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Yilong is a New York-based bilingual playwright and screenwriter, originally from Chongqing, China. He is a Kennedy Center Paula Vogel Playwriting Award winner, a Lambda Literary 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, a Core Writer at Playwrights Center, and a two-time resident of SPACE on Ryder Farm.
His works include The Book of Mountains and Seas (Kennedy Center Paul Stephen Lim Playwriting Award, New Conservatory Theatre Center), June is The First Fall (Kumu Kahua Theatre, Yangtze Rep/New Ohio Theatre, 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. 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 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
JUST MISSED:
THE BOOK OF MOUNTAINS AND SEAS, New Conservatory Theatre Center, March 6 - April 5, 2020 - Cancelled
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, 2018
FLOOD IN THE VALLEY - A Bilingual Folk Musical, Tianqiao Performing Arts Center, Beijing, September 2018
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
JUST MISSED:
THE BOOK OF MOUNTAINS AND SEAS, New Conservatory Theatre Center, March 6 - April 5, 2020 - Cancelled
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, 2018
FLOOD IN THE VALLEY - A Bilingual Folk Musical, Tianqiao Performing Arts Center, Beijing, September 2018