Yilong is a New York-based bilingual playwright and screenwriter, originally from Chongqing, China. He is a Kennedy Center Paula Vogel Playwriting Award winner and was recently named one of the Ten Contemporary Asian and Pacific Islander American Playwrights You Should Know by ArtsBoston. Currently, he is a proud member of Ensemble Studio Theatre's Obie Award-winning playwrights group Youngblood and serves as a mentor for NYFA's Immigrant Artists Mentoring Program. An alumni of The Flea Theatre's Writers Room and SPACE on Ryder Farm.

Plays include The Book of Mountains and Seas (Kennedy Center Paul Stephen Lim Playwriting Award, upcoming: New Conservatory Theatre Center), Curb (EST/Sloan New Play Commission, Berkeley Rep Ground Floor finalist), June is The First Fall (Kennedy Center Paula Vogel Playwriting Award, Kumu Kahua Theatre, Yangtze Rep/New Ohio Theatre), Joker (Po’okela Award for Best New Play, Kumu Kahua Theatre, FringeNYC, National Queer Theatre). He is the co-writer of Flood in The Valley (Beijing Tianqiao Theatre Center), a bilingual musical set in Appalachia and Sichuan.

When he’s not writing, he’s usually Netflixing, people watching, or compulsively liking cat pics on Instagram. BA: Beijing Normal University. MFA: University of Hawaii. 

Click here for Yilong's New Play Exchange page. 

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UPCOMING:
THE BOOK OF MOUNTAINS AND SEAS, New Conservatory Theatre Center, March 6 - April 5, 2020

JUST MISSED:
JUNE IS THE FIRST FALL, New Ohio Theatre/Yangtze Rep, Mar 31 - Apr 20, 2019
JOKER, IRT Theater/NQT, Criminal Queerness Festival (World Pride), July 3-6, 2019
JUNE IS THE FIRST FALL, Kumu Kahua Theatre, Honolulu, Nov. 8 - Dec.9, 201​8
FLOOD IN THE VALLEY - A Bilingual Folk Musical, Tianqiao Performing Arts Center, Beijing, September 2018