Lauren Yee's play KING OF THE YEES premiered this past season at The Goodman Theatre and Center Theatre Group. Upcoming: CAMBODIAN ROCK BAND, a play with music by Dengue Fever, at South Coast Rep; THE GREAT LEAP at Denver Center, Seattle Rep, New York Stage and Film, and Atlantic Theatre Company; and KING OF THE YEES at ACT Theatre and Canada's National Arts Centre. Other plays include CHING CHONG CHINAMAN (Pan Asian, Mu Performing Arts), THE HATMAKER'S WIFE (Playwrights Realm, Moxie, PlayPenn), HOOKMAN (Encore, Company One), IN A WORD (SF Playhouse, Cleveland Public, Strawdog), SAMSARA (Victory Gardens, O'Neill Conference, Bay Area Playwrights Festival), and THE TIGER AMONG US (MAP Fund, Mu).

She was a Dramatists Guild fellow, a MacDowell fellow, a MAP Fund grantee, a member of The Public Theater’s Emerging Writers Group, a Time Warner Fellow at the Women’s Project Playwrights Lab, the Shank playwright-in-residence at Second Stage Theatre, a Playwrights’ Center Core Writer, and the Page One resident playwright at Playwrights Realm. IN A WORD won the Francesca Primus Prize and was a finalist for the ATCA/Steinberg Award. THE HATMAKER'S WIFE was an Outer Critics Circle nominee for the John Gassner Award for best play by a new American playwright. Her work has been published by Samuel French.

Member of the Ma-Yi Writers' Lab. Commissions: Geffen Playhouse, Lincoln Center/LCT3, Mixed Blood, Portland Center Stage, and Trinity Rep. BA: Yale. MFA: UCSD. laurenyee.com