Max Yu is a first-generation Chinese-American playwright from the San Francisco Bay Area. He moved from Shanghai and is now based in New York. His play NIGHTWATCH won the 2019 Relentless Award, was a finalist for the Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship, and was selected for the 2022 O’Neill Playwriting Conference. He is a current member of Ma-Yi Writers Lab. He was a member of Orchard Project’s Audio Lab, Gingold Theatrical Group’s Speakers’ Corner, and Page 73’s 2021-22 Interstate 73 Writers Group. He is currently under commission from the New York State Council of the Arts (NYSCA) and Atlantic Theater Company. His plays that have been workshopped and developed include MADE IN CHINATOWN (Atlantic Theater Company, Page 73), WANDERING (New York Theatre Workshop), CALL ME COMRADE (Gingold...
Max Yu is a first-generation Chinese-American playwright from the San Francisco Bay Area. He moved from Shanghai and is now based in New York. His play NIGHTWATCH won the 2019 Relentless Award, was a finalist for the Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship, and was selected for the 2022 O’Neill Playwriting Conference. He is a current member of Ma-Yi Writers Lab. He was a member of Orchard Project’s Audio Lab, Gingold Theatrical Group’s Speakers’ Corner, and Page 73’s 2021-22 Interstate 73 Writers Group. He is currently under commission from the New York State Council of the Arts (NYSCA) and Atlantic Theater Company. His plays that have been workshopped and developed include MADE IN CHINATOWN (Atlantic Theater Company, Page 73), WANDERING (New York Theatre Workshop), CALL ME COMRADE (Gingold Theatrical Group), NIGHTWATCH (O'Neill, Goodman Theatre), DISTANCE ABANDONED (Second Generation Productions), and DRAGONFLY (American Playwriting Foundation). He has taught playwriting at the National Theater Institute. His poetry and prose have been published in China in Spittoon and Babel. He is represented by 3 Arts Entertainment. He received his B.A. in Theater from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he studied playwriting under Sylvan Oswald. You can find him at @maxyuliang and www.maxyu.carrd.co