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Yilong Liu is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter based in New York. His play The Book of Mountains and Seas received the Lambda Literary Award for Drama and was recognized at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with the BBC Popcorn Writing Award. His play Good Enemy premiered Off-Broadway at Audible Theater’s Minetta Lane Theatre. Yilong has been a Core Writer at the Playwrights' Center, a Playwrights Realm Writing Fellow, a Dramatists Guild Foundation Playwriting Fellow, and a member of Youngblood and the BMI Musical Theatre Bookwriting Workshop. His residencies include SPACE on Ryder Farm, Project YZ, WildWind, and the PlayCo & Sala Beckett Playwright Residency Exchange. His work has been developed and produced internationally with Ensemble Studio Theatre, Ojai Playwrights Conference, New York Theatre Workshop, Alliance Theatre, Kennedy Center, National Queer Theatre, among others. He is a graduate of The Juilliard School and is currently under commission from Audible Theater and Manhattan Theatre Club. Yilong’s work extends across theater and screen. He wrote the feature adaptation of Fortunate Sons for Academy Award–winning producer Donna Gigliotti, and his original pilot Everything I Learned in America, I Learned on Grindr was selected for the Orchard Project Episodic Lab. A proud member of The Dramatists Guild of America and The Writers Guild of America. When he’s not writing, he’s often cooking, people-watching, or on a mission to meet all the bodega cats in New York City. “A serious mind, an inventive spirit, and a goofball heart.” — The New York Times
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