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 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.

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.

Scripts

SKINLESS

by Liqing Xu

Cast Size
4
Genre
fable/folktale,
fantasy

SKINLESS re-imagines Chinese legend The White Snake as a queer gender-bending fairy tale.

SKINLESS re-imagines Chinese legend The White Snake as a queer gender-bending fairy tale.

YELLOW MIRRORS

by Liqing Xu

Cast Size
6
Genre
dark comedy,
mystery/thriller

A hybrid dark comedy/mystery-noir about intergenerational trauma in the lives of two Chinese-American sisters.

A hybrid dark comedy/mystery-noir about intergenerational trauma in the lives of two Chinese-American sisters.

YELLOW DREAM$

by Liqing Xu

4
Cast Size
9
Genre
dark comedy,
musical,
satire

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 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

1
Cast Size
6
Genre
dark comedy,
drama

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.

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.