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Yilong is a New York-based bilingual playwright and screenwriter, originally from Chongqing, China. Currently, he is a resident writer at The Flea Theatre and a proud member of Ensemble Studio Theatre's Obie Award-winning playwrights group Youngblood.
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). 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: BNU. MFA: UHM. Click here for Yilong's New Play Exchange page. |
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CURRENT:
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
THE BOOK OF MOUNTAINS AND SEAS, New Conservatory Theatre Center, March 6 - April 5, 2020
PAST:
Sailors on the A Train, The Flea Theatre, SERIALS Cycle 50, Mar.7 -9, 2019
June is The First Fall, Kumu Kahua Theatre, Honolulu, Nov. 8 - Dec.9, 201
The Book of Mountains and Seas, reading, Urban Stages, July 26th, 2018
And Then There Were None, Union Theatre (London), July 2018
The Book of Mountains and Seas, reading, CAATA, Chicago, August 2018
Flood in The Valley - A Bilingual Folk Musical, Tianqiao Performing Arts Center, Beijing, September 2018
SPACE on Ryder Farm, Residency, October 2018
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
THE BOOK OF MOUNTAINS AND SEAS, New Conservatory Theatre Center, March 6 - April 5, 2020
PAST:
Sailors on the A Train, The Flea Theatre, SERIALS Cycle 50, Mar.7 -9, 2019
June is The First Fall, Kumu Kahua Theatre, Honolulu, Nov. 8 - Dec.9, 201
The Book of Mountains and Seas, reading, Urban Stages, July 26th, 2018
And Then There Were None, Union Theatre (London), July 2018
The Book of Mountains and Seas, reading, CAATA, Chicago, August 2018
Flood in The Valley - A Bilingual Folk Musical, Tianqiao Performing Arts Center, Beijing, September 2018
SPACE on Ryder Farm, Residency, October 2018
