Lauren D. Yee

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  Giving young Bay Area playwrights the opportunity to develop their work is the goal of the San Francisco Young Playwrights Foundation, created in 2005 by Lauren Yee.
  
  The author of over a dozen plays that have been produced for festivals and theaters around the world, Yee knew first-hand the benefits of gaining early writing experience. In high school and later as a Yale University student, she won awards and recognition from the California Young Playwrights Festival to the Florida Teen Playwright Festival. But despite the many programs available in her hometown of San Francisco for teen performers, Yee saw a lack of opportunities for students to hone their skills writing for the stage.
  
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  Published on: 4/4/2007    Last Visited: 4/4/2007  

  -- Lauren YeeView Spark segment on the San Francisco Young Playwrights Festival.Original airdate: July 2006. (Running Time: 8:14)
  
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  Giving young Bay Area playwrights the opportunity to develop their work is the goal of the San Francisco Young Playwrights Foundation, created in 2005 by Lauren Yee.The author of more than a dozen plays, which have been produced for festivals and theaters around the world, Yee knew firsthand the benefits of gaining early writing experience.In high school and later as a Yale University student, she won awards and gained recognition from events ranging from the California Young Playwrights Festival to the Florida Teen Playwright Festival.But despite the many programs available for teen performers in her hometown of San Francisco, there was a lack of opportunities for students to hone their skills in writing for the stage.
  
  In 2001, as a student at Lowell High School, Yee founded the entirely student-run Youth for Asian Theater.A few years later, she decided it was time for a citywide festival, and in May 2006, she inaugurated the first San Francisco Young Playwrights Festival at the Diego Rivera Theater, City College of San Francisco.

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  Published on: 8/8/2007    Last Visited: 8/9/2007  

  550 29th Ave, San Francisco, CA 94121 MapYouth for Asian Theater (YFAT) was founded in Summer 2001 by executive director Lauren D. Yee.Lauren noticed that there was a significant lack of opportunities...More about Youth for Asian Theater

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  Published on: 1/1/2004    Last Visited: 7/21/2009  

  Director: Lauren Yee '07

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  Published on: 2/2/2009    Last Visited: 10/1/2009  

  But in Mu Performing Arts' premiere production of Lauren Yee's uproarious new comedy Ching Chong Chinaman, playing February 14 - March 1 at Mixed Blood Theatre, Upton Wong discovers that the answer is easy, even if the consequences turn his family on its head.
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  For playwright Yee, the story is not just about an Asian American family discovering its roots.
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  As Yee observes, "there are Asian American families out there so removed from their culture that in every other way, they could be considered strictly 'American.'" The Wongs' attempts at making Upton's Chinese "slave" feel at home with a barrage of familiar stereotypes simultaneously make fun of and poignantly demonstrate their ignorance of their own Asian heritage. "[They think] the phrases 'ching chong' and 'chinaman' are acceptable because they themselves are Asian American, yet at the same time, this act of attempting to 'own' these racist phrases demonstrates their gross lack of understanding of their own culture."
  
  Through the comic misadventures of the Wongs, Yee brings a deeper question to life in Ching Chong Chinaman: "Is ethnicity such a conspicuous marker that it will always be of note?"
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  Lauren Yee is a 2008/09 Dramatists Guild fellow, a 2009 MacDowell Colony fellow, and a member of the 2009 Public Theater Emerging Writers Group. She has been a finalist for the Djerassi Resident Artist Program, the Humana Festival's Heideman Award, and the Jerome Fellowship (multiyear).
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  Lauren is a member of the Dramatists Guild and a recent graduate of Yale University.
  
  What: Ching Chong Chinaman by Lauren Yee, directed by Jennifer Weir.

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  Rife with magical realism and blithely inappropriate Asian-on-Asian stereotyping, twentysomething local playwright Lauren Yee gave Impact's season a thunderous start with her comedic portrait of the all-American Wong family: the affably clueless dad, the aimless mom, the teen daughter stressing over her lack of colorful roots for her Princeton application, and the son who's had the bright idea to obtain a Chinese indentured servant to do his homework and chores so he can play video games all day.

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  Published on: 3/8/2007    Last Visited: 3/8/2007  

  Written by San Francisco playwright Lauren D. Yee, it's a motivational lecture by two white people about how to, says Cianciotto, "get over your fear of black people."

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  Rife with magical realism and blithely inappropriate Asian-on-Asian stereotyping, twentysomething local playwright Lauren Yee gave Impact's season a thunderous start with her comedic portrait of the all-American Wong family: the affably clueless dad, the aimless mom, the teen daughter stressing over her lack of colorful roots for her Princeton application, and the son who's had the bright idea to obtain a Chinese indentured servant to do his homework and chores so he can play video games all day.
  
  4. Uncle Vanya, California Shakespeare Theater.

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  Published on: 8/12/2007    Last Visited: 8/12/2007  

  Lauren Yee, playwright
  
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