Chay Yew -
Chay Yew's plays include
Porcelain, A Language of Their Own, Red, A Beautiful
Country, and Wonderland. His other words include
Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba (adaptation) and
Home: Places Between Asia and America (performance).
His plays have been produced throughout the world, including
productions at the New York Shakespeare Festival's Public Theater,
Royal Court Theater (London), Mark Taper Forum, Manhattan Theater
Club, Long Wharf Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Intiman Theatre,
Portland Center Stage, Cornerstone Theatre, East West Players,
Dallas Theatre Center, Studio Theatre, Group Theatre, and TheatreWorks
(Singapore), among others. For his plays, Yew has received
the London Fringe Award, George and Elisabeth Marton Playwriting
Award, GLAAD Media Award, APGF's Community Visibility Award,
and the Robert Chesley Award. Yew is also the recipient of
grants from the McKnight Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,
TCG/Pew Charitable Trusts and the National Endowment for the
Arts. His plays, published by the Grove Press, were nominated
for the Lambda Literary Award for Drama. He has also held residencies
at the Northwest Asian American Theatre and East West Players.
Chay Yew's recent
production of The Laramie Project at the Empty Space
Theatre in Seattle was cited by the Seattle Times and
The Stranger as one of the best achievements in theatre
of 2001; he was also named best director by the Seattle
Post-Intelligencer. His other credits include Red
(Los Angeles Times' Top Ten Productions of 2001), Golden
Child (Los Angeles Times' and New Times' Top Ten Productions
of 2000), Sisters Matsumoto, Pointless and
Big Hunk O' Burnin' Love (East West Players); Red
(Singapore Repertory Theatre); A Beautiful Country
(Cornerstone Theatre Company); I Remember Mampa (Mark Taper
Forum, East West Players, Magic Theatre, Northwest Asian American
Theatre); Margaret Cho's Mondo Cho, Sandra Tsing Loh's
Depth Becomes Her, Alec Mapa's Drama!; James Sie's
Talking With My Hands and Wei Jinsheng's The Courage
To Stand Alone (Mark taper Forum); The House of Bernarda
Alba (National Asian American Theatre Company); David Schmader's
Straight (Highway performance Space; Theatre Rhinoceros;
(Northwest Asian American Theatre Company); Denise Uyehara's
Maps of BDY and City (Highways Performance
Space); Home Places Between Asia and America (NWAAT).
He is also the recipient of the Drama-Lounge Award for Best
Direction.
A member of the New Dramatists and
the Dramatists Guild, Yew is the Director of the Taper's Asian
Theatre Workshop, and the Artistic Director of Northwest Asian
American Theatre/The Black Box in Seattle.
Ainadamar —
2003 Next Wave Festival