hour (2018)
The Language Archive (2012)
The Piano Teacher (2008)
Durango (2008)
The Winchester House (2006)
The Architecture of Loss (2005)
99 Histories (2005)

Bio:

Julia Cho’s plays include DURANGO, THE WINCHESTER HOUSE, BFE, THE ARCHITECTURE OF LOSS, and 99 HISTORIES. Her work has been produced at The Vineyard Theatre, The Public Theater, Long Wharf Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, South Coast Repertory, New York Theatre Workshop,...

Philip Kan Gotanda

Representative Plays:

Under the Rainbow: Natalie Wood is Dead, White Manifesto or Got Rice? (2005)
Yankee Dawg You Die (1988)

Bio:

Philip Kan Gotanda is the author of one of the largest canon of Asian-American-themed-work. Based in San Francisco, CA, Gotanda is not only a playwright but a director, musician, composer, filmmaker, actor, teacher, and author as well. While he tends to focus on the Asian American experience, Gotanda aims to share stories of all people and experiences. Especially stories where the boundaries...