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 under commissions from Audible's Emerging Playwrights Fund and EST/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science & Technology Project. A proud member of Ensemble Studio Theatre's Obie Award-winning playwrights group Youngblood. Alumni of The Flea Theatre's Writers Room and SPACE on Ryder Farm.

His works include The Book of Mountains and Seas (Kennedy Center Paul Stephen Lim Playwriting Award, upcoming: New Conservatory Theatre Center), 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), Flood in The Valley, a Bilingual Folk Musical  (Beijing Tianqiao Theatre Center, Gung Ho Project). 

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