Lauren Yee

Playwright

Lauren Yee is a playwright, screenwriter, and TV writer born and raised in San Francisco. 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. Lauren 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, South Coast Rep.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