STAGE TUBE: Playwright Lauren Yee Visits Kansas City for DGF's Traveling Masters Program

Playwright Lauren Yee (King Of The Yees, The Hatmaker's Wife) recently visited Kansas City, MO to lead workshops with writers as part of the Dramatists Guild Fund's Traveling Masters Program. Click below to watch her in action and hear her speak!

The Dramatists Guild Fund's Traveling Masters Program is a national outreach program that brings prominent dramatists into communities across the country to lead master classes, workshops, talkbacks, and other public events. In partnership with leading regional theaters and universities, Traveling Master creates local programming that gives writers, theater professionals, and the public first-hand experience with these renowned artists.

"I think it is important and refreshing to connect with theatermakers in all parts of the country. The Dramatists Guild Fund has made it possible for playwrights like me to connect to communities I would not have been able to otherwise," Yee said.

Yee's plays include Ching Chong Chinaman (Pan Asian, Mu Performing Arts, Sis Productions, Impact Theatre), Crevice (Impact), The Hatmaker's Wife (Playwrights Realm, The Hub, Moxie Theatre, Altertheater, Playpenn), Hookman (Encore Theatre, Company One), In A Word (SF Playhouse, Cleveland Public Theatre, Strawdog, The Hub), King Of The Yees (Goodman Theatre - New Stages), Samsara (Victory Gardens, Chance Theatre, O'Neill Conference, Bay Area Playwrights Festival), And The Tiger Among Us (Map Fund, Mu).

Her work has also been developed at Lincoln Center/LCT3, The Public Theater, Second Stage, Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, Center Stage, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Kitchen Dog, the Magic Theatre, and others. Former Dramatists Guild Fellow, MacDowell Colony fellow, Public Theater Emerging Writers Group member, Women's Project Lab playwright, Second Stage Shank playwright-in-residence, and Playwrights Realm Page One resident playwright.

Her play Samsara was nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and the L. Arnold Weissberger Award. Her play The Hatmaker's Wife was an Outer Critics Circle nominee for the John Gassner Award for best play by a new American playwright.

She is currently a member of the Ma-Yi Writers' Lab and a Playwrights' Center Core Writer. Lauren is also under commission from the Denver Center, Lincoln Center/LCT3, Mixed Blood, New World Symphony, Portland Center Stage, South Coast Rep, and Trinity Rep. BA: Yale. MFA: UCSD. For more on Lauren, visit www.laurenyee.com.

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