Liqing Xu

Liqing Xu

Liqing is a playwright and screenwriter. Their work has been developed/presented by Theater Mu, Second Stage, the María Irene Fornés Institute Writers Workshop, The Orchard Project, the Sewanee Writers' Conference (as a Walter E. Dakin Fellow), and Breaking the Binary Festival, among others. They are a proud inaugural member of the Mu Tang Clan. Liqing is a Semi-Finalist for the 2022-2023 Princess Grace...
Liqing is a playwright and screenwriter. Their work has been developed/presented by Theater Mu, Second Stage, the María Irene Fornés Institute Writers Workshop, The Orchard Project, the Sewanee Writers' Conference (as a Walter E. Dakin Fellow), and Breaking the Binary Festival, among others. They are a proud inaugural member of the Mu Tang Clan. Liqing is a Semi-Finalist for the 2022-2023 Princess Grace Award and the 2022-2024 WP Lab. Currently, she is based in Minneapolis as a Playwrights' Center 2022-2023 Many Voices Fellow. BFA: NYU, Film and Television. MFA: Hunter College, Playwriting. Born and raised in Northern California, they are often between Los Angeles and New York.

Plays

  • SKINLESS by Liqing Xu
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: fable/folktale, fantasy
    Genre: fable/folktale, fantasy
    SKINLESS re-imagines Chinese legend The White Snake as a queer gender-bending fairy tale.
  • YELLOW MIRRORS by Liqing Xu
    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: dark comedy, mystery/thriller
    Genre: dark comedy, mystery/thriller
    A hybrid dark comedy/mystery-noir about intergenerational trauma in the lives of two Chinese-American sisters.
  • YELLOW DREAM$ by Liqing Xu
    Recommendations: 4
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    Cast: 
    9
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    Genre: dark comedy, musical + 1 more
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    Keyword: Hollywood, racism + 1 more
    Genre: dark comedy, musical, satire
    Keyword: Hollywood, racism, capitalism
    YELLOW DREAM$ is a dark comedy with music that follows an aspiring Asian-American producer on her quest to diversify the white imagination of Hollywood.
  • YELLOW FEVER by Liqing Xu
    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama
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    Keyword: yellow fever
    Genre: dark comedy, drama
    Keyword: yellow fever
    YELLOW FEVER is a dark comedy about love, identity, and the racial politics of desire within the local Chinese and foreign populations of Shanghai, China.