​Yilong is a Lambda Literary Award winning playwright based in New York. He grew up in China and received his MFA from University of Hawai‘i. Yilong is a Core Writer at Playwrights’ Center and has developed work with Ojai Playwrights Conference, EST/Youngblood, Kennedy Center, Space on Ryder Farm, among others. Other awards include Kennedy Center's Paula Vogel Playwriting Award and Paul Stephen Lim Playwriting Award. Currently, he is under commissions from Audible's Emerging Playwrights Fund and EST/Sloan Project. 

His works include The Book of Mountains and Seas (Lambda Literary Award, New Conservatory Theatre Center), June is The First Fall (Yangtze Rep, Original Works Publishing), Joker (Po’okela Award for Best New Play, Kumu Kahua Theatre, FringeNYC, National Queer Theatre), Flood in The Valley, a Bilingual Folk Musical (Beijing Tianqiao Theatre Center, Gung Ho Project), PrEP Play, or Blue Parachute (upcoming rolling premieres), and Good Enemy (Audible, Ojai Playwrights Festival).

When he’s not writing, he’s usually cooking, people watching, or compulsively liking cat pics on Instagram. 
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Click here for Yilong's New Play Exchange page. 
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Photo by Ben Allen
WHAT'S NEW:
PrEP PLAY, OR BLUE PARACHUTE, upcoming at New Conservatory Theatre Center, 2022
THE BOOK OF MOUNTAINS AND SEAS is the winner of the 2020 LAMBDA Literary Award for Drama
Residency, SPACE on Ryder Farm, May 2021
GOOD ENEMY, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, June 2021
GOOD ENEMY, Ojai Playwright Conference, August 2021
JUNE IS THE FIRST FALL is published by Original Works Publishing
THE BOOK OF MOUNTAINS AND SEAS, New Conservatory Theatre Center, March 6 - April 5, 2020 - Cancelled