Zhu Yi
Lecturer of Playwriting
ZHU Yi is a New York-based playwright from Shanghai. Her work has been produced and published in various languages around the world. She received the First Prize at 2015 World Sinophone Drama Competition, and Shanghai Drama Valley’s 2015 Outstanding Playwright of the Year Award. She is an alumni of Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Obie Award-winning playwrights group Youngblood, Emerging Artist Fellow at New York Theatre Workshop, the Royal Court Theatre’s International Playwrights Programme, and Clubbed Thumb’s Emerging Writers Group, and a member of Ma-Yi Writers Lab.
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Stage plays include You Never Touched the Dirt (Clubbed Thumb’s Summerwork, NYC; China Grand Theater; Edinburgh International Festival, UK), I Am a Moon (National Performing Arts Center, China; Theater Emory, Atlanta, GA), I Know You (National Theatre of Ireland), How Time Flies (National Theatre of China), A Deal (Urban Stages, NYC), Holy Crab! (Wellspring Theater, Taiwan; Círculo de Tiza, Mexico), Apene i Himalaya (Hålogaland Teater, Norway), It Rained on Shakopee (The Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra, Duluth, MN), Long Life (Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center, China), Long Distance Affair (Bienal Arte Joven Buenos Aires, Argentina; Edinburgh Festival Fringe, UK).